Establishing CER Partnerships

  • Andrews, J.O., Cox, M.J., Newman, S.D., & Meadows, O. (2011). Development and Evaluation of a Toolkit to Assess Partnership Readiness for Community-Based Participatory Research. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action 5(2), 183-188. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2011.0019.
  • Duran, B., Wallerstein, N., Avial, M.M., Belone, L., Minkler, M., & Foley, K. (2013). Developing and maintaining partnerships with communities. In B. A. Israel, E. Eng, A. J. Shulz, & E. A. Parker, Methods for Community-based Participatory Research for Health (pp. 43-68). Jossey-Bass. (Available in the MSU Library EBSCO Host e-book Collection.) Duran Partnerships
  • Ochocka, J., Moorlag, E., & Janzen, R. (2010). A framework for entry: PAR values and engagement strategies in community research. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, 3, 1-19. Ochoka Entry Framework
  • Booker, L., Conaway, C., & Schwartz, N. (2019). Five Ways RPPs Can Fail and How to Avoid Them: Applying Conceptual Frameworks to Improve RPPs. William T. Grant Foundation. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED599940.pdf.

Building and Sustaining Trust in Partnerships

  • Lucero, J. E., Wright, K. E., & Reese, A. (2017). Trust development in CBPR partnerships. Community-based participatory research for health: Advancing social and health equity, 61-76.
  • Christopher, S., Watts, V., McCormick, A. K. H. G., & Young, S. (2008). Building and maintaining trust in a community-based participatory research partnership. American Journal of Public Health, 98(8), 1398-1406. Christopher Trust
  • Miller, K. E. (2004). Beyond the Frontstage: Trust, access, and the relational context in research with refugee communities. American Journal of Community Psychology, 33, 217-227. Miller Frontstage
  • McKnight, D. H., Cummings, L. L., & Chervany, N. L. (1998). Initial Trust Formation in New Organizational Relationships. The Academy of Management Review, 23(3), 473–490. https://doi.org/10.2307/259290
  • Ehsan, A. (2024). Negotiating access to community-based participatory research. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 59(3), 515-522.
  • Gilfoyle, M., Salsberg, J., Macfarlane, A., McCarthy, M., & MacCarron, P. (2025). Exploration of trust in participatory health research partnerships across two timepoints: a network approach. BMJ open, 15(2), e088355.
  • Dumlao, R. J. (2020). An Adventure in Learning about Communication in Partnerships. Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, 11(1), 310-318.

Addressing Positionality and Power in CER Partnerships

Achieving Reciprocity in CER

Continuums of Community Engagement in CER

  • Carson, M. A., Doberneck, D. M., Hart, Z., Kelsey, H., Pierce, J. Y., Porter, D. E., Richlen, M. L., Schandera, L., & Triezenberg, H. A. (2022). A strategic framework for community engagement in oceans and human health. Community Science 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022CSJ000001
  • Cloutier, K., Clements, K. A. V., & McGirr, S. (2022). Doing what we can with what we have: Engaged scholarship among community psychology doctoral students. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 26(3), 177-197. https://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/jheoe/article/view/2149
  • IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation, https://www.iap2.org/page/SpectrumEvolution
  • Key, K. D., Furr-Holden, D., Lewis, E. Y., Cunningham, R., Zimmerman, M. A., Johnson-Lawrence, V., & Selig, S. (2019). The continuum of community engagement in research: a roadmap for understanding and assessing progress. Progress in community health partnerships: research, education, and action, 13(4), 427-434.
  • Vaughn, L. M., & Jacquez, F. (2020). Participatory Research Methods – Choice Points in the Research Process. Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.35844/001c.13244
  • Doberneck, D. M., & Dann, S. L. (2019). The degree of collaboration abacus tool. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 23(2), 93-107. https://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/jheoe/article/view/1453

