How are doctoral students researching community engagement? What can the field learn from their experience? Graduate students often struggle to find references and methodologies to frame their research projects. They borrow from other disciplines and fields and must navigate the onto-epistemological tensions of weaving in traditional research methodologies with engaged scholarship principles. Engaged-researchers and graduate students studying community engagement are then challenged to identify methodologies that will advance their community-engaged research projects on their own. This webinar will analyze the trends and gaps in research methods of recent doctoral research (36 dissertations on community engagement published between 2018 and 2022) and build on the challenges and insights from the GradSN-sponsored roundtable at the 2023 IARSLCE Conference. Identified challenges included, epistemological, ontological, and ethical challenges, research methods, institutional and structural challenges, and support mechanisms.
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