How to Use the Institutional Review Board (IRB) as an Engaged Scholar

Join Ashley Williams and Stephanie Keister from UVA’s Institutional Review Board for the Social and Behavioral Sciences (IRB-SBS) for an introduction and Q&A about working with the IRB-SBS as an engaged scholar. They will address questions like: 

• When is IRB required? Why is it necessary? 
• Introduction to the “Evaluate my Project” tool 
• Difference between classroom activities and research activities 
• What kind of data collection is allowed? 
• Consent- for student participants and community members 
• Permissions to use participant work 
• How community members can join the study team (and take CITI training)

This session will be hybrid. Register to join online.

This event is part of the Learning Series on Community-Engaged Scholarship. Other events include:

• Community-Engaged Scholarship in Promotion, Tenure, and Review at the University of Minnesota with David Weerts - Wednesday, October 1, 12:00-1:00 PM; Zoom
• Writing and Community Engagement with Indigenous History with Sarah Richardson - Wednesday, November 5, 12:00-1:00 PM; hybrid

About the Community-Engaged Scholarship Learning Series

This Fall 2025 learning community is a place where instructors can explore a range of topics, challenges, and opportunities that arise within the world of community-engaged scholarship.

Community-engaged scholarship is teaching, research, or creative activity that is carried out in collaboration with community partners to address shared concerns and generate mutually beneficial outcomes. Members of the university community and community partners contribute their expertise, learn from each other, share decision-making, and deepen the learning of students involved.

In practice this may look like:

• A service-learning course that combines classroom and experiential learning through student volunteering and reflection  
• A community-engaged course in which significant portions of the syllabus are co-planned, or even co-taught, with community partners  
• Academic and community-based researchers co-design a study to address the concerns of the of community clinic patients

Who should attend?

These sessions are open to any UVA colleagues interested in community-based teaching, engaged scholarship, and university-community partnerships, including full-time and part-time faculty (tenured/tenure-track, AGFM), graduate students, postdocs, and staff. No prior experience is required. You can register for sessions individually.

Sponsors

This series is organized with support from the Center for Teaching Excellence and Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach.