Conducting collaborative research across global North-South contexts: benefits, challenges and implications of working with visual and digital participatory research approaches

McSweeney, Mitchell; Otte, Janet; Eyul, Patrick; Hayhurst, Lyndsay M.C.; Parytci, Donna Tara

doi:10.1080/2159676x.2022.2048059

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“…Following this line of reasoning, Anderson and Herr (1999) argue that teachers should be the active agents in research, sampling the events and telling their own stories of their experiences as professionals in practice. Today, digital techniques have opened up new possibilities for participatory research approaches in many different ways (see McSweeney et al, 2022;Marklund, 2020), which we also consider in this study.…”

Section: Methods and Methodological Considerations In Educational Res...mentioning

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Methodological development through critical reflections on a study focusing on daily valuable encounters in early childhood settings

Manni

Löfgren

2022

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

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This article focuses on the methodological experiences that emerged from a study investigating how teachers valued their daily encounters with children in early childhood education. Early childhood teachers often balance the demands of documentation with time spent with children, so have little time to reflect on their practice. Furthermore, participation in research projects tends to be both time-consuming and distracting from the practitioners’ perspective, without providing immediate opportunities for professional development. The purpose of this article is to elaborate on the use of a mixed-methods approach that combines a quantitative digital tool (an application) for collecting data with the use of short qualitative interviews in order to explore methodological aspects in educational research. The pros of this mixed-methods approach include flexibility, the instant overview of data, and the reflective potential offered to the participants, as well as the researchers. The teachers had the opportunity to ‘set the agenda’ when giving their own definitions of valuable encounters and then reflect on their experiences in their own words. This gave them a strong voice. The main risks of this method concern the dependence on technical devices and software. The authors argue that there is potential in the reflective methodology used in this study to bring research and practice closer in comprehensive knowledge creation. This methodology offers a respectful way to gather information from practice and simultaneously provide opportunities to change.

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Section: Methods and Methodological Considerations In Educational Res...mentioning

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Methodological development through critical reflections on a study focusing on daily valuable encounters in early childhood settings

Manni

Löfgren

2022

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

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“…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).…”

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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

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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Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace

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Conducting collaborative research across global North-South contexts: benefits, challenges and implications of working with visual and digital participatory research approaches

Cited by 6 publications

References 55 publications

Methodological development through critical reflections on a study focusing on daily valuable encounters in early childhood settings

Methodological development through critical reflections on a study focusing on daily valuable encounters in early childhood settings

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

Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace

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