Community-Based Research Fellowship

The program is designed to support and encourage community-based research through enhanced access to academic, community, and peer expertise. In essence, these CBR Fellows will operate within three matrices of meaningful support, benefiting from and enriching each:

1. the vibrant and healthy network of campus-community partnerships, established over the past decades and nurtured through sustained commitment to shared interests;
2. the close mentorship with a faculty member, as part of the Bates practice of undergraduate research; and
3. the growing student community of practice engaged in community work through the HCCP, including CBR Peers (past Fellows who continue to serve in the program).

These matrices are inherently overlapping and mutually dependent, and our CBR Fellows will bring new sets of skills and perspectives to each. Most importantly, these Fellows will serve to enhance the substantive research collaborations between Bates and our community partners while cultivating, themselves, a greater understanding of academic work for the public good.

From Bates College.