@article{5c9ea273fc2b40609a4e0fea92198c7b,
title = "University of illinois at chicago's interdisciplinary center for research on violence: Changing systems to prevent violence in chicago and beyond",
abstract = "This article describes an interdisciplinary center at the University of Illinois at Chicago focused on collaborative research on violence. Our center is unique in its emphasis on developing infrastructure and distinctive processes for overcoming obstacles to interdisciplinary research; the involvement of outside policy makers, advocates, and service providers in jointly discussing and developing research proposals; the breadth of commitments from leading violence researchers and administrators across five colleges; and the innovativeness of proposed research projects that support interdisciplinary activity and show promise for funding. The center has developed an infrastructure to address violence-related issues in both research and teaching. This article discusses the challenges of implementation and boundary spanning in a university context and makes recommendations for sustainability.",
keywords = "collaborative research, interdisciplinary, research center, violence",
author = "Paul Schewe and Bell, {Carl C.} and Larry Bennett and Goldstein, {Paul J.} and Rebecca Gordon and Mark Mattaini and Patricia O'Brien and Stephanie Riger and Risser, {Heather J.} and Rosenbaum, {Dennis P.} and Schuck, {Amie M.} and Barbara Simmons and Ullman, {Sarah E.}",
note = "Funding Information: The center was initially supported by a US$200,000 seed grant from UIC. The initial budget proposed using this money to fund small portions of the codirectors{\textquoteright} salaries, to fund graduate research assistants to support center-related activities, and to buy food for monthly noon meetings with center faculty, students, and community partners. In practice, the codirectors never drew salaries, so the seed money was able to support more graduate assistants for longer periods of time than originally budgeted. Since the initial funds were drawn down, the center has been largely supported by in-kind efforts by its members, indirect costs from funded grant applications, funds from consulting work by center members, and by awards received from UIC{\textquoteright}s LAS Undergraduate Research Initiative program. ",
year = "2011",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1177/1077801211419325",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "17",
pages = "1176--1193",
journal = "Violence Against Women",
issn = "1077-8012",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "9",
}
