Creating online participatory research spaces: insights from creative, digitally mediated research with children during the COVID-19 pandemic

Our article draws on research undertaken with children during the 2020–21 COVID-19 pandemic in order to consider the potential of digitally mediated participatory research for child-centred research practice. Our specific focus is on how children’s inclusion can be centred in the absence of opportunities to meet in person. We reflect on how we sought to support children’s engagement through offline and online creative activities and explore how these digitally mediated spaces can facilitate children’s inclusion, creative engagement and dialogue. We offer examples from our arts-based, digitally mediated research to consider how researchers might work remotely, yet inclusively, in contexts where children have been marginalised and their voices silenced. Our research suggests that scaffolding creative activities through bespoke digital animation and asynchronous chat can facilitate children to participate in ways of their choosing. However, to address equity of inclusion researchers must attend to the contingencies of children’s digital, material and social exclusion.

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Participatory Research with Children and Young People: Using Visual, Creative, Diagram, and Written Techniques

Methodological Approaches ◽

10.1007/978-981-4585-89-7_19-1 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 1-25

Author(s):

Thomas Grant

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Participatory Research ◽

Children And Young People ◽

Research With Children

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Ist die soziale Lage der Menschen mit Behinderung „prekär“? – Theoretische Anregungen für die Teilhabeforschung in Deutschland

Sozialer Fortschritt ◽

10.3790/sfo.68.5.411 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 68 (5) ◽

pp. 393-411

Author(s):

Bernhard Schrauth

Keyword(s):

Social Exclusion ◽

Participatory Research ◽

Social Situation ◽

Reference Points ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

Soziale Lage ◽

Sociological Approach ◽

Gradual Process ◽

The Social ◽

Menschen Mit Behinderung

Zusammenfassung: Die Prekarisierungstheorie ist ein soziologischer Erklärungsansatz zur Genese sozialer Exklusion in modernen Lohnarbeitsgesellschaften und beschreibt die soziale Ausgrenzung als dynamischen und graduellen Prozess. Entscheidend für die Einbindung des Individuums in die Gesellschaft ist die soziale Positionierung auf den Integrationsachsen der Erwerbsarbeit und des sozialen Lebensumfeldes. Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Erklärungsmuster der Prekarisierungstheorie auf das Forschungsfeld der Teilhabeforschung übertragen und auf die soziale Lage der Menschen mit Behinderung in Deutschland bezogen. Darüber hinaus werden Grenzen der Übertragbarkeit aufgezeigt und Bezugspunkte für die empirische Teilhabeforschung hergestellt. Ziel des Beitrags ist es, die inhaltlichen Grundlagen für die Untersuchung der in verschiedenen Gesellschaftsbereichen oftmals eingeschränkten Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderung zu erweitern. Abstract: The social situation of persons with disabilities in the perspective of the theory on precariousness – new ideas for the participatory research in Germany The theory on precariousness is a sociological approach to describe the occurrence of social exclusion in modern industrialized societies. It captures the phenomenon of social exclusion as a dynamic and gradual process. Accordingly, integration into society depends above all on the individuals’ social positioning in the societal areas of employment and one’s social environment. In this article, the explanatory approach will be adapted to the field of participatory research and the social situation of persons with disabilities. Moreover, limitations of the transfer are outlined and reference points for the empirical investigation in the field of participatory research are established. This contribution aims to broaden the theoretical foundation for empirically oriented research of the often limited participation of persons with disabilities in society.

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