{"id":12149,"date":"2015-01-22T16:32:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T21:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/researchimpact.ydsinc.ca\/walking-the-talk-of-community-engagement-prouver-concretement-notre-engagement-communautaire\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T21:58:50","slug":"walking-the-talk-of-community-engagement-prouver-concretement-notre-engagement-communautaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/researchimpact.ca\/fr\/archive\/walking-the-talk-of-community-engagement-prouver-concretement-notre-engagement-communautaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking the Talk of Community Engagement \/ Prouver, concr\u00e8tement, notre engagement communautaire"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many opportunities to meet and publish about community engagement. David Phipps (York University) and Jane Wedlock (United Way York Region) are active in these spaces but we\u2019re wondering how others participate. How do we support authentic community campus partnerships?<\/em>
\nLes occasions de rencontre et de publication dans le domaine de\u00a0l\u2019engagement\u00a0communautaire sont nombreuses. David Phipps et Jane Wedlock sont pr\u00e9sents et actifs dans\u00a0cette sph\u00e8re, mais se demandent de quelle fa\u00e7on les\u00a0autres y participent. Comment soutenons-nous d\u2019authentiques partenariats\u00a0entre le campus et la collectivit\u00e9?<\/em>
\n\"Walk<\/a>This is something David has been mulling over ever since York’s KMb Unit welcomed Angie Hart (Community University Partnership Program, University of Brighton) as the keynote speaker at our first KMb Expo in 2007. Angie asked for additional funding to bring her community partner and co-author Kim Auman. Continuing her commitment to authentic partnerships David had the pleasure of working with Dave Wolffe (Cupp) and his community partner Paul Bramwell at UK KMb events in Sheffield (2013) and in London (2014). All of Angie’s academic publications have a community partner.
\nWe don’t see many others in our community of engaged scholars walking the talk of authentic engagement the way Cupp does. Cupp\u2019s model requires us to consider how we work in partnership, what values underpin our work, how we build capacity to fully engage as research partners and what types of support do both community and campus partners need to create authentic partnerships.
\nDavid attended the 15th Annual Conference of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium<\/a> in October. Of the approximately 120 presentations only 14 had co-authors from organizations that appeared to be from community. There were somewhere in the order of 500 delegates. It was impossible to say how many were non-academics but in a Monday workshop of approximately 60 participants only 2 identified as from community.
\nWe both attended \u00ab\u00a0Pursuing Excellence in Collaborative Community-Campus Research: A National Summit – November 3 and 4, 2014<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb A survey of delegates was undertaken before the meeting. When answering the question \u00ab\u00a0where do you put your energy (community or campus)\u00a0\u00bb 79% of attendees answered \u00ab\u00a0balanced\u00a0\u00bb, \u00ab\u00a0mostly community\u00a0\u00bb or \u00ab\u00a0community all the way\u00a0\u00bb. So there was good community facing work. But when asked where they were employed only 9 out of the 60-ish attendees identified as non-academic.
\nWe looked at the editorial boards of journal publishing on engaged scholarship. Almost none of those reviewed had non-academic members on their editorial boards:<\/p>\n