{"id":2818,"date":"2021-02-23T17:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/anthropology\/?page_id=2818"},"modified":"2025-01-22T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:34:00","slug":"social-science-community-engagement-lab-current-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-anthropology\/social-science-community-engagement-lab-current-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Science Community Engagement Story Lab Current Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Contact Dr. Lisa Hardy<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n
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Social Science Community Engagement Story Lab<\/h1>\n

The Social Science Community Engagement Story Lab<\/h2>\n

Founding Director: Dr. Lisa J. Hardy<\/h3>\n

Affiliated Faculty: Dr. Leah Mundell, Dr. Corina Kellner, Dr. Eric Otenyo<\/h4>\n

Location: Bilby Research Center, Room 131 and 131a<\/h4>\n

The Story Lab serves as a central location for learning and best practices for community-engaged research and storytelling in northern Arizona. Faculty, students, and community partners develop and implement interdisciplinary projects in community engagement, social justice, youth participation, and creative arts research. With a focus on storytelling related to medical anthropology and community health, partners develop projects and conduct training sessions on ethics, primary data collection, mixed-methods analysis, and dissemination of findings through professional presentations and publications.<\/p>\n

The lab also provides research, training, and opportunities for storytelling for social change. Dr. Hardy provides talks and workshops based on her\u00a0book<\/a>, editorial activities with the journal\u00a0Practicing Anthropology<\/a>, and related active research projects that include faculty, undergraduate, and graduate student collaboration. Dr. Mundell works with student research groups to integrate community organizing and social science research approaches in collaborating with local schools and organizations.<\/p>\n

The lab offers opportunities in developing and pitching op-eds, collaborative writing, journal editing, and the development of policy recommendations for students and partners.<\/p>\n

In collaboration with student interns Dr. Hardy\u2019s story lab will host a series of \u201cpoetry as method\u201d workshops this spring for people aged 14-25 to create artistic forms based on research transcripts.\u00a0<\/i><\/h4>\n

We welcome new community partners and undergraduate and graduate students as interns and researchers. Students are also welcome to participate in the lab for course credit in active projects including through\u00a0Community and University Public Inquiry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lab intern\u00a0Taylor Schweikert\u00a0won a Student-led Projects in the Arts, Creative Activity, and Scholarship Program (SPArCS) award for 2024-2025 for her project: Collaborative Storytelling and Listening: The Aftermath of Grooming and Sexual Misconduct.\u00a0Congratulations<\/span>\u00a0Taylor!<\/p>\n

Examples of recent research include:<\/h3>\n