PREMIO A LOS RESULTADOS Y EL IMPACTO EN LA COMUNIDAD

Purpose: The Community Outcomes and Impact Award recognizes excellence in service-learning and community engaged research that advances community outcomes and impacts. While all SLCE scholarship should contribute to community-based stakeholders, this award recognizes research that has had a significant impact on an organization or program, and/or measurably benefited a community. 

Eligibility: Any scholar (or team of scholars) with a distinguished body of high-impact contributions, indicating sustained field-building commitment and activity. “Scholar” as used here encompasses those who self-define as “researchers,” “scholars,” or “practitioner-scholars” and does not imply any particular academic status.

Evaluation Criteria

  1. Community impact. Research has had a measurable and sustained impact on an organization, program, or community, such as improvements to public policies and practices, program outcomes, organizational changes, and/or public engagement.

  2. Reciprocity and engagement. Research carried out in partnership with - and to address the needs and questions of - an organization, agency, or other community stakeholders. Scholarship guided by principles of reciprocity, mutual respect, shared authority, and co-creation.

  3. Rigor and quality. Methods of inquiry that are appropriate to the question/issue and context and meet the highest standards of academic rigor. 

  4. Generativity: Scholarship that deepens understanding of SLCE in specific places, spaces, and settings in ways that expand involvement, improve or inspire practice, generate opportunities for further inquiry, advance collaboration or co-creation in scholarly production, and/or generate new knowledge.

  5. Special consideration is given to research that measurably benefits communities experiencing marginalization and addresses the community’s self-identified needs through equitable partnership.

Nomination Packet

  1. Una carta de nominación (que no exceda las dos páginas) redactada por colegas académicos, estudiantes y/o socios comunitarios en la que se resuma la contribución del candidato y se establezca su importancia en el avance del conocimiento, la profundización de la investigación y la práctica, y/o el impacto en las políticas (se aceptan cartas coescritas).

    1. The nomination should be made by a current IARSLCE member.

  2. Una carta de apoyo (que no exceda una página) que certifique la calidad y el impacto del trabajo del candidato (se aceptan cartas coautoras). Agradecemos las cartas de apoyo de personas u organizaciones más involucradas o impactadas por el trabajo del académico.

  3. Una publicación u otro producto académico representativo del trabajo del candidato que cumpla con los criterios del premio.

  4. Una declaración del candidato (que no exceda las dos páginas) en la que se expongan los objetivos, los procedimientos de investigación, los resultados y las orientaciones futuras (opcional).

  5. Una copia actualizada del currículum vitae o historial profesional del candidato.