Co-Designing CER Projects

• Hacker, K. (2013). Community-based participatory research. Chapter 3: Methods for CBPR. Sage publications. http://ezproxy.msu.edu/login?url=https://methods-sagepub-com.proxy1.cl.msu.edu/book/mono/community-based-participatory-research/toc
• Hacker, K. (2013). Community-based participatory research. Chapter 4: CBPR—Step by step. Sage publications. http://ezproxy.msu.edu/login?url=https://methods-sagepub-com.proxy1.cl.msu.edu/book/mono/community-based-participatory-research/toc
• Parker M, Wallerstein N, Duran B, et al. Engage for Equity: Development of Community-Based Participatory Research Tools. Health Education & Behavior. 2020;47(3):359-371. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198120921188
• 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

Community Asset Identification and Mobilization

• ABCD Institute, http://www.abcdinstitute.org/
• Emery, M., Fey, S., & Flora, C. (2006). Using community capitals to develop assets for positive community change. CD Practice 13. https://www.montana.edu/extension/teton/documents/communitycapitalstodevelopassets-emeryfeyflora2006withhighlights.pdf
• Flora, C. B., Flora, J. L., & Gasteyer, S. P. (2016). Rural communities: Legacy and change, 5th edition. Routledge.
• Green, G. P., & Haines, A. (2016). Asset building & community development, 4th edition. SAGE. 
• Kretzmann, J. P., & McKnight, J. L. (1993). Building communities from the inside out: A path toward finding and mobilizing a community’s assets. Acta Publishing.
• Minkler, M., & Hancock, T. (2008). Community-driven asset identification and issue selection. In M. Minkler & N. Wallerstein (Eds.), Community-based Participatory Research for Health: From Process to Outcomes (pp. 153-169). Jossey-Bass. (Available in the MSU Library EBSCO Host e-book Collection.) Minkler Chapter 9 Assets
• Montañez, S. R. (2023). Advancing equity through research: The importance of asset-based approaches and methods. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 86, 101540.
• Sharpe, P.A., Greaney, M.L., Lee, P.R., & Royce, S.W. (2000). Assets-oriented community assessment. Public Health Reports, 115(2-3), 205-11. Sharpe Assets
• Yosso, T. J. (2005). Whose culture has capital? A crucial race theory discussion of community cultural wealth. Race, Ethnicity, and Education 8(1), 69-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/136133205200034100

Visual, Narrative, and Creative Methods in CER

• Chapman, O., & Sawchuck, K. (2015) “Research-creation: Intervention, analysis, and family resemblances” Canadian Journal of Communication, 37(1). https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2012v37n1a2489
• Fraser, K. D., & Al Sayah, F. (2011). Arts-based methods in health research: A systematic review of the literature. Arts & Health, 3(2), 110-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2011.561357
• Garrett-Petts, W., & Asiedu, E., (2025). Art at work and workers as artists: Project thinking, craft, and creativity in community-engaged research. In S. R. Poyntz, A. Johal, & K. Grain (Eds.). Critical futures: Community-engaged research in a time of social transformation, pp. 251-271. University of Toronto Press.
• Loveless, N. (2019). How to make art at the end of the world: A manifesto for research-creation. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-make-art-at-the-end-of-the-world
• Mannay, D. (2015). Visual, Narrative and Creative Research Methods: Application, reflection and ethics (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315775760
• Overby, L. Y. (2015). Public scholarship in dance: Teaching, choreography, research, service, and assessment for community engagement. Human Kinetics.
• Wang C, Burris MA. Photovoice: Concept, Methodology, and Use for Participatory Needs Assessment. Health Education & Behavior. 1997;24(3):369-387. https://doi.org/10.1177/109019819702400309
• Wang, Q., Coemans, S., Siegesmund, R., & Hannes, K. (2017). Arts-based methods in socially engaged research practice: A classification framework. Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, 2(2), 5-39. https://doi.org/10.18432/R26G8P

