The complex story of how the pandemic impacted the Asian American diaspora; Julian Chun-Chung Chow in UC Berkeley News

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