THE FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS IN CANADA Evidence-Based Investment in Knowledge, Engaged Scholarship, Innovation and Action for Canada’s Future Office of Community-Based Research University of Victoria Community Based Research Canada October 2009 Acknowledgement and Thanks The Strategic Programs and Joint Initiatives Branch of the Social Sciences and Huma [...] The Office of Community Based Research at the University of Victoria The Office of Community Based Research is a university-wide structure to facilitate research partnerships between the university and the community on issues of com- munity priority. [...] Subsequent discussions on behalf of CBRC by the Office of Community Based Research (OCBR) at the University of Victoria with representatives of the Strategic Programs and Joint Initiatives Division of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) resulted in a contract to carry out a first step in this agenda: this report on the development of community university research partnership [...] From a university perspective, community based research refers to a wide variety of practices and is supported by several academic traditions: Academic or scientific knowledge put at the service of community needs; Joint university and community partnerships in the identification of research problems and development of methods and applications; Research that is generated in community settings with [...] The purpose of the CURA program is to support the creation of community university alliances which, through a process of ongoing collaboration and mutual learning, will foster innovative research, training and the creation of new knowledge in areas of importance for the social, cultural and economic development of Canadian communities.