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"We were thrilled this year to have our biggest pool of graduate student applicants, representing 10 departments across campus. The current group of Fellows proposed exciting projects that reflected long-term relationships with communities across Colorado. Their proposals articulated research projects with clear benefits to their partner organizations and with exciting implications for scholarship in their disciplines," explains SMµ÷½ÌËù Engage Faculty DirectorÌýBen Kirshner.
The CBR Fellows will work together as a cohort to learn methods of research that contribute to their individual doctoral research projects. Each CBR project will strive to advance SMµ÷½ÌËù Engage's key values of community-engaged research: equity, inclusion, public impact,Ìýdemocracy and the enactment of reciprocal relationships with various community partners.
Whereas emerging scholars are often forced to make a choice – to either engage in the communityÌýorÌýdo peer-reviewed researchÌý– this fellowship is designed to enable future scholars to build strong academic careers while working on public issues in partnership with community groups. "The purpose is to train a generation of scholars in the practices and principles of Community-Based Research," says Kirshner.
The 2017-18 CBR Fellows and their projects are as follows:
CBR Graduate Fellow | CBR Project | Academic Discipline |
Wayne Martin Freeman | Park Jams: Community and Youth organizing in multicultural spaces | Ethnic Studies |
Shae Frydenlund | Geographies of Work and Housing in Denver’s Muslim Refugee Community | Geography |
Erin Kaplan | Colorado Prison Arts Collective: Theatre Workshop & Community Arts-Integration Programming | Theatre |
Aaron Lamplugh | VOC Exposure Interventions in Denver Area Nail Salons | Mechanical Engineering |
Brian Lightfoot | Enhancing and Evaluating the Impact of Emancipatory Curriculum and Pedagogy for the Pathways2Teaching Program in Colorado | Education |