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There is a growing recognition among researchers, university administrators, funding agencies, and the broader public that the knowledge produced in academia often remains divorced from impacts and use in real‐world contexts. Across a wide range of disciplines, scholars have commonly followed one of two models to take research beyond peer‐reviewed publications and contribute to the common good: the “Expert” model of public engagement and the “Community‐Engaged” model. We present a relational model of public engagement that builds on strengths of these two existing pathways, but constitutes a distinctive third one. The relational model urges relationship building and mutual learning, as well as partnership during dissemination, while maintaining independence of thought, decision‐making, and institutional affiliation during the processes of research design, data collection, and analysis …