Vice Provost for Urban Research and Community Engagement and Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning Jason Reece and City and Regional Planning PhD candidate Seungbin Park have published “Perspectives of community members on community-based participatory research: A systematic literature review” in the Journal of Urban Affairs.

The co-authors are Jee Young Lee, Associate Professor at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs Jill K. Clark, Ohio State’s Senior Vice Provost for External Engagement Ryan Schmiesing, and Associate Professor in the College of Social Work Michelle L. Kaiser. 

Anchor institutions are a part of a complex urban governance regime influencing policy, investment and programming in urban neighborhoods. Anchor land-grant educational institutions are questioning their role in conducting impactful research in and with the community. We find growing evidence of interest in community-based participatory research (CBPR) by universities and funders. Utilizing a systematic literature review we analyze peer-reviewed scholarship on CBPR. While the number of CBPR publications has been on the rise since 2005 and the term CBPR among others is used most frequently across the fields, the trend in the social sciences is lagging. About half of the CBPR literature provides community perspectives, and less than a third was coauthored with community partners. 

Read more at the Journal of Urban Affairs