Peer Reviewed Research

Perspectives of community members on community-based participatory research: A systematic literature review

Journal of Urban Affairs

2024

Jill K. Clark, along with her colleagues, investigates community members’ perceptions of their engagement with university researchers’ work in their neighborhoods, finding that perceptions are shaped not just by individual experiences but also by broader, enduring narratives that differ by neighborhood and racialized group, highlighting the importance of understanding historical relationships and setting clear expectations in community-engaged research.

The potential of urban food governance to transform lives, cities, and the planet

Journal of Urban Food Systems Governance

2024

Jill K. Clark, along with her colleagues, proposes a critical framework for urban food governance, emphasizing five interconnected principles, time, place, relationships, diversity and power, to guide just and sustainable outcomes in urban food systems.

Neighbors’ Perceptions of University Engaged “Research”

Journal of Planning Education and Research

2024

Jill K. Clark and colleagues investigate community members’ perceptions of their engagement with university researchers’ work in their neighborhoods, finding that perceptions are shaped not just by individual experiences but also by broader, enduring narratives that differ by neighborhood and racialized group, highlighting the importance of understanding historical relationships and setting clear expectations in community-engaged research.

Journal of Addiction Medicine

2025

Tasha Perdue, along with her colleagues, uses the Stigma and Health Discrimination Framework to examine how enacted, anticipated, internalized and structural stigma shape the experiences of people who use drugs in Dayton, Ohio following an overdose and influence the effectiveness of postoverdose interventions.

Type 2 Diabetes and Financial Outcomes

JAMA

2025

PhD graduate Patthew Pesavento and professors Cäzilia Loibl and Stephanie Moulton published an economic evaluation study of 166,285 adult patients finding a higher probability of adverse financial outcomes among patients with type 2 diabetes.

Policing and Society

2025

Russell Hassan, Clifford Stott and colleagues deliver the first systematic, theory-informed empirical analysis of the Columbus Division of Police post-2020 POPS framework using participatory action research across 60+ events to show how specific approaches contain conflict and promote self-regulation within protest crowds, also revealing tensions in organizational change.

High Turnover with Low Accountability: Local School Board Elections in 16 States

EdWorkingPapers

2025

Vladimir Kogan and Stéphane Lavertu analyze U.S. school board election data and find that nearly half of races go uncontested and that incumbents are reelected more than 80 percent of the time when they run.

Public Money & Management

2025

Jos C. N. Raadschelders and authors stress the importance of a career civil service recruited on the basis of merit, while at the same time recognizing the need for genuine civil service reform. The article also highlights the importance of career civil servants to citizens.

Roundtable: Perspectives on The Public

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

2025

Travis Whetsell and Jos Raadschelders explore the dimensions of the public as a central idea in the contemporary field of public management and governance.

Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism

2025

In this chapter published in the Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism, Ange-Marie Hancock traces the impact of three well-established approaches to intersectionality that focus attention on power via a content analysis of 132 articles published in any of nine political science journals.