Identifying and Involving Partners

  • Arieli, D., Friedman, V. J., & Agbaria, K. (2009). The paradox of participation in action research. Action research, 7(3), 263-290.
  • Chevalier, J. M., & Buckles, D. J. (2013). Handbook for Participatory Research, Planning, and Evaluation. Ottawa, Canada: SAS2 Dialogue.  Available at: https://www.betterevaluation.org/sites/default/files/Toolkit_En_March7_2013-S.pdf. Module 4 (pp. 75-78). 
  • Johnson, G., Scholes, K. and Whittington, R. (2008) Exploring Corporate Strategy. 8th Edition, Prentice Hall. Power-Influence Stakeholder Matrix (pp. 156-160).
  • Liaison2020. (n.d.). Rainbow Diagram: Tool 28. https://liaison2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/LIAISON-Assessment-Tools.pdf
  • Reed, M. S., Graves, A., Dandy, N., Posthumus, N., Hubacek, K., Morris, J., Prell, C., Quinn, C. H., & Stringer, L. C. (2009). Who’s in and Why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management. Journal of Environmental Management 90, 1933-1949.
  • Sarkissian, W., Hoefer, N., Shore, Y., Vajda, S., & Wikinson, C. (2009). Kitchen Table Sustainability: Practical recipes for community engagement with sustainability. New York, NY: Earthscan from Routledge. Chapter 8: Inclusion (pp. 197-226).

Setting Partnership Priorities and Establishing Goals

  • Altman, M. R., Kim, J., Busse, M., & Kantrowitz-Gordon, I. (2020). Community-led research priority setting for highly vulnerable communities: Adaptation of the Research Prioritization by Affected Communities protocol. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19, 1609406920957508. Altman Research Prioritization
  • Sanchez-Youngman, S., & Wallerstein, N. (2018). Partnership river of life: Creating a historical timeline. Community-based participatory research for health: Advancing social and health equity, 375-378.

Creating Partnership Agreements, Memoranda of Understanding, and Data-Use Agreements

  • Community Research Collaborative. (2021). In it together: Community-based research guidelines for communities and higher education. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah.
  • Emmons et al. (2023). Data sharing in the context of community-engaged research partnerships. Social science & medicine, 325, 115895. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115895
  • Engage for Equity (E2) Project Values, Data Sharing, Ownership, and Publishing Agreement. https://hsc.unm.edu/population-health/_documents/cpr/publishing-agreement.pdf
  • Hudson M, Carroll SR, Anderson J, Blackwater D, Cordova-Marks FM, Cummins J, David-Chavez D, Fernandez A, Garba I, Hiraldo D, Jäger MB, Jennings LL, Martinez A, Sterling R, Walker JD and Rowe RK (2023) Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Data: a contribution toward Indigenous Research Sovereignty. Front. Res. Metr. Anal. 8:1173805. https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2023.1173805
  • Rodriguez Espinoza, P., & Richmond, A. (2017). Partnership agreements: A practical guide to developing data sharing, ownership, and publishing agreements. Community-based participatory research for health: Advancing social and health equity, 385-391. 
  • Shapiro, V. B., Metzger, A. N., Jones, T. M., & Doane, A. (2023). Understanding memorandums of understanding: Lessons learned through the negotiation of contracts in research practice partnerships. Journal of Community Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2023.2275630
  • The Community Toolbox. Chapter 9. Understanding and Writing Contracts and Memoranda of Agreement. https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/structure/organizational-structure  
  • University of Minnesota Memorandum of Understanding – Community-Campus Collaboration https://policy.umn.edu/Forms/um-1821

Employing Effective CER Partnership Structures and Processes

  • Becker, A. B., Israel, B. A., & Allen, A. J. (2005). Strategies and techniques for effective group process in CBPR partnerships. Methods in community-based participatory research for health, 2, 69-94. http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/27633/1/23.pdf#page=96
  • Community Toolbox. Chapter 9. Developing an organizational structure for the initiative. https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/structure/organizational-structure
  • Wallerstein N, Oetzel JG, Sanchez-Youngman S, et al. Engage for Equity: A Long-Term Study of Community-Based Participatory Research and Community-Engaged Research Practices and Outcomes. Health Education & Behavior. 2020;47(3):380-390. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198119897075
  • Zvonkovic, A. M., Standifer, A., Dumlao, R., & Gavazzi, S. M. (2025). Addressing campus–community relationships using the three corners marriage model. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 17(1), 73-91.

