Community-Engaged Research from Principles to Practice 4: Cross-disciplinary Training & Leadership - Mar. 3, 2027

A strong research question is not enough to lead a community-engaged project. Success depends on identifying the right collaborators, fostering relationships, and building capacity.

Join us for Session 4 of Community-Engaged Research from Principles to Practice, a six-session virtual series that gives researchers and community partners a practical, evidence-based foundation for building research partnerships with communities.

This session shares approaches for identifying collaborators, clarifying each partner's roles and responsibilities, and moving a partnership toward shared leadership through concrete tools like ground rules, role definitions, and formal agreements.

It can be completed as a standalone workshop, though we encourage participants to complete the full series for a comprehensive foundation in community-engaged research in order to receive the Certificate of Series Completion.

Developed by the Institute for Translational Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch and adapted by CRIS for the Canadian context and for researchers across all disciplines, each session combines interactive presentations, case studies from U of T researcher-community partnerships and facilitated peer discussions.

Moderator: To be announced.

Presenters:
Claire Hallmark, Program Director, Community Outcomes & Evaluation, Institute for Translational Sciences, The University of Texas Medical Branch

Dr. Sharon Croisant, Professor Emeritus, School of Public and Population Health, University of Texas Medical Branch

Dr. Lance Hallberg, Program Director Environmental & Public Health Education and Engagement, University of Texas Medical Branch

U of T Guest Case Study Presenters: To be announced

By the end of this session, participants will be able to: 

• Identify potential key collaborators to participate in community-academic partnerships to address significant issues and disparities of importance to communities  
• Recognize how academic institutions and community organizations each bring distinct priorities, structures, and constraints to a research partnership 
• Clarify each team member's responsibility through the research process, and apply appropriate models of peer engagement and their value 
• Describe approaches for co-developing study questions with community partners and grounding research methods in community experience 

Intended audience:   

This series is open to the University of Toronto and TAHSN faculty interested in building their community-engaged research competencies and their research teams. We welcome and encourage researchers to invite community partners to participate. Members or collaborators of the same team or project should register individually.