April 3-6, 2025
Traveling Together:
The Many Paths of Community Engaged Research
Registration, housing and travel information available below
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Providence, Rhode Island
April 3-6, 2025
Community Engaged Research, in its various names and configurations, is at a crucial juncture. There has been a joyful expansion of creative methodologies that adhere to values of community, shared power, and the meaningful participation and leadership by those most impacted by systems of oppression in the co-construction of knowledge. There is also a current risk of core terminology being co-opted and utilized by people and institutions that don’t adhere to long-held values of solidarity and robust action.
This year’s conference emphasizes that community engaged research is essentially about shared meaning making which is at the core of co-creating our society and is critically important to a well-functioning democracy. We acknowledge the breadth and diversity of journeys that lead to community engaged research while always holding onto core values.
Providence, Rhode Island
Registration
$350 Conference Registration Fee, inclusive of lunches and Thursday and Saturday Evening Events
Scholarship
Scholarship applications are open till Feb. 19th. Applications are now closed.
Conference Overview
LOCATION: CIC Providence 225 Dyer St., Providence, RI 02903
- 4 minute walk from South Street Landing Parking Garage
- 4 minute walk from Richmond Street Parking Garage
- 7 minute drive from Providence Amtrak/MBTA Station
- 13 minute drive from TF Green Airport
- Less than a 10 minute drive from major highways
For more information visit: https://cic.com/providence/
Daily Overview
12:00 PM – 5:00 PM Hotel Check-In: Homewood Suites Providence Downtown & Aloft Providence Downtown
5:00 PM – 5:15 PM Conference Check-In: Pembroke Hall, Room 305. Address: 172 Meeting St, Providence, RI 02912
For further assistance refer to Brown University’s interactive campus map: https://facilities.brown.edu/
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM Opening Event: Pembroke Hall, Room 305
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Registration: Nook outside 2nd floor elevators; Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC)
9:00 AM – 10:20 AM Session 1: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC)
10:20 AM – 10:40 AM Break: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC); Cafe Lounge
10:40 AM – 12:00 PM Session 2: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC)
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC); Cafe Lounge
1:30 PM – 2:50 PM Session 3: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC)
2:50 PM – 3:10 PM Break: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC); Cafe Lounge
3:10 PM – 4:30 PM Session 4: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC)
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Keynote Address: Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us (www.heathermcghee.com) Made Possible by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown; Assembly Room – 2nd Floor, Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC)
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Registration: Nook outside 2nd floor elevators; Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC)
9:00 AM – 10:20 AM Session 1: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC)
10:20 AM – 10:40 AM Break: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC); Cafe Lounge
10:40 AM – 12:00 PM Session 2: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC)
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC); Cafe Lounge
1:30 PM – 2:50 PM Session 3: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC)
2:50 PM – 3:10 PM Break: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC); Cafe Lounge
3:10 PM – 4:30 PM Session 4: Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC)
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM URBAN Social Mixer: Assembly Room – 2nd Floor, Cambridge Innovation Center (CiC)
9:00 am – 12:00 pm: URBAN Node building, Future Fellows & URBAN Matters gatherings
Location: Brown University, Building 3, 339 Eddy Street
9:00 am – 10:30 am: Communications Coordinators
10:30 am – 12:00 pm: National Planning Team
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Heather McGhee author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Made Possible by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown
FRIDAY: 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Co-Hosts
Annenberg Institute is dedicated to understanding the causes and mitigating the consequences of educational inequality in innovative, research-informed and multidimensional ways.
URBAN Connecticut works at the intersection of equity and methodology and use engaged inquiry to address big questions about equity and liberation.
2025 Conference Supported By
Apply for the URBAN Fellowship
The URBAN Fellowship is led by a collective of faculty and facilitated by members of the URBAN National Planning Team. The URBAN Fellowship is geared towards graduate students and early career faculty and will create a space for fellows to workshop their projects. This is an interdisciplinary fellowship, and all fields of study are welcomed.