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Breathing life into theory: Illustrations of community-based research: Hallmarks, functions and phases

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The last three decades have seen a significant change in the research relationships between researchers and communities, and between universities and communities, around the emergence of community-based research (CBR). CBR in Canada can draw on its long tradition in participatory action research and Indigenous research from the late 1960s and early 1970s (Hall 2005). This research found new life with the creation in 1998 of the Community University Research Alliance (CURA) grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) partnership grants and similar grant models by other funders. Social science research is quickly moving toward community-based research models of engagement.

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  • Ochocka, J. & Janzen, R. (2014). Breathing life into theory: Illustrations of community-based research: Hallmarks, functions and phases. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, 7(1), 18–33.
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AGE: Adults

DIRECTION OF EVIDENCE: No evidence about impact

FULL TEXT AVAILABILITY: Free

HOST COUNTRY: Canada

HOST COUNTRY INCOME: High

OUTCOME AREA: Community engagement

POPULATION: Immigrants

REGION OF ORIGIN OF PARTICIPANT(S): Multiple Regions

STRENGTH OF EVIDENCE: Suggestive

TYPE OF STUDY: Suggestive evidence

YEAR PUBLISHED: 2014

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