URBAN sessions at the All-In Conference

anaantunes — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 19:41:51 +0000

URBAN will be hosting the Plenary on Wednesday, Oct 27th from 3:30 PM to 5:OO PM at the Resource Center for Non-Violence.

URBAN will also be hosting the Networking Breakfast on Thursday, Oct 28th from 8:OO AM to 9:00 AM at the Stevenson Event Center Courtyard

New Publication by former CCREC colleagues

anaantunes — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 22:14:16 +0000

London et al. “We are about life-changing research” in the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement

Ron Glass & Rebecca London W.T. Grant Foundation blog post

NEW DATE: All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference October 26-28, 2022

anaantunes — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:02:40 +0000

All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice ConferenceOctober 26-28, 2022

Santa Cruz, California

Co-presented by the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz and
Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN)

We are excited to announce that the All-In Conference will take place in Santa Cruz, California, on October 26-28, 2022. The conference brings together university scholars, community-based practitioners and researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, community members and organizations, foundation program officers, organizers, artists, and activists to share stories, strategies, practices, and solutions for action.

The call for proposals is now open! Submission deadline is May 15, 2022.

To apply, please fill out an interest/proposal submission form, including a brief summary of how you or your team would like to participate and what you would like to present. The diverse programming will include invited sessions involving multiple presentations and stakeholders, interactive workshops, performances, and art exhibits. Sessions will be organized thematically, based on abstracts received. Please stay tuned for more information on the conference schedule, location, lodging, and other logistical details.

Students, Organizers, Scholars, Researchers, Foundations, Community Organizations and Research/Action Teams:
Submit your ideas for workshops, presentations, papers, posters, art work or performances addressing how we build truly equitable partnerships for critical collaborative research, action and social justice.

To learn more about the conference and participation, please visit our website!

New Special Issue of Social Sciences

anaantunes — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:57:06 +0000

Edited by Dr. Steve McKey and Dr. Claudia Lopez the Special Issue “New Trends in Community-Engaged Research: Co-producing Knowledge for Justice” in the Social Sciences Journal is now out with many contributions from URBAN folks! All of the articles are open-access, check them out here

YOUTH ACTIVISM through a GLOBAL lens: Join organizers and scholars discussing youth formations in Cameroon, Mexico, the Philippines, and Kenya

anaantunes — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:25:35 +0000

Wed., March 2, 16:30 GMT/11:30am ET.

Free zoom registration here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8bwk6a.

Panelists will be discussing the three NEW articles out today in the Forge: https://t.co/fKF4f0J2i2

The panel is open to all! If you’re interested in learning more about the work of the Democracy Moves International Scholars Network, please reach out to Ben Kirshner (kirshner@colorado.edu).

All-In All-Together

gary.stevens — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:48:41 +0000

All-In All-Together

Community based research navigating the turbulent time and places of political and biological pandemics

We know that the turbulence of our time and places can only be navigated safely when we are ‘all-in’ ‘all-together’ to find creative ways to deploy our resources, resist the ongoing assaults on vulnerable communities, and renew our bonds of connection that sustain us. We invite our growing network(s) of scholars, organizers, community leaders, funders, and students to join a series of virtual events that will provide time/space to deepen our conversations and support one another in our work to strengthen community and university responses to COVID and to racial justice movements.

We are determined to bring our postponed All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice conference to life in the virtual environment as we move toward an in-person gathering as soon as possible in the 2021-2022 academic year. We are launching this series of virtual events with the immediate publication of short ‘case’ videos that document our work (further releases will be ongoing) and a national dialogue on October 23rd, followed by an ongoing series of focused virtual gatherings that will be topical, methodological, and strategic.

Virtual Events

Session 1 – October 23, 2020, 11:00-1:00pm (Pacific time)Event Info

The October 23rd event is a “flipped” style gathering, and registrants are asked to asynchronously view the short video ‘case’ presentations and provide input to the gathering hosts in advance so that our synchronous time together is maximized for fruitful dialogue and engagement for all participants. Subsequent virtual events will enable in-depth explorations of each of the initial ‘cases’ as well as other topics and cases.

We launch our series with an initial set of ‘cases’ meant to help us understand how community-university collaborations are evolving, what community partners need from universities in these times/spaces, what role research can play in the current struggles, what barriers partnerships are facing and what successes have they discovered.

We will explore a collaboration led by formerly incarcerated women, a partnership documenting the impacts of COVID on educational opportunity, a model for integrating university students in strategic research around the sense of connection and belonging of immigrants, and a higher education living/learning community designed for impactful partnerships.Speakers

Ana Antunes, University of Utah

Timothy Eatman, Rutgers University/Newark

Michell Fine, City University of New York (CUNY)

Steve McKay, University of California Santa Cruz

Community partners and co-presenters coming soon.

