April 2, 2025
"Community members see researchers come and go, and they disappear after data collection, leaving nothing meaningful."
Their work exemplifies a growing brand of research known as community-engaged scholarship. This approach emphasizes collaboration with the groups being studied to ensure alignment with a community’s values, instead of extractive scenarios in which researchers might parachute in without much buy-in from or knowledge of the community and neglect follow-up once data-gathering is done.
— Julian Chun-Chung Chow, Professor, quoted in UC Berkeley News, "The complex story of how the pandemic impacted the Asian American diaspora" .
UC Berkeley News