Responsible Conduct of Community-Engaged Engineering Research: A Call for Community Rights

The Engineering Ethics & Community Rights Collaborative is a transdisciplinary initiative of frontline community members, engineers, scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars, and NGOs to help address an ethics gap in community-engaged engineering research (CEER): the absence of laws, ethics codes, and institutional mechanisms that a) recognize and protect community rights in CEER, and b) promote projects that abide by principles of distributional, recognitional, and participatory justice.

The Collaborative’s goals are to bring national attention to community vulnerabilities inherent in CEER and to design a conceptual framework for the institutionalization of rights- and justice-centered approaches to this type of research.

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