Budgeting for Partnerships and Compensating Community Partners

  • Gaudry, A., & Hern, M. (2025). Your $20 Starbuck gift card isn’t helping: A conversation about community-based research as cooperative learning. In S. Poyntz, A. Johal, & K. Grain (Eds.). Critical futures: Community-engaged research in a time of social transformation, pp,127-139. University of Toronto Press. https://utppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.3138/9781487550202
  • Hoeft, T. J., Burke, W., Hopkins, S. E., Charles, W., Trinidad, S. B., James, R. D., & Boyer, B. B. (2014). Building partnerships in community-based participatory research: budgetary and other cost considerations. Health promotion practice, 15(2), 263-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524839913485962
  • Langness, M., Morgan, J. W., Cedano, S., & Falkenburger, E. (2023). Equitable compensation for community engagement guidebook. Washington, DC: Urban Institute. https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/2023-08/Equitable%20Compensation%20for%20Community%20Engagement%20Guidebook.pdf
  • Rabinowitz, M., González, I., & Rogers, R. C. (2024). The Equity-Centered Participatory Compensation Model (EPCM): A Tutorial for This Emergent Methodology. Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.35844/001c.92362
  • Largent, E. A., & Lynch, H. F. (2017). Paying research participants: The outsized influence of “undue influence”. Irb, 39(4), 1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5640154/
  • Szlyk, H. S., Banks, D. E., Dell, N. A., Hutson, W. D., & Meigs, L. (2025). Something does not add up: Rethinking how we compensate for research participation among people who use drugs. Journal of Substance Use & Addiction Treatment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.josat.2025.209774
  • Bilheimer A, Datta N, Grewe ME, et al. Identifying and addressing institutional barriers to community partner compensation for engaged research: A Clinical and Translational Science Award case study. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2025;9(1):e111. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2025.79

Resolving Conflicts in CER Partnerships

  • Behfar, K., Peterson, R., Mannix, E., & Trochim, W. T. (2008). The critical role of conflict resolution in teams: A close look at the links between conflict type, conflict management strategies, and team outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 170-188. Conflict in Teams
  • Janke, E. M., & Dumlao, R. (2019). Developing communication repertoires to address conflict in community engagement work. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 23, 35-56. Conflict Repertoires

Sustaining CER Partnerships and Initiatives

  • April, K., Stenersen, M. R., Deslandes, M., Ford, T. C., Gaylord, P., Patterson, J., Wilson, B., & Kaufman, J. S. (2023). “Give up your mic”: Building capacity and sustainability within community-based participatory initiatives. American Journal of Community Psychology, 72, 203-216. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12674
  • Duran, B., Wallerstein, N., Avial, M.M., Belone, L., Minkler, M., & Foley, K. (2013). Developing and maintaining partnerships with communities. In B. A. Israel, E. Eng, A. J. Shulz, & E. A. Parker, Methods for Community-based Participatory Research for Health (pp. 43-68). Jossey-Bass. (Available in the MSU Library EBSCO Host e-book Collection.) Duran Partnerships
  • Israel, B.A., Krieger, J., Vlahov, D. et al. Challenges and Facilitating Factors in Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: Lessons Learned from the Detroit, New York City and Seattle Urban Research Centers. J Urban Health 83, 1022–1040 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-006-9110-1

Evaluating CER Partnership Processes and Outcomes

  • Oetzel, J. G., Duran, B., Sussman, A., Pearson, C., Magarati, M., Khodyakov, D., & Wallerstein, N. (2017). Evaluation of CBPR partnerships and outcomes. Community-based participatory research for health: Advancing social and health equity, 237.
  • Kniffin, L., Camo-Biogradlija, J., Price, M. F., Kohl, E., Williams, J., Del Conte Dickovick, A., Goodwin, A., Johnson, K. V., Clayton, P. H., & Bringle, R. G. (2020). Relationships and partnerships in community–campus engagement: Evolving inquiry and practice. International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, 8(1), Article 15. https://doi.org/10.37333/001c.18586
  • Samuels, E., Vereen, D., Piechowski, P., McKay, A., De Loney, E. H., Bailey, S., … Woolford, S. (2023). Developing relevant assessments of community-engaged research partnerships: A community-based participatory approach to evaluating clinical and health research study teams. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 7(1), e123. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2023.544

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