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Balancing Power Through Community Building: Setting the Research Agenda on Violence Against Women

Center for Social Work Research at the School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin (1 University Station, D3500, Austin, TX 78712-0359) and Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, hbell{at}mail.utexas.edu

Noël Bridget Busch

School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin and Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Laurie Cook Heffron

Center for Social Work Research at the School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin and Green Leaf Refugee Services Project in Austin

Barbara White

School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin

Maria José Angelelli

Texas Council on Family Violence

Stephanie Rivaux

Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

This article presents a feminist model for collaboration by researchers, practitioners, and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault that focuses on balancing power and building community. Thirty-eight university researchers, survivors, and practitioners met to define and prioritize a research agenda on domestic violence and sexual assault, plan for continued collaboration, and evaluate the community-building process. This article presents data from focus groups, written evaluations, and researcher-participant observations that indicated the research topics that the participants ranked as the most important or useful to them and outlines the participants’ concerns about and suggestions for ongoing collaboration.

Key Words: collaboration • domestic violence • research • sexual assault

Affilia, Vol. 19, No. 4, 404-417 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0886109904268871


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