Melbourne Social Equity Institute is a leader in community-engaged and coproductive research. These ways of working inform all our research priorities. We also advance the use of community-engaged and coproductive methodologies through knowledge sharing and researcher training and development.
The core feature of community-engaged and coproductive research is a high level of community decision‑making and partner involvement in the purpose, design, conduct and use of research. These approaches move beyond seeing members of communities as research ‘subjects’ to recognising people affected by social inequities as active agents in designing research for change. They also recognise the value of engaging across sectors to access diverse knowledge and research settings, and support the strong take‑up of new research evidence.
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Community Fellows Program
A flagship program fostering community-engaged and coproductive research, the Community
Fellows Program recognises that community organisations are often best placed to undertake the
research most relevant to their organisation and the communities they serve. It was developed in recognition that community organisations possess deep and extensive practice knowledge, but often lack the capacity, time and resources to test, codify and share this knowledge.
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Community Engagement Grants
The Community Engagement Grants program supports University of Melbourne researchers to develop interdisciplinary and community-engaged networks and is designed to build a researcher’s
ability to engage with community
issues at a grassroots level. Funding of up to $3000
enables researchers to develop
interdisciplinary and community engaged networks within and external to the University.
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Community of Practice
The Community Engaged Research Community of Practice is a new student and early career researcher-led group auspiced by Melbourne Social Equity Institute. It aims to provide opportunities for both established and emerging researchers to reflect on their practices and improve their engagement with communities throughout the research process.
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Research Repository
This library brings together a curated selection of scholarly works on community-engaged and coproductive research methodologies for social equity. It contains citations from research predominantly undertaken from 2000 onwards in high-, middle-, and low-income country settings. Significant and seminal articles pre-dating the year 2000 have also been included.
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