Ideas for Engaged Research, Teaching, and Practice
Selected Chapters and Books
Engaging Communication, Transforming Organizations: Scholarship of Engagement in Action edited by Jennifer Lyn Simpson and Pamela Shockley-Zalabak (2005).
Communication Activism Research for Social Justice (2007) by Lawrence R. Frey and Kevin M. Carragee.
Engaged Scholarship: A Guide for Organizational and Social Research (2007) by Andrew H. Van de Ven.
Participatory Action Research: Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry (2019) by Jacques M. Chevalier and Daniel J. Buckles.
The Handbook of Applied Communication Research (2020) edited by H. Dan O’Hair and Mary John O’Hair.
Promoting Urban Social Justice through Engaged Communication Scholarship (2021) by George Villanueva.
“Engaged Scholarship Approaches to Qualitative Organizational Communication Research” by J. Kevin Barge and Anna Wiederhold Wolfe in The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication (2024).
Selected Articles
Wolfe and Champine (2023) compiled this list for their article (cited below) reviewing engaged communication scholarship.
“Engaging Communication for Social Change: A Critical Examination of the Participatory Paradigm” by Thomas L. Jacobson and Servaes Jan in the Journal of Communication (1999).
“Practical Engagements and Co-Created Research” by Jennifer Lyn Simpson and David R. Seibold in the Journal of Applied Communication Research (2008).
“Engaged Communication in Public Health: Strategies for Effective Outreach” by Lee Ann Kahlor and Patricia Stout in Health Communication (2010).
“Engaged Communication in Crisis Contexts: Lessons from Natural Disasters” by Timothy L. Sellnow and Robert R. Ulmer in the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (2012).
“The Five Faces of Engaged Scholarship: Implications for Feminist Research” by Linda L. Putnam and Sarah E. Dempsey in Women & Language (2015).
“Explicating the Relationally Attentive Approach to Conducting Engaged Communication Scholarship” by Stacey L., Connaughton et al. in the Journal of Applied Communication Research (2017).
“Making Time / Making Temporality for Engaged Scholarship.” by Joshua B. Barbour, Dawna I. Ballard, Kevin Barge & Rebecca Gill in the Journal of Applied Communication Research (2017).
“Engaged Scholarship: A Call for Institutional Transformation” by Andrew J. Hoffman in Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement (2019).
“Engaged Communication Scholarship for Environmental Justice: A Call to Action” by Chad Raphael in Environmental Communication (2019).
“Developing a Grounded Practical Theory of Engaged Communication Scholarship: Theorizing Communities of Practice in NCA Journals”by Anna Wiederhold Wolfe and Tyler Champine, published in theJournal of Applied Communication Research (2023).
Selected SYLLABI and Assignments
Dr. Anna Wiederhold Wolfe’s syllabus for Engaged Communication Research (COMM 689).
Dr. Joshua Barbour’s syllabus for Engaged Communication Scholarship.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s interdisciplinary certificate program, the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research. Dr. Pat Parker helped create this program, and serves on its board. Consult Dr. Parker and colleagues’ article describing the program, “Decolonizing the Academy: Lessons From the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,” published at Qualitative Inquiry.
