Abstract
Academic calendars and university timelines set an urgent pace for researchers, which can hinder the establishment of long-term community partnerships. Given community-based participatory research’s (CBPR) emphasis on community-led research, time constraints can inhibit academic researchers’ commitments to collaborative methodologies and participatory research. This article considers how CBPR can be adapted for shorter-term engagements while still producing mutually beneficial research. In doing so, we contribute to the existing corpus on rapid assessment methodologies, characterized for adopting methods traditionally practiced over a longer duration to shorter time frames. We review the successes and limitations of a CBPR project executed within the timespan of six months in Flint, Michigan. In the case discussed, photo-voice enabled the inclusion of diverse ways of knowing, horizontal partnerships, reciprocal learning, and an accessible disemmination format within a CBPR framework. In conclusion we assert that there is value in short-term CBPR, especially for emergent issues where there is a need for rapid, responsive methodologies. However, short-term CBPR is a sprint, rather than a marathon; although shorter in duration, it is more intensive. It requires significant methodological commitments, flexibility, and an intensified workload for those involved.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 380-398 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Qualitative Research |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2023 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- CBPR
- community-based participatory research
- feminist pedagogy
- Flint
- knowledge co-production
- participation
- participatory pedagogy
- photovoice
- water
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- History and Philosophy of Science