PRÊMIO DE RESULTADOS E IMPACTO NA COMUNIDADE

Purpose: The Community Outcomes and Impact Award recognizes excellence in service-learning and community engaged research that advances community outcomes and impacts. While all SLCE scholarship should contribute to community-based stakeholders, this award recognizes research that has had a significant impact on an organization or program, and/or measurably benefited a community. 

Eligibility: Any scholar (or team of scholars) with a distinguished body of high-impact contributions, indicating sustained field-building commitment and activity. “Scholar” as used here encompasses those who self-define as “researchers,” “scholars,” or “practitioner-scholars” and does not imply any particular academic status.

Evaluation Criteria

  1. Community impact. Research has had a measurable and sustained impact on an organization, program, or community, such as improvements to public policies and practices, program outcomes, organizational changes, and/or public engagement.

  2. Reciprocity and engagement. Research carried out in partnership with - and to address the needs and questions of - an organization, agency, or other community stakeholders. Scholarship guided by principles of reciprocity, mutual respect, shared authority, and co-creation.

  3. Rigor and quality. Methods of inquiry that are appropriate to the question/issue and context and meet the highest standards of academic rigor. 

  4. Generativity: Scholarship that deepens understanding of SLCE in specific places, spaces, and settings in ways that expand involvement, improve or inspire practice, generate opportunities for further inquiry, advance collaboration or co-creation in scholarly production, and/or generate new knowledge.

  5. Special consideration is given to research that measurably benefits communities experiencing marginalization and addresses the community’s self-identified needs through equitable partnership.

Nomination Packet

  1. Uma carta de indicação (não superior a duas páginas) elaborada por colegas acadêmicos, alunos e/ou parceiros da comunidade, resumindo a contribuição do candidato e estabelecendo sua importância no avanço do conhecimento, no aprofundamento da pesquisa e da prática e/ou no impacto das políticas (cartas em coautoria são bem-vindas).

    1. The nomination should be made by a current IARSLCE member.

  2. Uma carta de apoio (não superior a uma página) atestando a qualidade e o impacto do trabalho do candidato (cartas em coautoria são bem-vindas). Aceitamos cartas de apoio de indivíduos/organizações mais envolvidos ou impactados pelo trabalho do acadêmico.

  3. Uma publicação ou outro produto acadêmico representativo do trabalho do candidato que atenda aos critérios do prêmio.

  4. Uma declaração do candidato (não excedendo duas páginas) articulando objetivos, procedimentos de pesquisa, resultados e direções futuras (opcional)

  5. Uma cópia atualizada do currículo ou curriculum vitae do candidato.