Institute for Community Research - Margaret R. Weeks, Executive Director

Youth researcher presents findings

The Joseph A. Zita Memorial Lecture Series: Community Development through the Arts: Making the Connections
Jean J. Schensul and Colleen L. Coleman

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ICR Research Associate Kristin Kostick, Ph.D. was recently accepted as a 2011 Fellow into The Fordham University HIV Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI), a competitive program offering early career investigators research ethics training and financial support for a 2-year mentored research project that contributes to evidence-based HIV prevention research ethics practices. Dr. Kostick’s project will use qualitative methodologies to explore the role of communication between research staff and patients involved in a peer-delivered HIV risk and harm reduction program for injection drug users (IDUs) in Hartford, CT. This study aims to explore whether enhanced communication of patient concerns and experiences with research staff may contribute to existing strategies within the program to address patient rehabilitation and safety in peer-delivered drug treatment interventions.

Executive Director Margaret Weeks, Ph.D., contributes practical advice and information about conducting research in a series of video interviews. Her topics include the application of anthropological principles to community-based research, challenges with supervising staff in fieldwork situations, international research partnerships: critical local connections and setting up a local partnership, and challenges with translating a Hartford, CT survey for use in China.

ICR's JiangHong Li, Ph.D. was awarded an NIDA grant for IDU peer recruitment dynamics and network structure in respondent driven sampling. The study will run from 2011-2014.

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Rugs of Remembrance:
Bosnian Weaving
in Hartford

Exhibit opening 11/3 | 5-7 PM
ICR Gallery