268 Listening to faculty who engage communities: Informing a needs assessment to strengthen community engaged research supports and systems
Katharine Helegda, Susan Woolford, Patricia Piechowski, Polly Gipson Allen · 2026
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Katharine Helegda and co-authors listen to University of Michigan faculty who do research with communities rather than merely on them. Community-engaged research needs real support: offices, funding guidance, partnership infrastructure. Yet universities rarely ask the practitioners what they actually lack. Seven faculty across health disciplines sat for semi-structured interviews.
Their accounts of process, friction, and unmet support needs were analyzed thematically. The findings shaped a university-wide needs assessment survey destined for about a thousand health researchers. Building support systems from the users' testimony, rather than guesswork, is the study's method and its message for every institution that claims engagement as a value.
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| CREATOR | Katharine Helegda, Susan Woolford, Patricia Piechowski, Polly Gipson Allen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |