Chubb, L.A.;
Fouché, C.B.;
Kengah, K.S.;
(2021)
Co-researching complexities: Learning
strategies for edge walking in community–university research partnerships.
Research for All
, 5
(1)
pp. 157-173.
10.14324/RFA.05.1.12.
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Abstract
Community–university research partnerships (CURPs) comprise a diverse group of stakeholders who share differing capabilities and diverse insights into the same issues, and they are widely regarded as valuable to navigate the best course of action. Partnering as co-researchers is core to nurturing these partnerships, but it requires careful navigation of complexities. The different insider and outsider positionalities occupied by co-researchers highlight experiences of ‘walking on the edges’ of each other’s worlds. This not only challenges these collaborations, but also enables a depth of understanding that may not be achieved in CURPs where the luxury of, or effort in, building a team of co-researchers to collect, analyse and write up data is not present. This article focuses on learning strategies to advance the co-researching capacities of CURPs where stakeholders occupy divergent positions. The focus will be on lessons from a co-researching partnership comprising a university-affiliated academic researcher, a local Kenyan non-governmental organization (NGO) and members of a community in which the NGO worked. We argue that applying selected learning strategies may facilitate positive experiences of edge walking and enhance the meaningful two-way sharing required for cross-cultural CURPs. It is recommended that community and university research partners examine the utility of these learning strategies for strengthening co-researching in CURP contexts.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Co-researching complexities: Learning strategies for edge walking in community–university research partnerships |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/RFA.05.1.12 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.05.1.12 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 Chubb, Fouché and Sadeh Kengah. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | community–university partnerships, participatory, co-researchers |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10123524 |
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