Resources for Community Engaged Scholarship (CES)

Journals & Guides to CES

Helpful Websites

• UC Merced OSL Community Based Learning information for Faculty and Instructors

• Find out more about service learning and how to apply for available grants

• Get information about college campuses involved in civic engagement within their communities

• Schools with high rates of civic engagement/community service/service learning/community engaged programs

• Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, which promotes health equity and social justice through partnerships between communities and academic institutions

• Learn how Community Engaged Scholarship can be used to create action for Social Change 

Reference Books, Journals, and Guides

• Community-Based Participatory Research for Health. (2003). Mikler, M. and Wallerstein, N. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. — Reference book explains how to create a CES program and the expected outcomes of a successful program.

• Handbook of Engaged Scholarship: Contemporary Landscapes, Future Directions. (2012). Fitzgerald, Hiram E, Cathy Burack, and Sarena D Seifer, Michigan State University Press. — Handbook explaining different dimensions of CEnR; includes thoughful entries on the social and academic signifance of such research.

• Community-Based Archaeology: Research with, by, and for Indigenous and Local Communities. (2012). Atalay, Sonya. — While this book is focused on archaeological field methods, it provides a versatile dialogue on shifting research from a one-way study about people to something that is done with communities.

Journals, Articles, and Guides

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• A guide for people interested in starting community-based partnerships

• Community-engaged research: A quick-start guide for researchers

• Community-engaged research with community-based organizations

• Community-engaged research with community-based clinicians

• Introduction to Effectiveness, dissemination, and implementation research

• Community-engaged research: A quick-start guide for community-based organizations

• Community-engaged research with UCSF researchers

• Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement Volume

• Community-engaged scholarship guides and manuals for clinicians, researchers and community members

• Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement 

• Ecology and Society

• Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics – Models of CBPR

• Leveraging Community Knowledge through CBPR

• Linking Academic and Community Guidelines for Community-Engaged Scholarship

• The Three ‘R’s: How Community Based Participatory Research Strengthens the Rigor, Relevance, and Reach of Research

Grants

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) – Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) – Mani L Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science

• Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty

• The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award