Reply To: Lesson 1: discussion question (post here for course credit)

I would say that understanding of GPP among members of the research team varies quite a bit. some have rather good understanding and are committed to follow its principles. Others acknowledge the importance of GPP and community engagement, but they tend to have a position were community engagement is more of researchers “educating” the community and getting the community groups to “fall in line”.  This type of attitude doesn’t necessarily translate into outright disrespectful behavior, in fact mostly they are still very nice in engagement. Nevertheless, researchers with this attitude tend want to design engagement so that they can better control the implementation of the research, rather than let different voices blossom and be discussed.