Power+in+partnerships

**Power in partnerships: Advanced methods to research and assess power, processes,** **and outcomes in community-university partnerships** Emily Janke, Special Assistant for Community Engagement, University of North Carolina at Greensboro [emjanke@uncg.edu] Barbara Holland, Scholar and Consultant, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Portland State University, and University of Sydney [barbara.holland@sydney.edu.au] Kristin Buchner, Masters Student, University of North Carolina at Greensboro [kdbuchne@uncg.edu] **Keywords:** Community-university partnerships, power imbalances**,** methodological approaches**,** partnership research design**,** reciprocity **Track:** Community partnerships and reciprocity **Format:** Interactive workshop on research methodologies  **Date & time:** Friday 9:30-10:40 **Location:** Salon 7 **Summary:** Great advances in partnership scholarship will be made once scholars carefully define the constructs they hope to examine, select research strategies that allow for the measurement and assessment of those constructs, and demonstrate the soundness of their conclusions. This highly interactive session will engage participants in an exploration of design issues in partnership research with a goal of developing new research questions and methodological strategies that could lead to improved connections between theory, research and practice. Participants will be introduced to important considerations, benefits, and limitations when choosing among various methodological approaches to studying campus-community partnerships. They will also explore the role of power, and particularly power imbalances, in the design of research on campus-community partnerships. The goal of this session is to build participant capacity to design and conduct research on/about community-university partnerships using theoretical and conceptual foundations. Participants will be engaged in learning these frameworks and using them to frame research questions and study designs that will reinforce established partnership frameworks and practices. This session is designed to help increase the rigor associated with studies on community-campus partnerships. It will address a key area of emphasis, specifically “what methods (new and existing) can be employed to better understand the impact of service learning and community engagement on advancing social change?” **References:** Barnett, B., Hall, G., Berg, J., & Camarena, M. (1999). A typology of partnerships for promoting innovation. //Journal of School Leadership, 9//(6), 484-510. Bernal, H., Shellman, J., & Reid, K. (2004). Essential concepts in developing community-university partnerships. //Public Health Nursing, 21//(1), 32-40. Bringle, R. G., & Hatcher, J. A. (2002). Campus-community partnerships: The terms of engagement. //Journal of Social Issues, 58//(3), 503-516. Bushouse, B. K. (2005). Community nonprofit organizations and service-learning: Resource constraints to building partnerships with universities. //Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 12//(1), 32-40. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">Callahan, J., & Martin, D. (2006). The spectrum of school-university partnerships: A typology of organizational learning systems. //Teaching and Teacher Education, 23//(2), 136-145. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">Community-Campus Partnerships in Health. (2006). Principles of good community campus partnerships. Retrieved from http://www.ccph.info/ <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">Enos, S., & Morton, K. (2003). Developing a theory and practice of campus-community partnerships. In B. Jacoby & Associates (Eds.), //Building partnerships for service-learning// (pp. 20 – 41). San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">Flicker, S., Savan, B., McGrath, M., Kolenda, B., & Mildenberger, M. (2007). ‘If you could change one thing…’ What community-based researchers wish they had done differently. //Community Development Journal, 43//(2), 239-253. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">Hogner, R. H., & Kenworthy, A. L. (2010). Moving forward together in sustainable, effective, and partnership-oriented ways: Connecting universities and communities through global leadership service projects. //International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 18//(2), 245-266. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">Jacoby, B. (2003). Building service-learning partnerships for the future. In B. Jacoby & Associates (Eds.), //Building partnerships for service-learning// (pp. 314 - 337). San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: left;">Janke, E. M. (forthcoming). A review of research on inter-organizational relationships: Theories and construct measurements to inform studies of partnerships for service-learning. In P. H. Clayton, R. G. Bringle, & J. A. Hatcher (Eds.), //Research and Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Assessment// (Chapter 6.3). 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