Indigenous Methodologies

• Brown, L. A. & Strenga, S., (2005). Research as resistance: Critical, Indigenous, and anti-oppressive approaches. Canadian Scholars Press.
• Chilisa, B. (2019). Indigenous research methodologies. Sage publications.
• Fox, C.A., Reo, N.J., Turner, D.A. et al. “The river is us; the river is in our veins”: re-defining river restoration in three Indigenous communities. Sustain Sci 12, 521–533 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-016-0421-1
• Gone, J. (2019). Considering Indigenous Research Methodologies: Critical reflections by an Indigenous Knower. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(1), 45-56. 
• Kawulich, B., & Ogletree, T. (2012). Ethics in community research: Reflections on ethnographic research on First Nations people in the US. In L. Goodson & J. Phillimore (Eds.). Community research for participation: From Theory to Method (pp 201-214). Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press.
• Kovach, M. (2021). Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations, and contexts. University of Toronto press.
• Murphy, K., Branje, K., White, T., Cunsolo, A., Latimer, M., McMillan, J., ... & Martin, D. (2021). Are we walking the talk of participatory Indigenous health research? A scoping review of the literature in Atlantic Canada. PLoS One, 16(7), e0255265.
• Poitra, C., Kolonich, A., Mitchell, E., Proctor, E., Shirley, A., Baier, A., & LaPensee, E. (2021). Reciprocal Research: A Guidebook for Centering Community in Partnerships with Indigenous Nations. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Native American Institute. https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/reciprocal-research-guidebook-partnerships-indigenous-nations.
• Riley, L. M. N. M., & Kaneakua, J. P. (2024). (Re)Building trust with indigenous communities: Reflection from cultural brokers. Journal of Higher Outreach and Engagement 28(3), 169-184. 
• Smith, L.T. (2012). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and Indigenous People, 2nd edition. Zed Books. Linda Tuhiwai Smith
• Smith, L. T. (2019). Decolonizing research: Indigenous storywork as methodology. Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Tsosie, R. L., Wu, K., Grant, A. D., Harrington, J., Chase, S. T., Thomas, A., ... & Plenty Sweetgrass‐She Kills, R. (2024). A growing willow: The Six Rs Indigenous research framework—Stories of the Native American faculty journey in STEM. Rural Sociology, 89, 620-637. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12576
• Wilson, S. (2020). Research is ceremony: Indigenous research methods. Fernwood publishing.
• Whyte, K. P. 2016. "What Do Indigenous Knowledges Do for Indigenous Peoples?". In Keepers of the Green World: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainability, edited by Melissa K. Nelson and Dan Shilling. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Wildcat, M., & Voth, D. (2023). Indigenous relationality: definitions and methods. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 19(2), 475-483.

Participatory Research Methods

• Chevalier, J. M., & Buckles, D. J. (2019). Participatory action research: Theory and methods for engaged inquiry, 2nd edition. Routledge.
• Duea, S. R., Zimmerman, E. B., Vaughn, L. M., Dias, S., & Harris, J. (2022). A Guide to Selecting Participatory Research Methods Based on Project and Partnership Goals. Journal of participatory research methods, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.35844/001c.32605
• Fine, M., & Torre, M. E. (2021). Essentials of critical participatory action research. American Psychological Association. 
• Holman, P., Devane, T., & Cady, S. (2007). The change handbook. Berrett-Koehler.
• International Association for Public Participation, https://www.iap2.org/
• Journal of Participatory Research Methods, https://jprm.scholasticahq.com/
• Lipmanowicz, H., & McCandless, K. (2023). The surprising power of liberating structures. Liberating Structures Press. https://www.liberatingstructures.com/
• Löhr, K., Weinhardt, M., & Sieber, S. (2020). The “World Café” as a Participatory Method for Collecting Qualitative Data. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406920916976
• Participedia, https://participedia.net/
• Sanders, E., Sanders, N., & Strappers, P.J. (2013). Convivial toolbox: Generative research for the front end of design. Lawrence King Publishing. 
• State of Victoria, Department of Sustainability and Environment. (2005). Effective engagement: Building relationships with community and other stakeholders. Book 3: The Engagement toolkit. https://www.betterevaluation.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/effective%20engagement%20book%203.pdf
• 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
• Wang C, Burris MA. Photovoice: Concept, Methodology, and Use for Participatory Needs Assessment. Health Education & Behavior. 1997;24(3):369-387. https://doi.org/10.1177/109019819702400309
• Wates, N. (2014). The community planning handbook, 2nd edition. Routledge.

Participatory Methods for Data Analysis and Interpretation

• Cashman, S. B., Adeky, S., Allen III, A. J., Corburn, J., Israel, B. A., Montaño, J., ... & Eng, E. (2008). The power and the promise: working with communities to analyze data, interpret findings, and get to outcomes. American journal of public health, 98(8), 1407-1417. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2007.113571
• Grant, A., McNamara, T., Cooper, J., Dvorak, S., Dolling, A., Ellis, R., ... & Brown, A. (2024). Analysing data with members of a stigmatised community: experiences, reflections and recommendations for best practice from the finding the formula community analysis group. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241229983
• Jackson, S.F. (2008). A Participatory Group Process to Analyze Qualitative Data. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action 2(2), 161-170. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cpr.0.0010
• López-Zerón, G., Bilbao-Nieva, M. I., & Clements, K. A. V. (2021). Conducting Member Checks With Multilingual Research Participants From Diverse Backgrounds. Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.35844/001c.24412
• Switzer, S., & Flicker, S. (2021). Visualizing DEPICT: A multistep model for participatory analysis in photovoice research for social change. Health Promotion Practice, 22(2_suppl), 50S-65S. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248399211045017
• Vaccaro, M. E. (2023). Reflections on ‘doing’ participatory data analysis with women experiencing long-term homelessness. Action Research, 21(3), 332-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476750320974429
• Shea, M. V. (2025). Developing methodologies for co-production of knowledge: Data production and analysis in community-based research partnerships. Qualitative Inquiry, 31(1), 3-18.