Partnerships between community-based researchers and university researchers

The FNI project offers many examples of how community-based research methods are translated into practice. It shows how university-based researchers and community-based researchers can work together to generate mutually-beneficial results.

• Here researchers Brian Beaton, David Perley, Chris George and Susan O’Donnell share some insights using examples from the FNI project   Engaging Remote Marginalized Communities Using Appropriate Online Research Methods, a chapter from the The Sage handbook of online research methods second addition from 2017.
• Here O’Donnell and Beaton share their approach that they developed while working with northern and remote First Nations in Canada in their 2018 article A “whole-community” approach for sustainable digital infrastructure in remote and Northern First Nations.

The video below is from the FNI principal investigator, Dr. Susan O’Donnell from the University of New Brunswick (UNB). Susan is a senior research officer at the National Research Council Institute of Information Technology on the UNB campus, and an adjunct professor in the UNB Department of Sociology. Her research focuses is the use of ICT in remote, rural and Aboriginal communities. In the video, Dr. O’Donnell describes her approach to research in the FNI project.