News & Events
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25th anniversary of the John W. Gardner Center at Stanford–Recognizing Dr. Rebecca London
“There wasn’t a roadmap,” remembers Rebecca London of her early days as a Gardner Center research director in 2007. “Co-constructing knowledge with community partners was really new.” With undergraduate and master’s degrees in economics, as well as a PhD in human development and social policy, Rebecca was part of the interdisciplinary team that Milbrey McLaughlin…
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Bridging Practices: Deepening Collaboration in Community-engaged Research and IRB Process
Thursday, October 30, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Namaste Lounge Building on last April’s Bridging Perspectives: Navigating Community-Engaged Research and IRB Requirements, this Building Practices colloquium event continues the conversation between researchers, administrators, and the IRB with a focus on answering the pressing questions raised by our community. Together, we will explore: Through dialogue and…
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La Noche de las Estrellas–Night of the Stars
La Noche de las Estrellas is a pioneering visitors night for the Spanish-speaking community at Lick Observatory. This event hosts approximately 100 high school students and family members from high schools in the Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.
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Bridging Perspectives: Navigating Community-Engaged Research and IRB Requirements
Event Summary Thursday, April 17, 2 – 3:30 p.m. Namaste Lounge About 30 UCSC faculty, staff, and graduate students gathered in Namaste Lounge for the workshop sponsored by Campus + Community and the Office of Research. The goals of the workshop were to: The event showcased a partnership between Campus + Community (C+C) and the…
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FogNet — Fog Harvesting Solutions for Coastal California
FogNet is a research program that was developed to determine whether fog water harvesting has the potential to provide the coastal community with a viable and reliant water source.
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Making Agricultural Trade Sustainable
Making Agricultural Trade Sustainable (MATS) project’s goal is to identify key leverage points for changes in global agricultural trade policy that foster positive impacts of trade on sustainable development and human rights while reducing negative impacts. The project centers key United Nations sustainable development goals (SDG) including: 1) ending poverty, 2) ending hunger and malnutrition,…
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Community-Engaged Research and the Institutional Review Board: Opportunities and Considerations
By Claire Lawry and Rebecca London The Institutional Review Board plays a central role on university campuses in overseeing and administering the ethical guidelines for research. Its focus is on traditional research methods that involve researchers as the knowledge holders and producers and community members and organizations as the subjects of research. The IRB is…
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Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline
This article provides an overview of research, practice, and theory in community-engaged scholarship as a means to expand our understanding of public sociology and its broader implications for sociology as a discipline. We begin with an overview of community-engaged scholarship and how it is related to and distinct from public sociology. Five main principles of…
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Inventory of Community-Engaged Scholarship at UC Santa Cruz
Over the summer of 2023, Campus + Community (C+C) surveyed community-engaged scholarship and research collaborations across the UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) campus. A key takeaway is that centering community partnerships is happening in all divisions across campus and is conducted by faculty, students, and university staff. Focused on the past five years, the survey brought…
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UCSC Community Engaged Scholarship Guidelines for Tenure and Promotion
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) has a long and deep history of community engaged scholarship. For over 50 years, the university, a member of the ACLS Research University Consortium, boasted the only department of community studies in the United States. Beyond that department, scholars across disciplines have worked closely with community partners and organizations…
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The Psychological and Social Benefits of Agriculture with the Homeless Garden Project
The Homeless Garden Project (HGP) provides transitional work and support services to those facing homelessness through their 3-acre organic farm and related enterprises. They also provide job training, transitional employment, and support services to those experiencing homelessness. A crucial part of the support offered is the psychological and social benefits of agriculture work. Trevin Dace,…
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Playworks
Associate Professor of Sociology Rebecca London has been working with her community partner, Playworks, since 2008. Playworks is a national non-profit organization headquartered in Oakland whose mission is to facilitate safe and healthy play through supporting recess in elementary schools across the United States. A core part of their work involves helping schools to improve…