Doing Action Research: How can the University support its Community Partners?

This interactive workshop is for people and agencies to learn more about Community-Based or Action Research and models for working with universities on community-driven research projects. These models of research allow universities and community agencies to work in partnership to meet needs identified by agencies. Participants will learn key principles and methods of action research. By hearing about the experiences of university researchers and community partners, participants will understand the challenges and rewards of this approach. As a participant, you will develop strategies for developing action research projects that meet the needs of your organization and the communities that you serve.

Cost: There is no fee for this event, but registration is required.
Parking: On campus parking available for a fee in the Visitor Lot at 12th and Marion and on Level one of the Murphy Apartments Lot on Cherry St. Click here to view Campus Map.

Registration

Space is limited, please register before Monday, April 5, 2010 Click here to register

Workshop presenters:

Dr. Mako Fitts is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Seattle University, and Affiliate Faculty in the Global African Studies and Women Studies Programs. She is also the Interim Director for Faculty Engagement with the Center for Service and Community Engagement at Seattle University. Her research applies the intersectional approach of race, gender, class and sexuality to the study of hip-hop cultural production and community organizing specifically using hip-hop as a tool for social justice activism. Her research is informed by feminist epistemologies and community-centered methodologies that engage the voices of youth, women of color, and queer and gender non-conforming communities, with a specific focus on the urban milieu. Fitts has published popular and scholarly essays on body ethics and aesthetics among women of color, media and gender images, women in hip-hop, gentrification and cultural displacement, and Black women’s social movement organizing in the early 20th century.

Dr. Bob Hughes is an associate professor of adult education at Seattle University. Prior to this, he held academic positions as a community college faculty member and dean at two colleges in the Seattle area. He has previously been an associate professor of education at California State University Monterey Bay where he also directed one of four regional centers of a distance-learning-based, alternative teacher certification program within the California State University system. His prior employment includes work as a Project Research Director and Director of Family Literacy for the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) in Massachusetts. Dr. Hughes’ scholarship focuses on college faculty development, family literacy, technology, equity issues, and Universal Design for Learning. He began his career in education as a secondary English teacher, and he has taught for over 30 years. He holds a doctorate in teaching, curriculum, and learning environments from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.