Aim 3: To characterize how awareness of distinct social change roles impacts engagement effectiveness through measures of relationship, capacity, empowerment, and research outcomes.

We will assess perceptions of engagement experience by each social change role as measured by Engage for Equity’s Community Engagement Measures40 and the Research Engagement Survey Tool (REST) at baseline and longitudinal for one year.41 Using surveys and semi-structured interviews, we will also determine the extent to which awareness of social change roles influences perceptions of engagement effectiveness and trends in these perceptions over time

Aim 2. To establish the feasibility and reproducibility of incorporating social change roles into engagement of Black/African-Americans by application of the ROSES process to an external group.

In collaboration with the Black & African-Descent Collaborative For Prostate Cancer ACtion (BACPAC),39a community-researcher partnership that includes Black prostate cancer survivors engaged in prostate cancer research, we will repeat the process of education and self-identification of social change roles with a focus on identifying similarities and differences by gender

Roles Of Social change in Engagement Science (ROSES)

Roles Of Social change in Engagement Science (The ROSES Study) is a PCORI-funded study based at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The ROSES Study seeks to answer the research question about a novel engagement method: How does the incorporation of social change roles influence perceptions of engagement experience among stakeholders from marginalized communities

Aim 1: To develop and execute the ROSES process – a method of identifying social change roles present among Black/African American community members engaged in cancer research.

Through a series of facilitated workshops, we will identify social change roles present among patient, caregiver, and community-based stakeholders engaged in the SISTER Study. We will develop stakeholder-driven consensus on the most critical roles necessary for successful research partnerships, employing two social change roles frameworks and the facilitation process of the Social Change Ecosystem Map

An exploration of integrated data on the social dynamics of suicide among women

The gender-based nature of suicide-related behaviour is largely accepted. However, studies that report exclusively on female suicides are rare. Here we demonstrate how female suicide has effectively been 'othered' and appears incidental in studies which compare female and male behaviour. We highlight how recent studies of suicide have tended to be dominated by male-only approaches, which increasingly link issues of masculinity with male death by suicide. Drawing on data collected from the general practitioner and coroner's office, we then apply the sociological autopsy approach to a cohort of 78 deaths recorded as suicides in the UK between 2007 and 2009. By focusing on females in isolation from males, we demonstrate that, as in male-only suicide studies, it is similarly possible to draw out issues associated with the feminine identity, which can be linked to death by suicide. We find that bereavement, sexual violence and motherhood could all be linked to the lives and help-seeking of the females who died. In closing, we suggest that a reorientation towards sociological analytic approaches of female suicide may help to produce further reductions in the rate of female death by suicide