A win-win collaboration: A conceptual framework that integrates undergraduate research training and faculty research in service-learning

Implementing undergraduate research skills training in the context of service-learning can facilitate scholarship for faculty members, as well as enhance student developmental outcomes and augment innovation/ entrepreneurship training in liberal arts education. This study proposes a conceptual framework to integrate faculty research initiatives with undergraduate research skills training via the service-learning project, based on previous literature (Reitmaier Koehler, Reveling Smith, Davis and Mangan-Danckwart, 2015). As a result, different stakeholders, including students, faculty members, and community partner organizations, gain benefits from the service-learning project. The study also reports the findings revealed from the first round of model testing with action research approach and a service-learning course of Lingnan University.