Bridging Practices: Deepening Collaboration in Community-engaged Research and IRB Process
2025-10-30 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Namaste Lounge, 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Building on last April’s Bridging Perspectives: Navigating Community-Engaged Research and IRB Requirements, this Building Practices colloquium 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
Lora Bartlett, Associate Professor of Education and Department Chair
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 B.Y.O. lunch time colloquium event. Event sponsors will provide drinks and snacks.
For more information, please visit the event website.
Sponsors: Campus + Community and the Office of Research
