Defining Focus and Integrity in Building a Community Research Coalition |
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Authors: | Frank Sligo Niki Culligan |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Communication and Journalism, Massey University, P.O. Box 756 Wellington, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | Pervasive and systemic barriers to collaborative university-community research make such studies highly challenging. Yet the
necessity of participative research means that feasible ways to conduct high quality collaborative investigations must be
sought. In a longitudinal action research study investigating adult literacy, issues facing community and academic researchers
centred upon focus and integrity. Differing researchers defined focus and integrity in sharply varying ways, so that terminology
employed within the programme formed contested sites of meaning and interpretation. This meant that ideas of research integrity
held very different connotations for different actors. Yet the viability of the programme depended on both academics and community
people attempting to expand their horizons by understanding and taking into account others’ perceptions.
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Keywords: | Community research Collaborative research University-community research Diversity in community Integrity in research |
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