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Research Overview
Marlene Berg’s research interest include: women and youth, most specifically substance abuse prevention, intimate partner violence, identity, cognitive and social development; research methods and participatory approaches to democratizing science. She has served as Principal Investigator and/or Project Director or on several CSAP-funded research and intervention studies including Youth Action Research for Prevention (YARP), a multi-level intervention designed to increase efficacy and empowerment and reduce substance and sex risk among urban youth; Urban Woman Against Substance Abuse (UWASA), a project for mothers and their preadolescent daughters; and Encontrando el Poder Dentro de Tí, a collaborative family strengthening project. She worked as a member of the research/training team on NIAAA funded study on Alcohol, Sex Risk and HIV in Mumbai, India (ASHRA). One of the co-founders of the Institute for Community Research, Berg has trained youth, youth workers, graduate students, teachers and community residents in participatory action research for over 20 years.
Education
Attended UConn 1998-2001 in Anthropology (did not finish)
New York University, 1986, Urban Planning
Drew University, Political Science, 1966
Featured Publications
2009 Berg, Coman, & Schensul. Youth Action Research for Prevention: “A Multi-level intervention designed to increase efficacy and empowerment among urban youth.” America Journal of Community Psychology. 43(3) 345-360.
2009 Phillips, Berg, Rodriguez, & Morgan. (in final review for publication). A Case Study of Participatory Action Research in a Public New England Middle School: Empowerment, Constraints and Challenges. America Journal of Community Psychology. Special Issue on action research with middle school youth.
2008 Schensul, Berg, & Williamson. Challenging Hegemonies: Advancing Collaboration in Community-Based Participatory Action Research. Collaborative Anthropologies. Vol 1.
2008 Entry on Experiential Knowledge. The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods.
2004 with Morgan, Pacheco, Rodriguez, Vazquez, and Schensul. “Youth Participatory Action Research on Hustling and Its Consequences: A Report from the Field.” Children, Youth and Environments 14(2): 201-228. LINK
2004 Schensul, J. & Berg, M. “Youth Participatory Action Research: A Transformative Approach to Service-Learning”. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. Summer. Vol. 10, No. 3.
2004 Berg, M & Schensul, J (editors). “Approaches to Conducting Action Research with Youth”. Journal of Practicing Anthropology. Spring, Vol 26, No. 2,
2002 Berg, Owens, & Schensul. “Participatory action research, service learning and community youth development”, Journal of Community Youth Development Volume 3, No. 2. Fall 2002.
2001 with Schensul, J. and Brase, M. Chapter 6: "Theories Guiding Outcomes for Action Research for Service-Learning". Advances in Service-Learning Research, Volume 1: The Essence of the Pedagogy. Furco, A. & Billig, S.H. (eds). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing
1999 with Nastasi B.K. “Using ethnography to strengthen and evaluate intervention programs”. In M.D. LeCompte & J.U. Schensul (Eds.) The Ethnographic Tool Kit. Book 7: Using Ethnographic Data: Interventions, Public Programming, and Public Policy. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
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