What is this service?
The Community Engagement (CE) Studio provides an opportunity for researchers to enhance their research project during an interactive session with patients, caregivers, health care providers, community members, and other non-researcher stakeholders. A panel of stakeholders, whose characteristics are defined by the researcher, will be assembled to provide feedback to enhance your research project.
During the CE Studio, researchers can gather input from his/her community of interest or patient group about:
Research project design
Informed consent development and the consent process
Incentives for research participation
Participant recruitment processes
Developing culturally and linguistically appropriate study materials
Understanding and interpreting research results
Sharing research results with the community
The stakeholders who participate in studios are members of the population or community that the researcher wishes to involve in his/her research study. They are experts in their community’s culture, literacy levels, translation needs, history, and past experiences with research.
Who can use this service?
Anyone looking to strengthen their research idea and application as well as those currently conducting research with human subjects at U-M can use this service. This includes principal investigators, study teams, post-docs, K scholars, etc.
When should I contact MICHR about this service?
This service runs on a first-come, first-served basis. There are 12 slots available for the year. Should applications exceed that number, we will form a waiting list for cancellations.
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How much does this service cost?
Facilitator cost, supplies, and staff time are covered by MICHR.
Researcher testimonies:
“I am full of gratitude every time I think back to it. I learned so much from the generosity of the participants and from being part of the event and experiencing how you orchestrated it.”
“We’ve gathered some (mostly positive!) feedback about our workstream and project plans; participants have also given us some things to mull over as we move forward with the implementation of our strategic goals. We will be in touch in the coming weeks to discuss other partnering opportunities.”
“It provided a great perspective from CHWs in Michigan and I will be using their survey responses and quotes in the grant proposal. I did get about 10 people to respond to the survey so adding that to my large pool of existing data is wonderful. I don’t necessarily need more survey data at this point since then I just have to redo the tables and charts. So you don’t need to remind them about the survey.”
“It was a great start of a new format for soliciting the input of the community members who are vital to our research efforts.”
Stakeholder testimonies:
“I had a thoroughly enjoyable evening during this first-time experience for me, and definitely hope to be invited to more in the future. I truly appreciate and support Michigan Medicine's continued efforts to make the patient experience the best that it can possibly be for patients like me.”
“It was a pleasure meeting up for the CE Studio participation session. I hope the information can be used as they further design clinical trials.”
“The session was very educational and productive.”