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BU School of Social Work: BUSSW Faculty & BU CTSI Launch New Communities Connecting to Research Course

Communities Connecting to Research

Prof. Linda Sprague Martinez and Deborah Chassler, BUSSW Senior Academic Researcher, released Communities Connecting to Research, a new free online course that aims to improve the relationships between academic researchers and their communities. The course is funded by the BU Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Community Engagement Program, and will be distributed online by The Network for Professional Education at BUSSW. 

Excerpt from “Communities Connecting to Research: BUSSW Faculty & BU CTSI Launch New Course Distributed by The Network for Professional Education” originally published on the BUSSW website: 

“If we don’t know what we don’t know, it’s hard to think about what questions to ask. Our goal is to describe the process of partnerships and different ways to participate in research. Transparency includes knowing how the systems work and what to expect along the way.”

Read the full article here.