scholarly journals Embracing complexity: Co-creation with retired immigrant women

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Fanjoy ◽  
Bronwyn Bragg
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Embedding Methods

This paper discusses a co-creation project carried out between a post-secondary, immigrant-serving agency and retired immigrant women. We posit that, by engaging with immigrant women in co-creation, we not only deepen our understanding of the challenges they face in retirement, but also generate valuable insights into the process of participatory design and collaboration; namely, the importance of recognizing complexity as a productive, rather than challenging, aspect of knowledge co-creation and collaboration. We show that, by intentionally embedding methods which address issues related to reflexivity, power and difference into the co-creative process, the challenges posed by complexity can by mitigated, leading to positive outcomes for all partners. KEYWORDSCo-creation, participatory research, immigrant women, seniors, post-secondary community partnerships, collaboration

scholarly journals Participatory Design

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 78-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilit Hakobyan ◽  
Jo Lumsden ◽  
Dympna O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Age Related Macular Degeneration ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Effective Design

Ongoing advances in mobile technologies have the potential to improve independence and quality of life of older adults by supporting the delivery of personalised and ubiquitous healthcare solutions. The authors are actively engaged in participatory, user-focused research to create a mobile assistive healthcare-related intervention for persons with age-related macular degeneration (AMD): the authors report here on our participatory research in which participatory design (PD) has been positively adopted and adapted for the design of our mobile assistive technology. The authors discuss their work as a case study in order to outline the practicalities and highlight the benefits of participatory research for the design of technology for (and importantly with) older adults. The authors argue it is largely impossible to achieve informed and effective design and development of healthcare-related technologies without employing participatory approaches, and outline recommendations for engaging in participatory design with older adults (with impairments) based on practical experience.

scholarly journals Two steps forward, one step back: Achievements and limitations of university-community partnerships in addressing neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Warr ◽  
Richard Williams
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Research University ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
One Step ◽  
Local Value ◽  
University Community

This article discusses a partnership initiative that involved a major Australian research university (University of Melbourne), a local government and a network of local community service organisations. The partnership projects aimed to promote public access to university infrastructure for poor and marginalised residents, enhance the local value of research and teaching activities, and create employment opportunities. The article draws on an evaluation of the partnership, which focused on four keynote projects. It found that the partnership appeared to achieve positive outcomes for residents but was limited by tensions associated with the university’s ambivalent commitment to the value of such partnerships. These tensions remained difficult to resolve because they signalled present contestation over the foundational values of contemporary public universities.Keywords: university-community partnerships, neoliberalism, neighbourhoods, community development

scholarly journals From anonymous subject to engaged stakeholder: Enriching participant experience in autistic-language-use research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Louise Williams
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
The Body ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Autistic People ◽  
Participant Experience ◽  
The Impact

Please note, this paper has been peer-reviewed and published open acess. You can find the published version at https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=d93cf2fd-5b3f-4193-a437-da1ff89e83d2, and it can be cited Williams, G.L. (2020) ‘From anonymous subject to engaged stakeholder: Enriching participant experience in autistic-language-use research’. Research for All, 4 (2), 314–28. Online. https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.04.2.13. Please do not cite this preprint.The Talking Together community-engagement pilot project brought together pairs of autistic and non-autistic strangers to: (1) talk about their experiences of loneliness in their local city; and (2) think about potential, co-produced responses to the problem. The project had evolved as a secondary aim, from an initial need to acquire naturalistic conversation data for my linguistic PhD research investigating a theoretical reframing of autistic language use as ‘different’ rather than ‘deficient’. The desire to make the data collection a meaningful experience for the participants in its own right was central to the research design, and so the Talking Together loneliness project was devised as a way to achieve this. However, it was not until the research was under way that the potential for valuable, immediate impact became apparent. This article reflects on the successes and challenges of the Talking Together pilot as a piece of autistic-led participatory research, and explores how the principles of engaged, participatory research can be applied so as to maximize impact, even where engagement may not be a primary aim. It also explores the ‘participatory’ nature of participatory research where the researcher belongs to the marginalized stakeholder group.Keywords: loneliness, autism, conversations, participatory design, data collectionKey messages • Engaged research can enrich linguistic data collection on multiple levels, not least in making the experience more meaningful for stakeholder research participants. • Facilitating strangers to come together to talk about their experiences of loneliness can generate qualitative data on loneliness, while at the same time contributing to reducing the impact of loneliness, as an act of radical ‘world building’. • Supporting autistic people to access doctoral research opportunities is one way of broadening the body of participatory autism research.

Rural School-Community Partnerships: “We Take Care of Our Own!”

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Franklin Elrod ◽  
Sandy D. Devlin ◽  
S. John Obringer
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
School Community ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Secondary Transition ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Transition Training

The authors of this article present a perspective of developing rural school-community partnerships based upon a synergistic foundation that exists in most rural areas. Indicators of this synergism are identified and specific examples are provided of rural school-community partnerships directed at delivering post-secondary transition training for students with disabilities.

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