Research Methods for Community Change A Project-Based Approach

Randy Stoecker is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Toledo, and is the moderator/editor of COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development (http://comm-org.utoledo.edu).nbsp; His areas of expertise include community organizing and development, participatory research/evaluation, and community information technology.nbsp; He has been involved in a wide variety of community-based participatory research projects and participatory evaluations with community development corporations, community organizing groups, and community information technology programs across North America and Australia.nbsp; He has also been helping build and evaluate…  More university-community collaborations through the Bonner Foundation's Learn and Serve America Community Research Project.nbsp; Randy speaks and writes extensively on community organizing and development, community-based participatory research, and community information technology.nbsp; He is author of Defending Community (Temple University Press, 1994) and Community-Based Research and Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2003). You can find his complete vita at http://sasweb.utoledo.edu/vita/stoeckvita.htm.nbsp; He resides in Toledo, Ohio with his wife, daughter, and 50 pound standard poodle, but prefers Australia, where all the road signs say keep left.  Less