Research Associate (Post-Doctoral Fellow) – Ph.D. Program in Environmental Psychology in New York, New York

Celina Su — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:19:00 +0000

The GC seeks a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Urban Studies, to be housed in the interdisciplinary Environmental Psychology Ph.D. Program. The Marilyn J. Gittell Post-doctoral Fellowship, established in honor of the late Political Science Professor at the GC, is for a social science Ph.D. working on areas that concerned Marilyn Gittell, especially research focused on cities, urban politics, public policy, democratic and civic engagement, social movements, citizenship and governance, and community practices, both domestically and abroad. This is a 1-year fellowship, with the possibility for one 1-year renewal.

The goal of the Gittell Post-Doctoral Fellowship program is to prepare researchers committed to understanding and addressing critical issues in community-engaged research, especially in urban settings. The Fellow will be expected to articulate and advance a research agenda based in the legacy of Marilyn Gittell’s work and help administer activities sponsored by the Marilyn J. Gittell Endowed Chair in Urban Studies. The Fellow serves in a key leadership and programming position within the Gittell Collective (http://gittellcollective.gc.cuny.edu/), based at the Graduate Center, and in the national URBAN research network (https://urbanresearchnetwork.org/).

See details here.

New Special Issue on Collaborative Research for Justice

Celina Su — Tue, 21 May 2019 13:16:36 +0000

EPAA/AAPE just published a new special issue:

Collaborative Research for Justice and Multi-issue Movement Building: Challenging Discriminatory Policing, School Closures, and Youth Unemployment, guest edited by Ronald David Glass and Mark R. Warren, with guest associate editors Lindsay Morgia and Ben Teresa

Collaborative research for justice and multi-issue movement building: Challenging discriminatory policing, school closures, and youth unemployment [click.e.asu.edu]

Ronald David Glass, Brett G. Stoudt

Collaborative research and multi-issue movement building for educational justice: Reflections on the Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN) [click.e.asu.edu]

Mark R. Warren, Ronald David Glass

Amplifying youth voice and cultivating leadership through participatory action research [click.e.asu.edu]

Rachele Gardner, William M. Snyder, Ayda Zugay

Community-engaged research through the lens of school closures: Opportunities, challenges, contributions, and lingering questions [click.e.asu.edu]

Claudette Agard, Zakiya Ansari, Jerusha Conner, Barbara Ferman, Liza N. Pappas, Jessica Shiller

Researching at the community-university borderlands: Using public science to study policing in the South Bronx [click.e.asu.edu]

Brett G. Stoudt, María Elena Torre, Paul Bartley, Evan Bissell, Fawn Bracy, Hillary Caldwell, Lauren Dewey, Anthony Downs, Cory Greene, Jan Haldipur, Scott Lizama, Prakriti Hassan, Einat Manoff, Nadine Sheppard, Jacqueline Yates

Research, action, activism: Critical solidarities & multi-scalar powers [click.e.asu.edu]

Celina Su

A Multi-Modal Interrogation of Collaborative Research for Justice

Celina Su — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 06:50:05 +0000

This month’s special issue of Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA) was curated by URBAN, and edited by Ronald David Glass and Mark R. Warren. The issue, Collaborative Research for Justice and Multi-Issue Movement Building: Challenging Discriminatory Policing, School Closures, and Youth Unemployment, is a product of the first national URBAN conference. It reflects the network’s commitment to research for justice that combines rigorous scholarship with the arts to engage both the head and heart so as to deepen and express our social justice values in our scholarship. The powerful cases and provocative essays in the issue are integrated with videos and graphics that bring additional depth and nuance to the topics, and that challenge the hegemony of linear academic prose as the only way to engage with scholarly knowledge.

To watch the videos, visit our YouTube page HERE

Below are the six graphics from the issue. These graphics were created live during the national conference as a way of visually documenting the rich and complex conversations. The graphics were created by Paul Kuttner, co-chair of the new Utah node of URBAN.

Advocacy Rigor and Community Engaged Scholarship

Collaborative Research for Justice Practices

Ethics and Collaborative Research for Justice

Click HERE to watch a video commentary on this graphic

Institutional Supports and Collaborative Research for Justice

Policy and Collaborative Research for Justice

Situating URBAN and Collaborative Research for Justice

UC Santa Cruz Community Engaged Research Institute (CERI) 2019 – Application deadline is April 1

Celina Su — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:06:44 +0000

Interested in learning how to do community-engaged research with experienced faculty in the gorgeous California coast? Please join the Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation [santacruzinstitute.ucsc.edu] and UC Santa Cruz’s Everett Program [everettprogram.org], the Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California [ccrec.ucsc.edu](CCREC), the Center for Labor Studies [labor.ucsc.edu], and the Blum Center [blumcenter.ucsc.edu] for a four day intensive Community Engaged Research Institute.

We will introduce graduate students, early career scholars, and community members to the foundations, ethics, methods, tools and democratic aspects of collaborative research.

Join us this summer in Santa Cruz, Ca from June 24-27, 2019. Apply now!

The Institute will be highly participatory, facilitated by experienced collaborative researchers (both university- and community-based), and rooted in case studies with community partners.

Costs for the four day institute are tiered to facilitate attendance by a diverse group. Lodging is provided on campus. The full tuition schedule, scholarship information and lodging rates are available on our website [santacruzinstitute.ucsc.edu].

Application deadline is April 1, 2019. Click here to apply