Shaw Receives Distinguished Community-Engaged Research Award
The award recognizes a faculty member for a record of community-engaged research, scholarship, and creative activities.
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The Office of Research and Engagement (ORE) and Office of Faculty Development (OFD) have announced that Susan Shaw, Professor of Community Health Education and the Director of the Center for Community Health Equity Research (CCHER), has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Distinguished Community Engagement Award for Research.
The award recognizes a faculty member or librarian for a record of community-engaged research, scholarship, and creative activities, in all disciplines and fields, which contributes to their community partner organizations, UMass Amherst, the academy, and communities at large.
Through CCHER, Shaw has not only engaged in community-engaged research herself, she has also built capacity across the university for equitable community-engaged research done by other faculty. CCHER has developed a set of best practices to guide community-engaged research at UMass Amherst, and her work has looked to the future of public health, building future generations of public health scholars who are engaging in community-engaged research. Shaw has a current grant focused on vulnerable populations in the region, and she has a longstanding research relationship of two decades with Caring Health Center in Springfield.
The Distinguished Community Engagement Awards for Research, Teaching, and Service have been made annually for more than two decades. The annual awards recognize individuals within the campus community – as well as community partner organizations – for their outstanding contributions to community-engaged research, teaching and service with impacts at the local, regional, national or international level.
The award is supported by ORE, OFD and the Office of the Provost. More information on the 2025 award recipients can be found here.