Community-Based Social Research Collaborative
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Community-Based Social Research Collaborative (CBSRC) is a faculty-led multi-purpose learning and research space that represents the synergy unique to Stockton’s emphasis on integration of teaching, scholarship, and service.
We envision a space that provides resources to produce quality scholarship through faculty-student-community collaborations that highlight faculty areas of expertise as well as socially engaged scholarship as a research area.
Mission
Our collaborative seeks to build a new partnership between universities and the cities in which they reside that brings together academia with the state and community-based organizations. We work with community groups and local and state government to solve the most pressing problems together. We center skills, transparency and open communication in our way of relating to surrounding communities. We value the indigenous strength already existing in communities and want to support local efforts to resolve vast inequities. The collaborative uses a mixed methods approach including qualitative and quantitative perspectives as well as participatory research methods. We work with community-based organizations, the state, and private partners to identify and address community needs and gaps while producing quality scholarship.
Goals
Support Faculty Engagement Opportunities and Scholarship Initiatives
Support faculty engagement opportunities and scholarship initiatives in the field through academic and community partnerships for implementing socially equitable outcomes throughout the region and statewide.
Strengthen Partnerships
Provide Community-based and Engagement Opportunities
Provide Community-based and engagement opportunities for faculty, partners, community members and students specifically aimed at decreasing county-wide inequalities. Results aim to empower residents and stakeholders with research tools to alleviate local inequalities.
Current Projects
Drs. Erbaugh, Jackson, Alysia Mastrangelo and Sreelekha Prakash are working with the New Jersey Birth Equity Funders Alliance to evaluate postpartum support to families and communities statewide. The Stockton team works in collaboration with the NJ Office of the First Lady’s Nurture NJ initiative, NJ Economic Development Authority, public and private funders, and community-based organizations.
Drs. Betsy Erbaugh and Jenny Dunkle (Social Work) are conducting ongoing research with NJ educators in partnership with Make it Better for Youth, Garden State Equality, and GLSEN to promote equitable access to learning statewide.
Dr. Christina Jackson’s ongoing work contributes to equity-based solutions that support stable socio-economic environments for low-income residents of color. This work preserves and archives traditions while also documenting how urban growth and stimulation affect residents’ daily lives.
Dr. Jess Bonnan-White’s (Criminal Justice) research with community partners investigates reciprocal relations of trust between communities and social institutions in context of historical conflict, to examine shifting identities, roles and health outcomes in community policing, disaster response, community life and leadership.
Faculty




Dr. Sreelekha Prakash


Dr. Jess Bonnan-White

Erin O’Hanlon
Get Involved

Faculty
If interested, faculty can reach out to Dr. Christina Jackson (Christina.Jackson@stockton.edu) and Dr. Betsy Erbaugh (Elizabeth.Erbaugh@stockton.edu)
Community Partners
A list of community and state partners we have worked with:
- CROPS
- NJ Food Democracy Collaborative
- Stockton Center for Community Engagement and Service- Learning
- New Jersey Office of the First Lady
- New Jersey Economic Development Authority
- The John S. Watson Center for Public Policy & Kean University
- New York Avenue Apartments
- New Jersey Organizing Project
If interested, partners can reach out to Dr Christina Jackson (Christina.Jackson@stockton.edu) and Dr. Betsy Erbaugh (Elizabeth.Erbaugh@stockton.edu)
News
More Information: NJ Spotlight News
Contact Us
Community-Based Social Research Collaborative
Location: Stockton University - Rothenberg Building
Address: 3430 Atlantic Ave, Atlantic City, NJ 08401
If you have any questions, please email:
Christina Jackson: Christina.Jackson@stockton.edu
Elizabeth Erbaugh: Elizabeth.Erbaugh@stockton.edu