scholarly journals Building clean(er) sport together: Community-based participatory research with elite athletes and anti-doping organisations from five European countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Petroczi ◽  
Andrew Heyes ◽  
Sam D Thrower ◽  
Laura A Martinelli ◽  
Ian Boardley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Elite Athletes ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk

In this study, we give voice to athletes and explore what ‘clean’ means for them in elite sport. Working together with elite athletes and National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) in five European countries, we investigated the meaning and importance of ‘clean sport’ and ‘clean athlete identity’ from the athletes’ perspectives. With athletes as co-researchers, we conducted focus group interviews involving 82 athletes from Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia and the UK. The results show that clean athlete identity – which is a strong protection against doping and cheating in sport - is a social endeavour, which should be reflected in anti-doping interventions. Athletes’ accounts suggest that clean athlete identity is reinforced, but not created, by values-based (anti-doping) education. Whilst clean athlete identity is universally rooted in upbringing, early experiences and love of sport; definition of clean performance enhancement is highly idiosyncratic. Both problems and solutions in anti-doping were identified as systemic. Participatory research with athletes and stakeholders is a feasible and rewarding avenue for sport organisations with responsibility for anti-doping for athlete involvement.

Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim and University Researchers: Partnering in Community Health Development

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-40
Author(s):  
Luis Marcos ◽  
M. Rosales ◽  
Alexander Rödlach ◽  
John Stone
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Healthcare Research ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Working Together

Applied anthropologists value participatory action research (PAR). In 2008, the Society for Applied Anthropology bestowed the 2008 Bronislaw Malinowski Award upon Orlando Fals-Borda, who is best known for developing the theory and methodology of this approach and his leadership in social and political activism on behalf of and with marginalized communities. Fals-Borda argues that PAR encourages value-driven and collaboratively-conducted research that transforms the relationship between marginalized communities and the organizations that serve them so as to improve their socio-political situation (Fals-Borda and Rahman 1991). Comparably, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the US Department of Health and Human Services has recognized the value of community-based participatory research for both researchers and the community being studied (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2004:1). The Agency has emphasized the importance of academic professionals and community members working together in community-based participatory research as equal partners in developing, implementing, and using research findings to improve local health and healthcare. Community-based participatory research and participatory action research share many features.

scholarly journals Can scientists and knowledge keepers sit comfortably together? An Indigenous physician’s reflections on a decade of participatory research into First Nations nutrition, environment and health

2021 ◽  
Vol 112 (S1) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Evan Adams
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Nutrition Environment ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Collaborative Community ◽  
Working Together ◽  
History Of ◽  
Environment Study

AbstractThe author, an Indigenous physician, offers his reflections on the history of scientific research with Indigenous People and its past role in ethical breaches and excesses of colonialism, as a backdrop to the relatively recent advances in collaborative, community-based participatory research involving First Nations and Inuit in Canada. The First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (2008–2018), introduced in this Special Issue, is presented as an example of an ethical space that was sustained for a decade to collaboratively develop new knowledge by First Nations and scientists working together, respectfully and inspired by shared interest. A short overview of twelve articles of the Special Issue is provided and characterized as creating a previously inaccessible picture of the modern diets of First Nations, along with the suite of environmental factors that are present in food and water in and around communities. Ultimately, the author hopes that Canadian society can set the table with Indigenous Peoples and respectfully set opinions onto each other and do this over and over again. With Canada already being a multicultural and pluralistic society, adding Indigenous realities into the mix only respects and honours the Indigenous roots of this country.

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