Category: commentary
(Teacher walks to the front of a classroom.) Teacher: Good morning everyone, let’s get started. Student: This sucks! Teacher: Excuse me? (grimacing, eyes narrowing) Student: You heard me (student glares)…. Read More
PubTrawlr is sponsoring SCRA Conference 2021! Only one week until the biennial Society for Community Research and Action Conference starting on June 22. SCRA is Division 27 of the American… Read More
Recently, we wrote about recent trends in health equity research. Health equity is growing in prominence among researchers and community practitioners because, well, health outcomes are different for different populations…. Read More
There’s an urgent need for mental health researchers and practitioners to stay up to date with research on suicidology. Practitioners, though, often struggle to find time to really dig into… Read More
Before we close the book on May 2021 and get charged up for the upcoming SCRA conference, let’s take a last minute to look backward! It was kind of a… Read More
Here in the United States, Memorial Day weekend represents the official-unofficial start of summer. We Americans like to celebrate with parades, flag-waving, picnics, cook-outs, baseball; all the nice stereotypical things…. Read More
“If you want to truly understand something, try to change it,” said Kurt Lewin, one of the early pioneers of social psychology and action research. He spent years using scientific… Read More
In scientific literature, the word abstract is an oxymoron. Allow me to explain. When I think of the word “abstract,” I think of words like: implicit, subtextual, emotional. But a… Read More