Implementation research (IR) focuses on understanding how and why interventions produce their effects in a given context.The authors of this 2017 study reviewed 59 resources and completed two rounds of rating to identify the ‘10 best’ resources to help implementation researchers think strategically and practically about how best to engage community stakeholders to improve the quality, meaningfulness, and application of their results in order to improve health and health systems outcomes.

Campus Compact, based in the United States, is a coalition of college and university presidents who are committed to fulfilling the civic purpose of higher education. The toolkit includes articles, rationale, and other resources relating to engaged scholarship, promotion and tenure, and more.

The Canadian Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Community of Practice (KTECOP) is a network of KTE practitioners and researchers who share KTE practices and experience, build peer relationships for information exchange and support, build KTE capacity, advance knowledge of KTE effectiveness, and share KTE events, job opportunities and other related KTE activities.

Collaborative Anthropologies, a peer-reviewed journal, encourages submissions that engage the growing and ever-widening discussion of collaborative research and practice in anthropology and in closely related fields.

A nonprofit membership organization that promotes health equity and social justice through partnerships between communities and academic institutions. A good source of freely shared information.

Community Development is the peer-reviewed journal of the Community Development Society. Community Development is devoted to improving knowledge and practice in the field of purposive community change. The mission of the journal is to advance critical theory, research, and practice in all domains of community development, including sociocultural, political, environmental, and economic.

Founded in 2008, Community-Based Research Canada’s (CBRC) vision is to be a national champion and facilitator for community-based research (CBR) and campus-community engagement in Canada that is of socio-cultural, economic and environmental benefit to Canadians and Indigenous peoples in Canada.

Community-Campus Engage Canada (CCEC) is an emerging national network focused on shifting institutional cultures to break down barriers, and foster collaboration at post-secondary institutions, community-based organizations, funding agencies (including governmental bodies and private foundations) and other networks.

A guide developed by the Vancouver Public Library for librarians who are engaged with community that lays out the basics of what is community engagement, what is community-led work and how to make community connections. Posted on the Community-Led Library Service Network.

The Engagement Scholarship Consortium is a US-based non-profit organization that works to build strong university-community partnerships anchored in the rigor of scholarship and designed to help build community capacity.

A refereed journal concerned with the practice and processes of university-community engagement. It provides a forum for academics, practitioners and community representatives to explore issues and reflect on practices relating to the full range of engaged activity.

List of articles curated by Campus Compact

Muhammad, M., Wallerstein, N., Sussman, A., Avila, M., Belone, L., & Duran, B. (2014). Reflections on Researcher Identity and Power: The Impact of Positionality on Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Processes and Outcomes. Critical Sociology, 41(7-8), 1045-1063.

An international non-profit organization devoted to promoting research and discussion about service-learning and community engagement.

The International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IJRSLCE) is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the publication of high quality research focused on service-learning, campus-community engagement, and the promotion of active and effective citizenship through education.

An on-line, refereed journal concerned with exploring community engagement and community-based learning perspective, research, and practice. Publishes accounts of a range of research focusing on practical and theoretical insights and understanding, in higher education and across the disciplines and professions. There is a focus on case studies emphasizing community engagement and engaged learning practices, methodology, and pedagogy.

The Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (JCES) is a peer-reviewed international journal through which faculty, staff, students, and community partners disseminate scholarly works. JCES integrates teaching, research, and community engagement in all disciplines, addressing critical problems identified through a community-participatory process.

The Journal of Community Practice is an interdisciplinary journal grounded in social work. It is designed to provide a forum for community practice, including community organizing, planning, social administration, organizational development, community development, and social change.

The mission of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement (JHEOE) is to serve as the premier peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal to advance theory and practice related to all forms of outreach and engagement between higher education institutions and communities.

L., Ochocka, J., de Grosbois, S., & Hall, B., (2015). Kamucwkalha: Canadian approaches to community-university research partnerships, in Hall, B., Tandon, R, & Tremblay, C. (Eds) Strengthening Community University Research Partnerships: Global Perspectives (pp.95-112).

The international Living Knowledge Network (LK) is set up for people interested in building partnerships for public access to research. Members use the network platform and its tools for documentation and to exchange information, ideas, experiences and expertise on community-based research and science and society relations in general.

Metropolitan Universities journal (MUJ) is CUMU’s quarterly online journal for scholarship on cutting-edge topics impacting urban and metropolitan colleges and universities. It is a peer-reviewed, open access publication. Its readership is primarily senior leaders and administrators who shape higher education in order to address issues facing modern universities and the communities they serve.

The NCCPE is a UK-based organization hosted by the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England that works to support universities to increase the quality and impact of their public engagement activity. They offer a range of resources, tools and training opportunities for university and community partners.

This open-access, peer-reviewed journal is sponsored by the University College of London Institute of Education and the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (United Kingdom). The journal is for anyone, working inside or outside universities, who is committed to seeing research make a difference in society.

ResearchImpact-RéseauImpactRecherche (RIR) is a pan-Canadian network of universities committed to maximizing the impact of academic research for the social, economic, environmental and health benefits of Canadians. RIR members achieve this mandate by investing in knowledge mobilization, supporting collaboration for research and learning and connecting research beyond the bounds of academia.

Research Involvement and Engagement is an interdisciplinary, health and social care journal focussing on patient and wider involvement and engagement in research, at all stages. The journal is co-produced by all key stakeholders, including patients, academics, policy makers and service users.

Canadian universities and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health are collaborating to transform university policies and practices in order to recognize and reward community engaged scholarship. Numerous resources and events shared on this site.

The Talloires Network is an international association of more than 315 institutions in 72 countries committed to strengthening the civic roles and social responsibilities of higher education. We work together to implement the recommendations of the Talloires Declaration and build a global movement of engaged universities moving beyond the ivory tower.

UNCG has a useful list of journals, websites and listervs that feature articles on service-learning and/or community engagement.