RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Achieving engagement in injury and violence prevention research JF Injury Prevention JO Inj Prev FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd SP 472 OP 475 DO 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043257 VO 25 IS 5 A1 Woody Collins, Jennifer YR 2019 UL http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/5/472.abstract AB This paper examines the idea of engaged research and the ways it is conceived and applied in injury and violence prevention. To achieve meaningful engagement, I argue that efforts should be directed to relationships with the people who will be impacted by injury prevention interventions rather than to professional practitioners. Additionally, I call for researchers to avoid predefining injury problems prior to engaging with the people it is intended to affect. Prefiguring problems circumscribes the possibilities for engagement with individuals who do not value risk as a determining factor in problem definition and cuts off and devalues other ways of knowing.