Call
for Poster Presentations
APPLICATION
DEADLINE: EXTENDED TO MARCH 26, 2004
ICR
is currently accepting proposals for a poster session for
"Crossroads: Critical Issues in Community-Based Research."
We are looking for poster presentations that demonstrate how
community-based collaborative research addresses ethnic/cultural
diversity, racial and other forms of disparity, gaps between
communities and the institutions that serve them, and ways
that participatory or collaborative research partnerships
can remedy these and other cultural, health, environmental,
educational and economic policy oriented problems.
Poster
sessions can be project-based case studies or other presentations
that address the themes of the conference. We
encourage posters that present critical reflection on one
or more of the following topics:
- Theoretical frameworks and assumptions
guiding community-based collaborative research (CBRC).
- The "communities" that benefit
from CBCR and definitions of community.
- The methods and skills required to
build links between communities and university-trained or
university-based researchers.
- Characteristics of effective and ineffective
action research partnerships.
- Issues of power in research partnerships
and in the context of research for social change, e.g. who
sets the research agenda, definitions of "good research",
the methods chosen, control over the research process and
use of results.
- The relationship between research,
service and policy.
- Sustainability of research and action
results over time.
- Research ethics in CBRC
- Innovative research using visual and
multi-media.
High school and
undergraduate students involved in CBCR as well as staff of
Community Based Organizations are strongly encouraged to submit
poster abstracts.
Poster sessions submitted by students and CBO staff
will be eligible for the Crossroads
Student Poster Award and Community Poster Award respectively,
to be judged during the conference.
Abstracts
describing poster content should contain a maximum of 250
words.
Please use the poster
application form available here (Word,
HTML) to submit your abstract.
Participants
are strongly encouraged to use visual media and other innovative
methods of presentation in their posters. Presentations
should fit on 40x60 inch poster boards. Poster boards will
be provided at the conference.
Send
Abstracts To:
The
Institute for Community Research
ATTN:
Poster Session
2 Hartford Square West, Suite 100
Hartford
CT 0606106-5128
Fax:
860-278-2141
Email:
crossroads@icrweb.org
Note:
If you are sending your application via email, please state
"Poster Proposal" in the subject line.
For
more information, email crossroads@icrweb.org
or call Kim Radda (860)278-2044, x285.
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