CCREC Fall 2014/Winter 2015 Newsletter

The Fall 2014/Winter 2015 Newsletter of the Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC) is now available!  See below for a quick overview of its contents.  Click here to access the newsletter.  All CCREC newsletters can be found here.

Fall 2014/Winter 2015 Newsletter Contents:

Featured Advisory Board Member: Victor Rubin, Vice President for Research at PolicyLink in Oakland, CA, on research for equitable and dynamic urban policies.

Featured Fellow: Michael Montoya, Associate Professor at UC Irvine, discusses power, privilege, and the possibilities for community generated knowledge.

Message from the Director, Ron Glass: “The Magical CCREC Crew”

CCREC Highlights:

Increasing capacity for collaborative research and developing the next generation of engaged scholars through CCREC’s first annual Collaborative Research Training Institute (August 2014);

On November 14 and 15, 2014, in Santa Cruz, CCREC hosted ”Generating Knowledge and Building Democratic Power with Community-Based Research and Digital Media” an invitational conference for about 100 community-based researchers and activists to discuss praxis and theory;

Work is underway on the casebook resource to guide students, researchers, community partners, and research administrators in their deliberation of ethical dilemmas that emerge in collaborative research projects;

CCREC builds continued capacity for research for equity with the addition of new staff members;

CCREC Fellows, Emily Ozer (UC Berkeley) and Jonathan London (UC Davis), make a difference in the California and beyond through community engaged research;

CCREC welcomes new Fellow, Diane Fujino (UC Santa Barbara).