Upcoming EventsUniversity-Community Engagement Workshop: Building a Foundation for Shared Work, Research and RespectFriday, May 1, 2009 10am to 12:30pm
At the University Room in Hyde Hall at UNC- Chapel Hill. Registration is limited to 20 Community and 20
university participants.
Please sign up as soon as possible. The Spring 2009 Celebration of CIRAFriday, May 1, 2009 1pm to 3pm
The Center for Integrating Research and Action (CIRA) at UNC would like for you to join us for our Spring 2009 Celebration in the University Room at Hyde Hall. CIRA is part of the larger efforts on campus to assist faculty, students and community who are interested in engaged scholarship. Come learn more about CIRA, what we are doing and how you can get involved! Come meet other members of the community and university who are working on collaborative research and action projects. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at 919-619-6056 or cira@unc.edu. WelcomeThe Center for Integrating Research and Action (CIRA) at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is a recent initiative bringing together university-based researchers/activists with community-based leaders to collaborate on producing knowledge and strategies to advance social justice in North Carolina and beyond. CIRA is an initiative of faculty and graduate students primarily in the UNC-CH College of Arts & Sciences to link university resources with community development and well-being in North Carolina and beyond. Beginning in 2003, the group decided to be proactive in developing--with on-going feedback from community-based organizations--ways of collaborating on research that contributes to action in communities. Since then the CIRA Center has helped to incubate several CIRA Collaborations wherein UNC-CH teams of researchers work with the leaders and members of community- and regionally-based organizations on major social problems including the promotion of sustainable development, the reduction of poverty and its ill-effects, and the expansion of participatory democracy. The CIRA model holds that community and regional organizations, through their efforts to promote social change, develop general and place-based knowledge of poverty and other social problems. This knowledge is necessary for effectively addressing social problems and can be supported by the contributions of university teams with complementary knowledge and skills. The idea is to integrate the work of researchers with the actions of communities to achieve positive social change toward just and sustainable communities and toward the expansion of democratic input. CIRA seeks to incubate and support the efforts of university/community partnerships and contributes to academic debates and public issues. CIRA develops community-supportive research methods and enables community planning and learning processes. Participating UNC-Chapel Hill Academic DepartmentsAnthropology Contact Us
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