Global Research Agenda for Service-Learning and Community Engagement
Lend your voice. We invite you to contribute to the development of IARSLCE's Global Research Agenda for Service-Learning and Community Engagement — an agenda to guide the service-learning and community engagement fields' future research activities. Focused on advancing the study and practice of service-learning and community engagement across the educational spectrum (primary, secondary, higher, and adult education), the agenda is designed to ensure that the future research in the field reflects the diverse and evolving interests and perspectives of scholars, practitioners, collaborators, and supporters of service-learning and community engagement from across the globe.
Shape the field. In preparation for the 25th anniversary of the annual international research conference on service-learning and community engagement, to be held in late 2025, IARSLCE is producing a Global Research Agenda that identifies the questions and issues to be addressed in future research studies of service-learning and community engagement (SLCE).
Join a global community. Launched in 2019, this effort has already engaged more than 300 SLCE scholars, researchers, and practitioners from over two dozen countries in a series of research agenda-setting meetings during which participants have proposed the key questions and issues to guide the next 25 years of SLCE research. The final set of these research agenda-setting meetings will be held throughout 2023. Join us for these meetings.
Ways to Get Involved
1. Participate in a scheduled research agenda-setting meeting.
The final set of research agenda-setting meetings will be held throughout 2023 in various parts of the globe, either in-person or virtually. Individuals interested in participating in one of the meetings will be automatically notified of upcoming research agenda-setting meetings they can join.
2. Schedule and host your own research agenda-setting meeting.
Any member of the SLCE community can volunteer to host a research agenda-setting meeting. Meetings can be tied to existing events or conferences, or held separately. All meetings follow a similar protocol (which will be provided to host) and typically last between 2-3 hours. Meeting hosts will receive guidance on hosting a meeting and how to handle the data collected. Typically there is no cost involved in hosting the meetings. Meetings can be held in-person or virtually at any time of the year.
3. Participate in the analysis of the data and information collected for the various global research agenda-setting meetings.
Throughout 2024, a series of meetings will be held to engage diverse members of the SLCE from throughout the globe in reviewing, organizing, and analyzing the data and information collected from the various research agenda-setting meetings. These meetings will shape the final focus, content, and organization of the global research agenda.
4. Contribute to a publication focused on the global research agenda.
Individuals and groups involved in the research agenda development activities will be invited to share their experiences and perspectives on the value, importance, and future of SLCE research and the global research agenda. The publications will include diverse voices from across the globe and across the educational spectrum.
5. Participate in the planning of the 25th Anniversary International Research Conference, to be held in late 2025 (location to be determined).
A conference planning team will be formed to shape the focus and organization of the anniversary conference. Participants from across the globe and from across the educational spectrum are welcome to join the conference planning team for this important milestone anniversary conference. The Global Research Agenda will be featured at this conference.)