Team 4 promotes community engagement and establishes methods to build participatory relationships with community partners to help address the Network’s overall transdisciplinary goals of integrating science with practice. The work of Team 4 is connected to several guiding research questions, including:
- How do community engagement strategies build capacity to sustain vision?
- How can environmental barriers be overcome to achieve human well-being?
- How can techniques (e.g., data visualization, technology, geolocation, creative place-making, social media platforms) improve participation and ground new research models?
- How can engaged scholarship and service learning bridge community needs with research at Iowa State University?
Team 4 is led by Dr. Katie Richardson Bruna and Dr. Connie Beecher. For more information or to get involved, contact uturn_team4@iastate.edu for more information
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