Conference: Expanding the Reach of Community Geography; Atlanta, GA; Spring 2019

该奖项将支持一个全国性会议，致力于分享社区地理学的当前工作，并为新的合作项目奠定基础。社区地理学是一个不断发展的子领域，它从地理技术和理论中汲取灵感，产生包容、互利的研究和行动，赋予社区权力，并致力于积极的社会变革。与传统的研究模式不同，社区地理学强调在研究过程的每个阶段积极的伙伴关系，学者与政策制定者和社区团体并肩工作，解决与现实世界相关的问题，如：地方和区域粮食系统、经济发展、获得负担得起的住房以及环境或健康问题。通过在传统课堂之外强调以行动为基础的学习的教学，社区地理的学术课程为学生提供相关和有意义的课堂体验。这个奖项催化了一个更广泛、更多样化的社区地理学家网络，以聚集和推动这些努力。研讨会的报告也将通过在线网络存储库以及学术和非学术出版物共享。会议将展示地理视角如何帮助解决紧迫的社会和环境问题，并展示该学科如何更好地吸引公众参与。本次会议将有大约40人参加，包括来自研究和教学机构的学术人员、研究生和非学术社区伙伴（例如，非营利组织的工作人员、社区团体成员、政府雇员）。会议将持续两天。第一天，参与者将在一系列研讨会和演讲中分享当前的工作。这些将通过视频记录下来，并在一个可公开访问的网站上分享。第二天，与会者将提出合作研究和教学的新想法，确定当前工作中的共同点，并确定未来的研究议程。本次会议的目标是建立和加强与会者之间的网络联系，分享社区地理领域的最佳实践，并产生新的想法和资源，以支持社区从事地理学科的学术研究。这次会议将在乔治亚州亚特兰大市的佐治亚州立大学举行，但与会者将在全国范围内招募，我们预计它将在全国范围内产生影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support a national conference dedicated to sharing current work in Community Geography and laying the foundation for new collaborative projects. Community Geography is a growing subfield that draws from geographical techniques and theories to generate inclusive, mutually beneficial research and action that empowers communities and works toward positive social change. Unlike traditional research models, community geography emphasizes active partnerships at each stage of the research process, with academics working side by side with policymakers and community groups to address issues with real world relevance such as: local and regional food systems, economic development, access to affordable housing, and environmental or health problems. Through instruction that emphasizes action-based learning outside the traditional classroom, academic courses in Community Geography provide relevant and meaningful classroom experiences for students. This award catalyzes a broader, more diverse network of community geographers to gather and further these efforts. Workshop presentations will also be shared through an online web repository and both academic and non-academic publications. The conference will demonstrate how a geographical perspective can help solve pressing social and environmental problems and show how the discipline can better engage members of the general public.This conference will be attended by approximately forty individuals, including academic faculty from research and teaching institutions, graduate students, and non-academic community partners (for example, staff at non-profit organizations, members of community groups, governmental employees). The conference will follow a two-day structure. On the first day, participants will share current work in a series of workshops and presentations. These will be recorded via video and shared on a publicly accessible website. On the second day, attendees will develop new ideas for collaborative research and teaching, identify common threads in current work and identify a research agenda for the future. The goals of this conference are to build and strengthen network connections among attendees, share best practices within community geography, and generate new ideas and resources to support community engaged scholarship within geography as a discipline. This conference will be held at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, but attendees will be recruited nationally and we expect that it will have a national impact.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.