TY - JOUR
T1 - Making Space for Community-Engaged Scholarship in Geography
AU - Robinson, Jonnell A.
AU - Hawthorne, Timothy L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Formalized support in the form of mentorship, professional development, and seed funding is critical in advancing engaged scholarship (Hollander, Saltmarsh, and Zlotkowski 2002; Barge and Shockley-Zalabak 2008; Freeman, Gust, and Aloshen 2009). Like traditional forms of scholarship, community-engaged scholarship requires guidance from peers and departmental leadership; exposure to best practices; and financial support for technology, lab space, and people power. Community-engaged scholars are in an increasingly strong position to compete for external funds as key agencies, like the National Science Foundation (NSF), focus on broader impacts to society. Broader impacts, one of NSF’s most important merit review criteria, specifically emphasize contribution to society. Several areas are identified in NSF review criteria for broader impacts, and some of these include community engagement. To be competitive for such awards, however, a track record of institutional support is helpful.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by American Association of Geographers.
PY - 2018/4/3
Y1 - 2018/4/3
N2 - Geography has a long tradition of community-engaged research and teaching. Conventional institutional and departmental norms in many U.S. universities and colleges, however, often discourage such engaged scholarship and teaching, especially among junior faculty. We argue that geographers are well poised to unravel society's twenty-first-century intractable problems if engaged scholarship is more intentionally supported. As community geographers in junior faculty positions at research-intensive universities, we discuss our experiences with placing community engagement at the core of our scholarship, highlighting opportunities for a more robust integration of engaged scholarship in academic geography.
AB - Geography has a long tradition of community-engaged research and teaching. Conventional institutional and departmental norms in many U.S. universities and colleges, however, often discourage such engaged scholarship and teaching, especially among junior faculty. We argue that geographers are well poised to unravel society's twenty-first-century intractable problems if engaged scholarship is more intentionally supported. As community geographers in junior faculty positions at research-intensive universities, we discuss our experiences with placing community engagement at the core of our scholarship, highlighting opportunities for a more robust integration of engaged scholarship in academic geography.
KW - community geography
KW - community-engaged scholarship
KW - participatory geography
KW - public geographies
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U2 - 10.1080/00330124.2017.1366775
DO - 10.1080/00330124.2017.1366775
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85030570424
VL - 70
SP - 277
EP - 283
JO - Professional Geographer
JF - Professional Geographer
SN - 0033-0124
IS - 2
ER -