American Political Science Association Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER)
Scholars in many disciplines are grappling with how to produce rigorous scholarship that addresses significant social challenges in collaboration with communities, organizations, and agencies. They strive to learn from those working outside of academia, to benefit from the insights of all kinds of groups and institutions, and to give back to communities rather than extract value from them. Although political scientists offer models of excellence in civically engaged research, relevant methods and strategies are not yet widely taught in the discipline’s graduate programs or sufficiently valued in the profession as a whole.
In an effort to address this need, the APSA Presidential Task Force on New Partnerships launched the now-annual APSA Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) in 2019.
ICER was hosted by Tisch College and held at Tufts annually from 2019-2024, with a hiatus in 2020 for COVID. In 2025, it will be held at UCLA in Los Angeles. The 2025 organizers will be: Peter Levine (Tisch College), Samantha Majic (John Jay College & The CUNY Graduate Center), and Adriano Udani (University of Minnesota).
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