Ethics in Community-University Partnerships — with Kari Grain

Below the Radar unpacks ethics in community-engaged research and experiential learning with Kari Grain, who has been working with host Am Johal at SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative. Kari speaks to her dissertation on the impacts of international service learning on local community partners. Centering ethical relationships and the unlearning of harmful biases about expertise and knowledge, Kari talks about teaching courses at UBC on community-based participatory research. She and Am also discuss barriers to meaningful and ethical community-engaged research at the institutional level, and the importance of reciprocity and bringing community in through the doors of the university. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/89-kari-grain.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/89-kari-grain.html SFU’s Community Engaged Research Initiative: https://www.sfu.ca/ceri.html Experiential Education at UBC: https://blogs.ubc.ca/experiential/ Bio: Kari Grain is a practitioner-scholar at the intersection of higher education, social justice, and community engagement. She earned her PhD in Education at UBC as a Vanier scholar, where her research focused on local community impacts of international service-learning in Uganda. For the past five years, she has worked as an educational consultant, focusing on experiential education, community-engaged research, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her research has been published in the Journal of Experiential Education, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, and the Canadian Journal of Studies in Adult Education. She is currently a sessional instructor in UBC’s Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Education and has been collaborating in varying capacities with SFU scholars since 2017's Community2University Expo. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Ethics in Community-University Partnerships — with Kari Grain.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 17, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/89-kari-grain.html.