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Brenda Roche

Charting New Directions In Community-Based Research

Community-Based Research (CBR) has evolved into a ‘research strategy of choice’ for the community sector and has increasingly established itself as a credible research approach in the academic sector. With the increasing use and growing currency of CBR, Dr. Brenda Roche belives there is a need to revisit what has become the conventions of CBR, to consider how these are enacted in practice, and to embark on a more critical examination and attentiveness to the practices that shape CBR. The time is ripe for a further significant evolution in CBR, and the Wellesley Institute believes the New Directions In Community-Based Research report will provide the initiative to chart these changes at both the community and academic levels.

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Brenda Roche

Brenda Roche

Brenda Roche is Director of Research at the Wellesley Institute. She was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology and Health at the Gender, Violence and Health Centre of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She comes with academic and community-based research experience exploring social and health issues in urban settings, including homelessness, sexual health, violence and psychological trauma and distress. Her doctorate, through the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, examined discourses on trauma that operate within the context of refugee resettlement, and how these influence health and social care practices for women (and their families) seeking political asylum in the United Kingdom. Brenroche

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We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

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