Community-Engaged Research Initiative

Research "With" — Strengthening Societal Impact Via Partnered Research

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Our vision: UC Berkeley as the leading public impact university, amplifying the societal impact of our research mission and advancing the wellbeing of the state, the nation, and the world. 

Our community-engaged research mission is to transform the culture and ecosystem at UC Berkeley to strengthen reciprocal research with partnerships that generate societally impactful scholarship, and values diverse investigators and partners outside of campus. UC Berkeley stands proudly at the forefront of academic excellence and research for the public good. Working with community, policy, and industry partners, Berkeley scholars generate new evidence and innovations. See below for our progress, community-engaged impact stories, and resources. 

Research Partnership Impact Stories

These initiatives highlight just a few of the hundreds of Berkeley scholars who work closely with community, public, and private sector experts outside the university to co-construct partnered research for long term societal impact.

Learn more about Berkeley’s community engaged research work across campus. To learn about specific Berkeley faculty doing community-engaged research, you can use this expertise finder(link is external) and search for “community-engaged.” To contact us, please email: CEResearch@berkeley.edu

Information & Resources

Community-Engaged Research Explained in 101 Seconds

Community-engaged research explained in 101 seconds | 101 in 101

Community-engaged scholarship is about taking the knowledge, tools, and nerdiness of Berkeley and applying them to the real issues and problems that communities face, helping them understand them as deeply and contextually as possible so that we can create solutions that actually have a chance of succeeding.
Lisa García Bedolla, Vice Provost for graduate studies and professor in the School of Education