The Community Engaged Research Community of Practice (CER-CoP) is a new student and early career researcher-led group auspiced by Melbourne Social Equity Institute.
About
The CER-CoP aim is to help champion community-engaged research across the University of Melbourne, and provide opportunities for both established and emerging researchers to reflect on their practices and improve their engagement with communities throughout the research process.
The CER-CoP holds holds bi-monthly hybrid sessions on topics of interest to the group. Their first event was held in November 2023 and featured an informal panel of three experts in community-engaged and consumer-led research and practice reflecting on their experiences and guiding a discussion.
To contact the CER-CoP, or to join their email list, please email cercop.unimelb@gmail.com.
Governance
Currently, the CER-CoP is supported by a small Leadership Group and a broader Advisory Group.
The CER-CoP Leadership Group is responsible for facilitating and chairing sessions and workshops, media and communications, administration and planning of events, among other tasks.
The CER-CoP Leadership Group meets with the Advisory Group every second month. This ensures ample opportunity for consultation and input on how the CER-CoP is run.
Current Opportunities
Arts-based Research Methods Showcase
The Community-Engaged Research Community of Practice (CER-CoP) is seeking expressions of interest for an arts-based research methods showcase between April and June 2024.
The event will involve an exhibition and launch event bringing together researchers interested in using creative and arts-based methods for community-engaged research.
If you are interested, please email cercop.unimelb@gmail.com by Friday 5 March. In your email, please include:
- your research topic and school or department
- brief outline of your research methods
- description and/or images of the creative works (e.g. photographs, visual artworks, creative writing) that you would like to display in the exhibition
- 1-2 key learnings that you would like to share with other researchers looking to use creative or arts-based research methods (e.g. photovoice). Please keep this to a brief outline using dot points or just a few sentences.
- if you have permission from the people involved in your research to publicly display their work
- any dates between April 15 and June 2024 when you know you will be unavailable.
Please direct any questions to the above email address.
This opportunity is only open to researchers based at the University of Melbourne.
Past Seminars
Working with Communities: What I Wish I Knew Before I Began
10.30am – 12.00pm, Wednesday 21 February 2024
Room 920, Melbourne Law School Building
185 Pelham Street, Carlton
A get-together for members and any interested researchers from the wider University community to share experiences, get to know each other and workshop key main issues, challenges or passions from their projects.
The conversation will be kickstarted by Claire Zammit and Gemma Tarpey-Brown (Melbourne School of Population and Global Health), discussing their experiences conducting community engaged research.
The Community of Practice hopes to see you there. Bring your curly questions about your own work challenges for the group to discuss and ideas for future seminars. Everyone is welcome to stay longer if they wish to mingle some more.
For catering purposes please RSVP if you will be attending to cercop.unimelb@gmail.com.
Claire Zammit is an implementation scientist and her doctoral studies aim to co-design, implement and evaluate community-driven strategies to improve cervical screening participation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
Gemma Tarpey-Brown has a background in migration support and her research focuses on the multifarious health impacts associated with forced migration and gender-based violence.