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Bridging Practices: Deepening Collaboration in Community-engaged Research and IRB Process

October 30 @ 11:00 am
UCSC student standing on a bridge looking down

Building on last April’s Bridging Perspectives: Navigating Community-Engaged Research and IRB Requirements, this Building Practices brown bag event continues the conversation between researchers, administrators, and the IRB with a focus on answering the pressing questions raised by our community. Together, we will explore:

  • Involving undergraduates in community-engaged research
  • Navigating IRB requirements in ways that respect cultural, social, and political environments
  • Minimizing harm and risk when conducting research with vulnerable populations and community organizations
  • Ethical quandaries in community-engaged research that the IRB does not cover

Through dialogue and collective problem-solving, this session seeks to move beyond identifying barriers toward developing clearer practices, stronger collaborations, and more practical strategies between researchers and the IRB for supporting ethical community-engaged research.

Roundtable Moderators

  • Regina Day Langhout, Professor of Psychology
  • Sana Khoury-Shakour, Director of the Office of Research Compliance Administration
  • Jessica Taft, Professor of LALS and Director of the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
  • Saskias Casanova, Associate Professor of Psychology
  • Margarita Azmitia, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and IRB chair
  • Heather Bullock, Director of the Center for Economic Justice and Action and Professor of Psychology
  • Ned LeBlond, Managing Director for the Institute of Social Transformation and Campus + Community
  • Rebecca London, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of Campus + Community

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This is a brown bag lunch event. Event sponsors will provide drinks and snacks.

For more information, please visit the event website.

Sponsors: Campus + Community and the Office of Research

Venue

Namaste Lounge
615 College Nine Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
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Last modified: Oct 03, 2025