CED Core Services & Resources
Services
Consultations
The CED Core offers individualized consultations designed to help strengthen your community engagement efforts. We offer advice and assistance across the continuum of community involvement. No matter what your level of expertise or experience with community engaged research is, we can help identify techniques and strategies to advance research-practice partnerships. Our consultations are available to the DSU community and to our community partners.
Studio Sessions
In collaboration with the IHER Research Capacity Core, we offer Studio Sessions, a personalized think tank designed to help you think through your research idea and/or to help you map out and integrate the components of your research proposal. The CED Core will organize and facilitate an individualized Studio Session for you. We will convene internal and external colleagues in your field of study, Research Capacity Core experts, and community representatives. In one session, you can get a 360° discussion on your proposal. It is never too early in the proposal development process to participate in a Studio Session.
2024 – 2025 “ASK THE CED CORE” | Sessions & SCHEDULE
The CED Core will provide open office hour sessions once a month to share tips, answer questions, and make connections. Four broad topic areas will be addressed on a rotating basis posted on the website:
- Community Engagement – Join us to learn about how to engage community members in your research. The CED Core, our community partners, and your DSU colleagues will share lessons learned, tips, and effective strategies to build equitable, mutually beneficial partnerships.
- Community Engaged Research – During these office hours, the CED Core will answer questions and provide suggestions to assist you in developing the most appropriate and strongest community engaged research plan possible. Seasoned DSU community engaged researchers and community partners will share their experiences and strategies.
- Faculty Forum – This office hour session is designed to provide time for faculty to discuss their concerns and needs related to community engaged research. CED Core staff will answer questions, provide suggestions and point you toward resources.
- Community Partner Conversations – This session is for our community partners to connect and discuss your concerns about and roadblocks to participating in community engaged research.
ALL SESSION WILL BE DURING COMMON HOUR FROM 11:00 a.m. TO 11:50 a.m.
Sessions will be recorded and posted on the CED Core website.
April 16, 2024 – Community Engaged Research: The Basics and CED Core Resources
- Primary Audience: DSU Community and Community Partners
- Meet the CED Core Team and learn about how we can help you initiate or strengthen your community engaged research efforts. After brief introductions, we will provide a brief overview of community engaged research and share our continuum of engagement framework.
May 16, 2024 – Community Engagement: Building Reciprocal Partnerships
- Primary Audience: DSU Community and Community Partners
- In this session, we will provide a brief overview of the elements of equitable community engagement, such as trust, respect, and understanding community context and history. We will open the floor to participants to ask questions, and to share their experiences building reciprocal partnerships and participating in equitable community engagement.
June 20, 2024 – Community Engagement: Research Practice Partnerships
- Primary Audience: DSU Community and Community Partners
- Research–practice partnerships (RPPs) are mutually beneficial partnerships between researchers and community partners focused on research that can be used to make practice-based improvements. Join us to learn more about RPPs and their connection to community engaged research. We will provide an overview of RPPs, provide examples, and answer questions.
July 16, 2024 – Community Partner Conversation
- Primary Audience: Community Partners
- This Ask the CED Core session is designed for community partners interested in participating in community engaged research and engaging with DSU researchers. The CED Core will host an open discussion about how to collaborate with researchers and establish reciprocal partnerships. We will answer questions, help to resolve roadblocks, and identify potential researcher connections. We are also interested in your experiences and challenges participating in community engaged research.
September 19, 2024 – Community Engaged Research: CBPR
- Primary Audience: DSU Behavioral Health, Social Work, and Social Science Researchers
- Community Based Participatory Research is the primary community engaged research methodology. An introduction to the methodology will be provided and a CBPR expert will answer questions. This session will allow you to tell us what CBPR resources and support you need.
October 1, 2024 – Community Engagement: CED Core Round 2 Mini Grants Announcement
- Primary Audience: DSU Community and Community Partners
- Come learn about the CED Mini Grant program. It is designed to support community engagement and community engaged research. The CED Core Team will introduce the Mini Grants program, answer questions, explain the application process, provide feedback on application ideas, and make research practice connections.
October 3, 2024 – Community Engagement: Round 1 Mini Grant Lessons Learned
- Primary Audience: DSU Community and Community Partners
- Learn from recipients of the first round of CED mini grants. Mini grant community partner and research recipients will share their experiences and provide tips for applying for a mini grant. The CED Core team will also answer questions and provide guidance in applying for a mini grant.
October 7, 2024 – Community Engagement: CED Core Round 2 Mini Grants Q&A
- Primary Audience: DSU Community and Community Partners
- Note the Time Change: This session will be from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
- The CED Core is here to help as you prepare your CED mini grant application. We will answer your questions and provide guidance.
October 15, 2024 – Community Engagement: CED Core Round 2 Mini Grants Q&A
- Primary Audience: DSU Community and Community Partners
- The CED Core is here to help as you prepare your CED mini grant application. We will answer your questions and provide guidance.
October 16, 2024 – Community Engagement: CED Core Round 2 Mini Grants Q&A
- Primary Audience: DSU Community and Community Partners
- Note the Time Change: This session will be from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
- The CED Core is here to help as you prepare your CED mini grant application. We will answer your questions and provide guidance.
February 6, 2025 – Community Engaged Research: Participatory Action Research
- Primary Audience: DSU Behavioral Health, Social Work, and Social Science Researchers
- Participatory Action Research is a standard social science methodology designed to ensure community involvement in the research process and action planning based on research findings. In this session, the PAR methodology will be introduced, and a PAR expert will answer questions. This session will allow you to tell us what PAR resources and support you need.
March 20, 2025 – Community Partner Conversation
- Primary Audience: Community Partners
- This Ask the CED Core session is designed for community partners interested in participating in community engaged research and engaging with DSU researchers. The CED Core will host an open discussion about how to collaborate with researchers and establish reciprocal partnerships. We will answer questions, help to resolve roadblocks, and identify potential researcher connections. We are also interested in your experiences and challenges participating in community engaged research.
April 15, 2025 – Faculty Forum
- Primary Audience: DSU Faculty and Researchers
- The CED Core is asking DSU researchers to join us for an open discussion about your community engagement and community engaged research questions, suggestions, experiences, and needs. This will be an opportunity to learn from our community engaged research colleagues and to collaboratively identify and resolve challenges with conducting community engaged research and partnering with community groups and organizations.
Sessions will continue monthly. Topics to be determined.