May 10-14, 2011

Presentation Formats

Skill building/learning workshops

In these workshops, presenters will teach and discuss particular skills and techniques involved in doing community based research and/or community-university partnerships for change. The session should accomplish specific learning objectives and increase the participants’ competence in an important area of the conference themes and objectives. It should include opportunities for practice and feedback. Please indicate workshop objectives, agenda, and participation processes. Workshops will be 90 minutes in length.

Roundtables

Roundtables will provide an opportunity for discussion on important themes and issues relevant to community university partnerships and collaborations. This can include presentations of ideas in development, evaluations or other in contexts relevant to the conferences themes and goals, and might include opportunity for collective problem solving of identified challenges. A submission to facilitate a roundtable must include a summary describing the problem or issue, its significance, the questions to be posed, and a plan for engaging the participants. Sessions will be 20-30 minutes.

Storytelling

Stories reflect the genuine and authentic experience of an individual or a community, which has importance and value. Stories should be consistent with the conference theme, goals, and objectives. For example, story sessions could involve a story of a successful or less than successful attempt to involve faculty by community organizations in community research projects, or how an attempt to change community policies or practices through a research project went in a completely different direction. Storytelling sessions will be 30 minutes in length.

Oral Presentations

Oral presentations will be focused on reports of research results, theory and inquiry related to the conference themes. Presentations may be submitted individually or jointly as a panel session (submitted by the panel lead). We strongly encourage community member participation for presentations with academics. Individual presentations will be approximately 20 minutes each, with a total of 90 minutes allocated for each session.

Poster Sessions

A dedicated venue will be established for the display of posters illustrating research outcomes, describing ongoing projects, and elaborating the experience of a community-university partnership. Presenters must be available at their poster to answer questions at a designated time during the conference. Posters may include photographs, statistical tables, figures, charts, or other graphic material relevant to the project. Some posters will be clustered with others around specific themes to provide increase learning and networking opportunities.

Other Creative Formats

We encourage presenters to submit activities that are arts-based such as film, skits, dramatizations, poetry, art work, photo-voice or other expressive and artistic forms. Please provide details on the presentation format in your abstract. Arts-based sessions will be held throughout the conference.