FAQ

The Center for Community-Engaged Research and Equity (CEREQ) promotes and supports community-engaged research and scholarship development. CEREQ participants can connect with like-minded researchers, find collaborative partners with complementary skills and experience, and use community-engaged networks to support translational research and publishing opportunities.

CEREQ offers the following support:

• Connecting researchers to infrastructure that promotes community engagement activities
• Matching community-engaged research capacity with collaborative partners, including local, regional, and national participants in health equity initiatives
• Offering assistance for developing community-engaged research grant proposals and increased publication opportunities
• Providing training opportunities for community-engaged research activities, including practical research experiences and seminars on relevant topics

Faculty and staff of CEREQ member institutions engaged in work that can be applied to community-engaged research activity and scholarship are encouraged to use CEREQ.

 Contact a member of CEREQ staff at 757.446.7472, cereq@evms.edu or fill out the request support form to discuss project opportunities and needs.

CEREQ can facilitate conversations with other researchers who are doing community-engaged work, help you identify a collaborative partner whose skills complement yours, and help make your research more community-engagement focused.

CEREQ offers support to eligible faculty and staff free of charge.

Acknowledgement of Support

Contributions of significant time and effort by CEREQ staff should be acknowledged. The amount of facilitation needed should be agreed on as early as possible in the request process.

For published materials, acknowledgement of contributions or authorship should be determined by the amount and extent of the work performed. Basic writing assistance, including editing, should be acknowledged but is not considered authorship

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) applies the following criteria for recognizing authorship:

1. Substantial contribution to the conception/design of the work or the acquisition/analysis, or interpretation of data AND
2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content AND
3. Final approval of the version to be published AND
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.