Learning From an Irish Multidisciplinary Collaborative Project Where Students are the Community

Authors

Catherine Bates, Technological University DublinFollow
Jim McAllister, Garda Road Safety Unit

Document Type

Article

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

5.3 EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES

Publication Details

International Journal of Community Based Research, no. 10, May, 2012

http://www.livingknowledge.org/livingknowledge/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/LK10-Journal-May12.pdf

Abstract

College Awareness of Road Safety is a collaborative course-based multidisciplinary CBR project between students and staff at Technological University City and the Garda [police] Road Safety Unit, begun in 2007/8. Both partners describe this collaborative research model, whose aim is to improve awareness of road safety among the target group of 17-24 year olds - i.e. students themselves - by engaging them in course-based research. This paper presents both perspectives on the benefits of mentoring in this model, where academic staff from various disciplines and the Road Safety Unit mentor students to creatively develop individual approaches to road safety-related research.

Recommended Citation

Bates, C., McAllister, J.: Learning From an Irish Multidisciplinary Collaborative Project Where Students are in the Community. International Journal of Community Based Research, no. 10, May, 2012, p.9-11.