Community-based research

Community-Based Research Canada (CBRCanada)

The University of Waterloo is an institutional member of CBRCanada, a national non-profit organization that champions and facilitates community-based research excellence. As a member, Waterloo students, faculty and staff have access to a variety of resources such as the Community of Practice, Webinars  & Discussions, latest CBR News, CBR Approach, and Resource Centre with publications on research ethics, CBR theory, CBR methods, CBR journals and CBR movement and member research.

CBRCanada supports the bi-annual C2UExpo (Community-Campus-Exposition) community-campus conferences which connects individuals, academics, communities, and organizations to address local, regional, national and global problems.

For more information, visit the CBRCanada website, subscribe to the e-newsletter, and visit the events page.

Community-Engaged Research Library (Leong Centre)

The Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children (Leong Centre), University of Toronto, maintains an online library with resources related to community engagement such as articles, worksheets, toolkits and videos. Some of the resources to foster meaningful engagement with patients, communities and the public include:

• Leong Centre-Unity Health Toronto Engagement Planning Worksheet for pre-engagement activities.
• Unity Health Toronto Resource Guide: Patient and Community Engagement in the Design and Implementation of Research Studies for co-design and co-implementation with patients and community partners.
• Dr. Bridget Pratt’s ethical toolkit for Sharing Power with Communities in Priority-Setting for Health Research Projects for involving communities in the priority-setting processes.
• Article by Smith, J., Puckett, C., Simon, W. (2015) on Indigenous allyship: An overview to guide collaborative projects with Indigenous communities.
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s Equity and Inclusion Guiding Engagement Principles for equity-centred patient, public and community engagement.
• University of Minnesota’s Community-Centered Dissemination Toolkit which centres community-engagement principles into research dissemination.

For a more comprehensive list of resources, visit the Community-Engaged Library.