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Its approach was designing engagement programmes of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) with communities\u2019 partnerships, supported by constructed conversations, workshops and fieldwork, coproducing knowledge within community structures.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 The research offers evidence that supporting community empowerment and engagement with community-based research needs a deep understanding of participatory social processes. It makes visible that researchers should have more opportunities to focus their research on communities rather than on collecting data to respond to funders.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 Though community self-organisation happens one way or the other effective self-organisation processes cannot be taken for granted and need further studies and elaboration. 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