All-In Conference

All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference

Conference Update (October 2021)

We plan to host an in person conference and celebration of community-university partnerships when it is safe to convene, hopefully in 2022 in Santa Cruz, CA. Stay tuned for more details and conference dates.

Since the 2020 conference date was postponed due to COVID-19, the All-In organizers hosted a series of virtual events to encourage conversation and collaboration. Click here to view the 2020-21 virtual dialogue series >>

Program Description

There is an exciting resurgence in critical public scholarship: a push for universities to reach beyond their academic audiences and build stronger community-university partnerships to jointly tackle pressing social issues. Indeed, the complexity and scale of our social ills require not only inter-disciplinary approaches, but recognizing the value of community-based knowledge and its potential contribution to developing solutions to pressing problems. Be a part of this 3-day national conference that focuses on sharing strategies to expand and deepen collaborative approaches for the truly equitable co-production of knowledge. We will explore the dynamic links between campus-community partnerships, hands-on research, and student-community engagement. Together we can build partnerships for change.

Variously known as Research-Practice Partnerships, Community-based Research, Participatory Action Research, or Engaged Scholarship, the field is developing new approaches that share a commitment to creating truly equitable partnerships across all aspects of the research process. A particularly rich vein in the emergent practice of public scholarship is the involvement of undergraduates. We will also discuss methods for building institutional support for collaborative research, how to strategically leverage relations with collaborative partners, and how to build cross-sector networks for practitioners, students, and early career scholars.

The All-In conference will bring together university scholars, community-based practitioners, undergraduate and graduate students, community members and organizations, foundations, organizers, artists, and activists to share stories, strategies, practices, and solutions for building innovative partnerships for critical collaborative research and social change.

Conference Organizers