Blog Posts
- Meaningful Engaged Efforts and Sustainable Environmental Justice Actions in Santa Ana By: Connie Valencia I. Sustainability of Environmental Justice Efforts in Santa Ana Sustainability results from socially equitable policies that address… Read more: Meaningful Engaged Efforts and Sustainable Environmental Justice Actions in Santa Ana
- Part Two: Working as a Team Science Facilitator with the GREEN-MPNA/UCI Collaborative By Ian BaranAlongside Connie Valencia, another Research Justice Shop fellow, I worked with the Madison Park Neighborhood Association – Getting Residents Engaged… Read more: Part Two: Working as a Team Science Facilitator with the GREEN-MPNA/UCI Collaborative By Ian Baran
- Part 1: Clarity of Roles for a Successful Team Science Approach By Ian BaranClarity is an important practice for any collaboration. It provides the basis for communication and supports building trust. For this… Read more: Part 1: Clarity of Roles for a Successful Team Science Approach By Ian Baran
- RJS Introduces 2022-23 Newkirk FellowsRJS introduces the 2022-2023 Newkirk Fellows. 10 graduate student fellows will partner with community-based organizations to produce and analyze scientific… Read more: RJS Introduces 2022-23 Newkirk Fellows
- RJS welcomes Brianna Ramirez, PhD, as the inaugural postdoctoral scholar with the Shop!
Brianna R. Ramirez, Ph.D. was born and raised in Long Beach, California with family roots in Guanajuato and Jalisco, México.… Read more: RJS welcomes Brianna Ramirez, PhD, as the inaugural postdoctoral scholar with the Shop! - RJS Welcomes New Social Media InternsOur two new social media interns for the 2022-2023 academic year are Abigail Thomas and Sakhi Patel! Through curating content… Read more: RJS Welcomes New Social Media Interns
- Coming Full Circle: How one OC native went from community member to researcher by Stephanie Guizar
The Research Justice Shop (RJS) was founded to transform research practices to be more inclusive by facilitating equitable collaboration between… Read more: Coming Full Circle: How one OC native went from community member to researcher by Stephanie Guizar - Bridging the Gap: The Benefits of Scientific communication for Scientists and Society by Mulatwa Haile
Science and society have a symbiotic relationship. Approximately 50% of scientific research is funded by and dependent on taxpayer money… Read more: Bridging the Gap: The Benefits of Scientific communication for Scientists and Society by Mulatwa Haile - Hispanic Serving Institutions and Community Based Research: How the Research Justice Shop is bridging the gap between scholarship and communities by Marilyn Garcia
Hispanic Serving Institutions The University of California, Irvine (UCI) received the Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) designation in 2016. The HSI… Read more: Hispanic Serving Institutions and Community Based Research: How the Research Justice Shop is bridging the gap between scholarship and communities by Marilyn Garcia - MPNA-GREEN – UCI Team Science Collaborative: Lessons for Advancing Community-led Goals by Ian Baran
Team science has been the key method of the UCI-MPNA collaborative, and has provided an infrastructure for multiple projects to… Read more: MPNA-GREEN – UCI Team Science Collaborative: Lessons for Advancing Community-led Goals by Ian Baran - Madison Park Neighborhood Association and the Environmental Justice movement in Santa Ana by Connie Valencia
Background and History Madison Park Neighborhood Association-Getting Residents Engaged in Exercise and Nutrition (MPNA-GREEN) is a local non-profit organization established… Read more: Madison Park Neighborhood Association and the Environmental Justice movement in Santa Ana by Connie Valencia - What Does Theatre Have to Offer to Community-Based Research? by Chengyuan Huang
In my second year as a doctoral student from the Drama department, I became a 2020-2021 Newkirk Fellow with the… Read more: What Does Theatre Have to Offer to Community-Based Research? by Chengyuan Huang - Out of our hands: Guiding research by the flow of water by Ethan Rubin
Time is always an important and challenging factor in a research project. Especially in a partnership that brings multiple people… Read more: Out of our hands: Guiding research by the flow of water by Ethan Rubin - Civic Data and Infrastructure in Community-Based Research by Tim Schütz
Throughout my training as a social scientist, I have returned to the question of how community activists use science and… Read more: Civic Data and Infrastructure in Community-Based Research by Tim Schütz - Chipping Away at the Lead Crises through Community Activism by David Bañuelas
(As lead paints chip away, the chance for residential lead exposure increases. Photo PxFuel) Lead across the US Lead contamination… Read more: Chipping Away at the Lead Crises through Community Activism by David Bañuelas - Rethinking Time and Support in Community-based Research: In Pursuit of Research Justice by Margaret Goldman
My name is Margaret, and I’m entering my fourth year in the department of Criminology, Law and Society at UCI. Community-oriented… Read more: Rethinking Time and Support in Community-based Research: In Pursuit of Research Justice by Margaret Goldman - Involving the Public in the Scientific Process by Veronica Gonzalez
My name is Veronica Valencia Gonzalez, I am a 5th year doctoral student in the Social Ecology PhD program and… Read more: Involving the Public in the Scientific Process by Veronica Gonzalez - Community-based Air Quality Monitoring Project Infographic by: Desirée Greenhouse, MPP, 2020
Desirée Greenhouse was a Newkirk Graduate Student Fellows with the Research Justice Shop from 2019 – 2020. She shared this… Read more: Community-based Air Quality Monitoring Project Infographic by: Desirée Greenhouse, MPP, 2020 - Listening sessions with communities across the Santa Ana Watershed by: Briana Villaverde (UCI Environmental Science & Policy Major, ’22)
Brianna Villaverde, a 2019-2020 undergraduate researcher working with the Research Justice Shop, shared this infographic with participants of the Research… Read more: Listening sessions with communities across the Santa Ana Watershed by: Briana Villaverde (UCI Environmental Science & Policy Major, ’22) - Exploring Invisibility: Thoughts on Orange County Air Quality and Community Resilience by Brenna Biggs, Newkirk Fellow 2019-20
Invisibility… Imagine being able to sneak about, completely unseen. For kids — and even some adult introverts — invisibility seems… Read more: Exploring Invisibility: Thoughts on Orange County Air Quality and Community Resilience by Brenna Biggs, Newkirk Fellow 2019-20
About the Blog
Welcome to the Research Justice Shop (formerly Community-based Research Initiative) located at the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at the University of California, Irvine. We are thrilled to formally introduce ourselves on the Newkirk website and through this post, launch the blog series! We hope that you return often to learn about what we are doing and to get involved. Read more…
In 2018 with seed funding from the Newkirk Center for Science & Society, Drs. Victoria Lowerson Bredow and Connie McGuire founded the Community-based Research Initiative, now called the Research Justice Shop (RJS). As co-directors, through the RJS we work to make research practices and products more inclusive, equitable, and participatory.
What you can expect from this website:
- Monthly posts about Research Justice Shop activities
- Stories about our collaboration with community partners
- Posts by graduate student fellows
- Tools, resources, and other relevant content
- Information about events including the Research Justice Workshop Series and Certificate
- Information about the Newkirk Graduate Student Fellowship
Thank you for visiting the website and we hope to see you soon!
Victoria & Connie
Co-directors
Research Justice Shop
Newkirk Center for Science & Society
University of California, Irvine
Land of the Acjachemen and Tongva nations
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