Seminar “Research for Whom? How to Do Research that Matters
The European Social Survey team at VMU invites researchers, students, and community members to the seminar “Research for Whom? How to Do Research that Matters”, led by Assoc. Professor Carmel Price (University of Michigan – Dearborn, USA).
Date: May 7, 2025
Time: 3:30 PM (Vilnius time)
Language: English
Format: online seminar via MS Teams platform
Please register for the seminar here.
Registered participants will receive the MS Teams link to the seminar one day before the workshop.
Often, the audience for academic research is the scientific community. Technical manuscripts filled with jargon are published behind firewalls where information is not accessible and not digestible to the general public. But what if more academics worked in partnership with community members to create research that was meaningful and useful to the everyday lives of citizens? Dr. Price has over a decade of experience as a public sociologist. In this talk, she will describe the best practices (and not so good practices) for doing community-based participatory research.
Carmel E. Price
Short bio:
Carmel Price is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan – Dearborn. She became an academic through an unconventional path, first working as an elementary school teacher and then as a social worker. Her diverse training and careers outside of academia have helped her to develop an expertise in community-based participatory research. Thematically, her research falls into two categories: (1) environmental health and justice and (2) education and social mobility. Themes of inequality related to socio-economic class, gender, and race/ethnicity are laced throughout her work. Dr. Price currently serves as the Provost Faculty Fellow for the University of Michigan – Dearborn and she is serving a three-year term as an elected council member of the Public Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. She has over two-dozen academic publications, which often include community partners and undergraduate students as co-authors.
For more information about the seminar, please send an email to est@vdu.lt.
