Journal article
The INSAR Community Collaborator Request: Using community-academic partnerships to enhance outcomes of participatory autism research
Autism research, v 16(11), pp 2071-2076
Nov 2023
PMID: 37688487
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
Participatory approaches, in which researchers work together with members of the autism community (e.g., autistic people, family members, caregivers, or other stakeholders) to design, conduct, and disseminate research, have become increasingly prominent within the field of autism research over the past decade. Despite growing academic and community interest in conducting participatory studies, stakeholder collaboration remains infrequent in autism research, at least partially due to systemic barriers. To help reduce barriers to engaging in participatory autism research, the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) Autistic Researchers Committee has launched the INSAR Community Collaborator Request (ICCR; https://www.autism-insar.org/page/iccr), a platform on the INSAR website that allows autism researchers conducting participatory research to seek out stakeholder collaborators from the autism community (including both autistic people and their family members/caregivers, as relevant to a given research project). Interested stakeholders also have the opportunity to subscribe to ICCR posts, allowing them to be alerted of new opportunities for collaboration and potentially increasing their involvement in autism research. Overall, the ICCR provides a venue to connect autism researchers with potential community collaborators, reducing barriers to participatory autism research and increasing the frequency of successful community-academic partnerships within the field. We are hopeful that in the long term, such changes will lead to greater alignment between research outputs and the goals of the greater autism community, and consequently an increase in the overall quality and relevance of autism research.
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- Title
- The INSAR Community Collaborator Request: Using community-academic partnerships to enhance outcomes of participatory autism research
- Creators
- Rebecca Poulsen - Macquarie UniversityPatrick Dwyer - University of California, DavisDena Gassner - Towson UniversityMelanie Heyworth - Autism CRCZachary J Williams - Vanderbilt University
- Publication Details
- Autism research, v 16(11), pp 2071-2076
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001064399600001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85170514340
- Other Identifier
- 991022008089404721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- International collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Behavioral Sciences
- Psychology, Developmental