47 Community Engagement and Collaboration | Setting the Scene

You have learned a lot about what knowledge mobilization is and how you can communicate your research findings. But what about the community that your work is focused on? What about the partners and stakeholders involved in or related to your research? How can you work to make sure that your research is focused on community-need and that it authentically engages the community? And that research results are shared with the community? These questions are complex and there is no one size fits all answer, but this module should help you to better understand what community engagement is and how you can appropriately and authentically integrate people with lived experience into their research work.