Building A Research Team: The Struggle to Link the Community and the Academy

Authors

  • Baukje (Bo) Miedema She works in the Fredericton women's movement and does contract teaching and research.

Abstract

When a research team of community and academic members was formed to study issues of family violence in immigrant communities, the team found that although in theory the "academy" is encouraged to work with the "community", in reality structural barriers make this cooperation difficult.

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Published

1996-10-01

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (1996): SPECIAL ISSUE: Connecting Practices Doing Theory

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Original Research

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