An occupational justice perspective on playing football and living with mental distress

Pettican, Anna; Speed, Ewen; Kilbride, Cherry; Bryant, Wendy; Beresford, Peter

doi:10.1080/14427591.2020.1816208

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“…The project commenced by establishing a research steering group, who designed, gathered and analysed data from three World Café events and a series of go-along interviews from 2010-2015 (see Figure 2). The project's findings have been reported elsewhere (Pettican, Speed et al 2021. Three reflective themes on co-production from the PMA project are presented here: Making spaces, Actions and words, Decisions about data.…”

Section: The Positive Mental Attitude (Pma) Research Projectmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Across both sport and physical activity and occupational therapy PAR research, creative methods have been used to subvert conventional approaches to knowledge production. For example, podcasting (Smith, Danford et al 2021a), photovoice (Birken and Bryant 2019;Hayhurst and Centeno 2019;McSweeney et al 2022), WhatsApp© conversations (Dania and Griffin 2021), World Cafés (Pettican, Speed et al 2021) and goalong interviews (Pettican et al 2022). Within the occupational therapy literature, the principles and practices of PAR have also been related to professional skills, philosophies and knowledge translation (Wimpenny 2013;Kramer-Roy 2015;Bennett et al 2016).…”

Section: Co-production and Parmentioning

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Doing together: reflections on facilitating the co-production of participatory action research with marginalised populations

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Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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Recognising the limited literature detailing the practical application of coproduction principles and practices within sport, exercise and health research, critical reflections on co-production principles and practice are shared here, drawing on two participatory action research (PAR) projects in the United Kingdom (UK). Co-production and PAR are distinguished, and their commonalities discussed. Both projects were facilitated by occupational therapists and concerned with health inequities and social justice. The Voices for Inclusive Activity project brought disabled people together online to explore more accessible and inclusive approaches to evaluate disability sport and physical activity. The Positive Mental Attitude project took place with a community-based football league for people with experience of mental distress and explored the nature and value of participation. Both projects involved researching with people who are often excluded from research. Addressing power imbalances can function to engage marginalised people in processes of knowledge production and enable social justice. Co-production offers useful principles that are democratic, inclusive, collaborative, and participatory, but the process is not straightforward. The reflections within this paper focus on the challenges and opportunities the first and second authors faced as facilitators of co-produced research. Participant and co-researcher quotes reveal how participatory methods and approaches address gaps in experiential knowledge of exclusion and marginalisation. The potential for coproduced research to influence policy and practice is outlined.

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Section: The Positive Mental Attitude (Pma) Research Projectmentioning

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Doing together: reflections on facilitating the co-production of participatory action research with marginalised populations

Pettican

Goodman

Bryant

et al. 2022

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“…The strand reported here developed the Research Steering Group's findings from earlier strands which revealed community and social aspects of participation in the PMA (Pettican et al, 2021 ). The group wanted to create opportunities for people to show as well as tell during the interview process.…”

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“…The Research Steering Group constructed the analytic framework by combining the headings from a literature review the first author had undertaken, the themes from the first strand (Pettican et al, 2021 ), and records of their discussions. They started at a micro level of statements and discourses concerned with, for example, limited organisational resources.…”

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Levelling the playing field: Exploring inequalities and exclusions with a community‐based football league for people with experience of mental distress

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Introduction Sport workforce strategy in the United Kingdom (UK) has identified the occupational therapy profession as being ideally positioned to contribute to public health agendas relating to tackling physical inactivity amongst marginalised populations, such as disabled people and people with experience of mental distress. However, a robust understanding of the enablers, restrictions, and exclusions such groups encounter when seeking to participate in sport and physical activity is currently lacking. Methods This study aimed to gain an in‐depth understanding of the different ways people with experience of mental distress talked about their participation in a community‐based football league in England, in the UK. Nine people took part in this strand of a larger participatory action research (PAR) study, which used go‐along interviews as the method of data collection. In alignment with PAR seeking to address power imbalances, the data from the go‐along interviews were analysed through a Foucauldian lens using a collaboratively produced analytic framework. Findings Participants constructed the community‐based football league as fostering feelings of purpose and belonging, against a backdrop of them describing experiencing stigma and exclusion when seeking to be active in their wider communities. They used the concept of occupational marginalisation to further interpret their situation. Conclusion Understanding why and how people participate in football extends beyond seeing it as an individual exercise to shared social lives and occupations. With this perspective, occupational therapists could address occupational marginalisation in partnership with community sports organisations, collaborating for wider social change beyond specialist services.

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JOS Special Issue: Occupational Science in Europe

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2021

Journal of Occupational Science

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An occupational justice perspective on playing football and living with mental distress

Cited by 6 publications

References 48 publications

Doing together: reflections on facilitating the co-production of participatory action research with marginalised populations

Doing together: reflections on facilitating the co-production of participatory action research with marginalised populations

Levelling the playing field: Exploring inequalities and exclusions with a community‐based football league for people with experience of mental distress

JOS Special Issue: Occupational Science in Europe

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