SPARC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LAB
SPARC ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LABThe SPARC Environmental Justice Lab at the University of Utah is a collaborative of engaged faculty, students, community members, and scholars who are committed to enacting principles of community-based participatory research to understand issues of social and environmental health and co-create strategies to achieve justice.
The SPARC Environmental Justice (EJ) Lab is based on the follow commitments:
Student Pathways
Action Research and knowledge generation
Critical Community Engagement
Environmental Justice Projects
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Community Research Resources
Community-based research is at the heart of the SPARC Lab. We often work in a paradigm that sees research as a product of both community expertise and interdisciplinary academic training. There are varying levels of engagement in this type of work which recognizes that many communities have historically been disempowered by extractive research processes. Here, we envision community-members as co-researchers and direct beneficiaries of the products and processes of the engaged research. A community may be defined by geography, demography, ethnicity, profession, faith or shared set of experiences, and people are members of many, often nested, communities.