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The authors argue that university-engagement research benefits the communities as well as HEIs, however, such research, and especially the process of community engagement has been less frequently described in the literature. Recognizing the variation within community-based participatory research (CBPR) practices and processes, as well as that research has employed cross-disciplinary mixed methods (MM) designs to create outcomes that are meaningful to communities, the purpose of their chapter is to report on a cross-disciplinary collaborative university-engagement MM research of the character of CBPR for healthier and safer communities in Baltimore, Maryland, funded by Johns Hopkins University. The authors, first, familiarize readers with CBPR, then provide details about the project’s backdrop, MM design, and conclude with lessons learned and suggestions for future research to improve collaboration within scholars in different academic departments (social science, public health, and medicine) as well as with community leaders and residents.
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This chapter results from the project Building School and Community Capacity Through Citizens’ Engagement that is funded by the Johns Hopkins University, Schools of Education, Center for Safe and Healthy Schools (CSHS) Seed Grant Program. The views expressed in this publication are the sole responsibility of the authors and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the project’s funding institutions. The funding institutions cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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Papadimitriou, A., Stewart, R.W., Frangakis, C. (2021). University-Engagement Research: Application of a Mixed Method Design of Community-Based Participatory Research for Communities’ Well-Being. In: Papadimitriou, A., Boboc, M. (eds) Re-envisioning Higher Education’s Public Mission. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55716-4_6
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