Abstract
In this paper, we ask: “How can we scope multiyear, multiscalar community–university collaborations that draw on the university’s diverse resources and contribute to community resilience”? We approach this question by presenting the development and application of the Advancing Collaborative Transdisciplinary Scholarship Framework (the “ACTS Framework”) which we argue has been successful at helping us better understand, foster, and work towards communities’ resilience. The ACTS Framework, informed by our collective expertise in critical community-engaged scholarship (CES) and community resilience, contributes to knowledge and practice in critical CES, in particular by providing guidance for scoping and sustaining complex community–university collaborations. The structured yet iterative process involved in the framework development and application affirms and extends the work of other scholars interested in the links between CES and community resilience. Our contributions offer two other important practices—centring community concerns and facilitating cross-project collaboration—to critical CES knowledge and practice and highlight two promising practices of linking structures that facilitate community–university collaborations—specifically, a well-organized institutional memory and holding and bridging relationships.
Highlights
This paper is about how a community-engaged scholarship (CES) framework, and its supporting institutional structure at a mid-sized comprehensive Canadian University, can help us better understand, learn from, and foster community resilience
We describe a process we—a group of transdisciplinary community-engaged scholars affiliated with CESI2 —developed to address a common challenge for community-engaged scholars: How can we scope multiyear, multiscalar community–university collaborations that draw on the university’s diverse resources and contribute to community resilience?
In response to calls by Levkoe (2017) and others (Nichols et al 2013; Wright et al 2011) regarding the need to identify explicit practices associated with institutions that foster collaborative research efforts, and to demonstrate the use of critical CES to foster community resilience, this section details our process of developing a framework for scoping a multiscalar, multidimensional research agenda for advancing community resilience
Summary
This paper is about how a community-engaged scholarship (CES) framework, and its supporting institutional structure at a mid-sized comprehensive Canadian University, can help us better understand, learn from, and foster community resilience. CES responds to urgent calls for addressing pressing ecological, socioeconomic, social and political challenges of our times. This includes enhancing community members’ well-being (Levine et al 2011), and informing local policy conversations (Gonzalez et al 2011). It provides an opportunity for institutions of higher education to unite and integrate their three core missions of research, teaching, and service (Stanton 2008).
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