Popularizing Scholarly Research Working with Nonacademic Stakeholders, Teams, and Communities

A scholar's guide for to conducting ethical research with various communities

Though the arena of scholarship grows and changes, collaboration and community remain vital aspects of research and public scholarship. Popularizing Scholarly Research: Working with Nonacademic Stakeholders, Teams, and Communities contextualizes research methods and practices for popularizing research involving teams, communities, and nonacademic stakeholders. Patricia Leavy introduces the move toward making scholarship more accessible outside of academic settings. Drawing from the authoritative Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship a diversified list of interdisciplinary contributors cover social movements, ethical issues working with vulnerable populations, outsider-insider issues, citizens' juries, community-based research, participatory action research, community art-making, theatre, cross-cultural research, decolonizing methods, team research and disaster research. Further supplemental materials included at the end of the book make this title an important addition to any modern researcher's bookshelf.

Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is an independent sociologist and bestselling author. She has published over thirty books, earning commercial and critical success in both nonfiction and fiction, and her work has been translated into many languages. Among her book publications, she is the author of Method
Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice, now in its third edition, and Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Approaches. She is series creator and editor for ten book series with Oxford University Press, Guilford Press, and
Brill/Sense, including the ground-breaking Social Fictions series. She is also cofounder and co-editor-in-chief of Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari. She has received numerous accolades for her books. Recently, her novel
Film won the 2020 American Fiction Award for Inspirational Fiction, her novel Spark won the 2019 American Fiction Award for Inspirational Fiction and the 2019 Living Now Book Award for Adventure Fiction, and her Handbook of Arts-Based Research won the 2018 USA Best Book Award for best academic book.
She has received career awards from the New England Sociological Association, the American Creativity Association, the American Educational Research Association, the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, and the National Art Education Association. In 2018, she was honored by the National
Women's Hall of Fame and SUNY-New Paltz established the "Patricia Leavy Award for Art and Social Justice." Her website is www.patricialeavy.com.

Popularizing Scholarly Research: Working with Nonacademic Stakeholders, Teams, and Communities

Preface

1. Introducing Methods for Working with Nonacademic Stakeholders, Teams, and Communities, Patricia Leavy
2. Composing an Undivided Life as an Activist/Scholar: Methods for Practicing Engaged Social Movement Scholarship, Adria D. Goodson
3. Ethical Issues Working with Vulnerable Populations, Isabel Araiza
4. Outsiders-Within: Counternarratives, Cultural Productions, and Crossing-Over, Venus E. Evans-Winters, Theresa Y. Robinson, Norris Chase, Teresa Lawrence Jones
5. Citizens' Juries Michel P. Pimbert
6. Ethical Challenges Community-Based Researchers and Community-Based Organizations Face: Can We Still Work Together?, Margaret Boyd
7. Participatory Action Research: A Theoretical and Critical Introduction, Caroline Lenette and Natasha Nesvaderani
8. The Impossible Task of Community Art Practice: A Methodological Micro-Guide for Seven Young Chicagoans, Jorge Lucero and William Estrada
9. They Come and Ask Us to Build It: Mirror Theatre's Story of Relationships with Stakeholders
10. For the Sake of Humanity: Research on Cross-Cultural Collaborative Arts for Public Health, Wendy L. Sternberg
11. (Un)Settling Imagined Lands: A Par/Des(i) Approach to De/colonizing Methodologies, Kakali Bhattacharya
12. Team Research, Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier & Judith Davidson
13. Disaster Research: Past, Present, and Future, Mark R. Landahl, Deedee M. Bennett, and Brenda D. Phillips