What is Community-Engaged Research?
See: https://engage.iupui.edu/research/community-engaged-research/index.html. For the purposes of IRB at IU, community-engaged research is defined as research that "includes the meaningful involvement of community partners in the research process, including but not limited to topic development, need identification, research design, conduct of research, and/or sharing of results."
The Bantz Community Fellowship initiative includes two awards: the Charles R. Bantz Community Fellowship Award ($40,000) and the Charles R. Bantz Community Scholar Award ($25,000). The awards are funded through charitable gifts and campus funding. Both awards are further supported by the Office for Translating Research into Practice (TRIP), Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of Community Engagement, and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
The Bantz Community Fellowship and Bantz Community Scholar awards provide up to one year of research support for a collaborative research team made up of IUPUI faculty and students, which may also include staff. Working with a named Community Partner organization, the team will be brought together to address a pressing community issue, primarily in Central Indiana or in the awardee’s campus region.
About the Bantz Community Fellowship and Scholar Awards:
The Bantz Community Fellowship Award is intended to support and advance the work of established researchers with significant connections in the community. Bantz Community Fellowship awardees should have a body of research and history of working in/with the community that have led to the proposed project, and be able to demonstrate established partnerships within the community and with the named community partner(s). This award is intended to provide support to a research team to build upon an existing body of research and deep connections in the community, and ideally with the named community partner(s). Because this award will support a researcher team to deepen existing research, it is expected that after one year of research, Bantz Fellowship awardees will have achieved significant advancement of the proposed research agenda and be able to demonstrate impact in the community. Impact may be defined as and include the adoption of innovative policies, measurable increases in awareness, implementation of programs and services, and/or changes in attitudes among stakeholders.
Bantz Community Fellow Designation. The Bantz Community Fellow must be an IUPUI faculty member who serves as the Primary Investigator on the project. The team must include student researchers and community partners, and may include expertise and leadership from a Co-PI. The Faculty Fellow may (but is not required to) name one student with significant responsibility on the project as the Student Fellow, and one community organization (usually the primary community research partner) as the Community Fellow on the research team.
The Bantz Community Scholar Award is supported by the IUPUI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) to encourage new and promising researchers to support community-driven goals while advancing their own research agenda. Bantz Community Scholar funding is intended to support applied techniques to achieve community-driven goals. Bantz Community Scholar awardees also may propose pilot studies that include testing and exploration of novel techniques, innovations, and applications if specifically aligned with community-driven goals.
Bantz Community Scholar Designation. The Bantz Community Scholar must be an IUPUI faculty member who serves as the Primary Investigator on the project. The team may include expertise and leadership from a Co-PI, and must include student researchers and at least one community partner. The Faculty Scholar may (but is not required to) name the Co-PI as a Faculty Scholar, one student with significant responsibility on the project as the Student Scholar, and one community organization (usually the primary community research partner) as the Community Scholar on the team.