This fall, Da Hood Talks Entertainment is taking over Collaborative Café to host a three-part series about ethical community engagement in research. The first two candid discussions requests that researchers sit back and hear directly from community members about harms caused by academic institutions, which have minimized community expertise and decentered research aims to help. The third event in this series will invite researchers to ask questions about ethical and effective community engagement in research, share challenges in putting community relationship-building principles into action, and collaborate around solutions. Attendees should be prepared to actively listen, examine their own role in distrust created by these systems, and identify ways each of us can move beyond good intentions to build better relationships.

This second session of the series is aimed at faculty and research teams partnering with community organizations. Panelists speaking on behalf of Black-led, St. Louis community-based organizations will share honest accounts of engaging in research partnerships with universities. This listen-and-learn session will delve into how faculty and research teams have caused harm, distrust, and negative impact to community-engaged research collaborations. Attendees should intently listen to understand community perspective, then self-reflect on the panelists’ messages about creating authentic, intentional research partnerships. This event is designed as a listening session for an academic audience. The final event of this series will invite researchers to ask questions, share challenges in building trusted community partnerships, and collaborate around solutions.

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About Collaborative Café

The Center for Community Health Partnership & Research at the Institute for Public Health and Institute of Clinical & Translational Sciences regularly hosts an informal, discussion-based event called Collaborative Café. Cafés offer opportunities for researchers and community partners to network, share experiences, and learn from each other about community-engaged research. 

Please reach out to meaghan@wustl.edu with any questions!

Learning objectives  

Attendees will:  

• Hear about Black-led community organizations’ experiences in university research partnerships
• Understand researcher’s obligation to build authentic, trusted, and intentional community-academic research partnerships
• Take away critical messages that will inform current and future community-academic partnerships

Attendance

This event will take place in person in the Doll & Hill Room on the second floor of the Taylor Avenue Building on the WashU Medical Campus. This event is open to all faculty and researchers at WashU seeking to genuinely understand community perceptions of research and to strengthen community engagement in their own work.

Lunch will be provided. Please register to attend.