Speaker: Ryan B. Spellecy, Ph.D., The Ursula Von der Ruhr Professor of Bioethics and Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities Institute for Health and Equity at Medical College of Wisconsin

Abstract: Community-Engaged Research (CEnR) is a research method in which community partners and academic ressearchers share the responsibility and ownership of a research project. This method, while time-consuming and challenging, can be immensely rewarding and truly impact communities for the better. Additionally, CEnR has downstream effects that can serve to build trust between communities and researchers, helping the researchers become more trustworthy in the eyes of the community and fulfill the Bellmont principle of justice. This talk will define what CEnR is and how researchers can engage in CEnR by exploring the speaker's own CEnR projects and demonstrating how CEnR can build trustworthiness in academic researchers and advance justice.