Participatory Research: Growing the agency of communities and co-creating new knowledge 

Participatory research can be a vehicle to collaborate and coordinate with stakeholders in generating empowering information for both scholars and broader communities. Community expertise could be of great value to researchers, and new knowledge can help communities overcome a lack of resources for advocacy, skills for implementation, or access to decision-making settings. Large and small, marginalized and central, communities can benefit from the academic engine -- and the academy can benefit from the perspectives of a partner community.