A new book published by UNBC’s Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies team offers expert advice on the crucial relationship between communities and researchers.

Titled Doing Community-Based Research: Perspectives from the Field, the book provides guidance and insight into the opportunities and challenges associated with conducting research and ensuring that it generates both excellent scholarship and positive impacts in the communities where the research takes place.

It also outlines the main stages of the community-based research (CBR) process to help guide both researchers and practitioners. They discuss the reasons for conducting CBR, provide tips on how to design research, detail how researchers and communities should get to know one another, as well as how best to work in the field, and how to turn fieldwork into research that counts.

The book’s authors include UNBC Geography Professor Dr. Greg Halseth who is also the Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies at UNBC; Dr. Sean Markey, an associate professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University; Laura Ryser, the Research Manager of UNBC’s Rural and Small Town Studies Team and Don Manson, a community-based researcher and educator working with the communities and people of northern B.C.

The book is available through McGill-Queen’s University Press at http://www.mqup.ca/doing-community-based-research-products-9780773547285.php