| The Participatory Research Newsletter |
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This monthly newsletter aims to highlight the participatory research initiatives emerging from Participatory Research @ McGill (PRAM), and Community Information, Empowerment and Transparency (CIET), as well as share new opportunities for projects, courses, funding, and more!
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Note, the PRAM newsletter is offered in the following languages:
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An ever busy team, below are a few updates from the PRAM/CIET network.
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Monthly Meeting
Violence among young people in Botswana: Local knowledge of causes of violence against young women and suicide among young men
The PRAM team unites monthly to provide project updates, present research protocols, practice dissertations defences, and more.
This month, Drs Anne Cockcroft and Iván Sarmiento presented their preliminary findings from fuzzy cognitive mapping sessions with community members in Botswana. In these sessions, participants identified factors that led to increased violence against women, as well as suicide in young men. Still in its early stages of analysis, this project's preliminary results uncovered interacting and overlapping factors that could be addressed to reduce violence in communities. We look forward to updates as this project progresses!
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Project Updates
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Bauchi State, Nigeria
Back in February, we reported on the ongoing fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) training sessions from Nigeria, where young facilitators and reporters were learning to conduct FCM sessions with adolescents. Now having completed these mapping sessions with stakeholders and adolescents, analysis of these maps is currently underway.
Throughout this analysis process, valuable lessons have been learned about conducting maps across multiple communities and various stakeholder groups, leading to a better understanding of how to ensure high quality maps while widening participant scope.
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| Cellphilming in Bauchi State, Nigeria |
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New project developments are underway in Bauchi State, Nigeria, as cellphilming training for the local research team begins this month!
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Training-the-Trainers: For cellphilming on a bigger scale
This month, local members of the Bauchi research team begin their cellphilming training with two practical training sessions provided over Zoom. PRAM team members Anne Cockcroft, Umaira Ansari, and Khalid Omer Siddiqui will also be joining in.
Nesa Bandarchian Rashti, a PhD candidate from the Participatory Cultures Lab at McGill University, will lead the training. She has extensive experience in both supporting young people to create cellphilms and training new facilitators.
Following these training sessions, the Bauchi research team will train young facilitators who will later support adolescent girls and boys and other community members to create cellphilms exploring their experiences on the topic of sexual and reproductive health.
This is an exciting opportunity for the large scale application of a participatory visual research methodology: 30 communities will be involved, with an estimated 500 young participants!
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Training sessions with local researchers
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Below is a list of the upcoming courses taught this Fall at McGill University by PRAM team members.
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| FMED 603: Foundations of Participatory Research |
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| Online | Professor Neil Andersson |
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FMED 603 is a one-credit research course offered by the Department of Family Medicine at McGill.
Foundations of participatory research covers the science and discipline of partnerships underlying research, research governance, ownership of research products and relationships behind research objectives and methods.
Founding principles include respectful partnerships, cultural safety, and intercultural dialogue. The course introduces participatory frameworks and methods for co-design and co-management of research, participatory media and integrated knowledge translation, quality improvement, and adaptive management of services.
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| FMED 604: Advanced Participatory Research in Health |
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| In-person sessions | Professor Neil Andersson |
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FMED 604 is a three-credit research course offered by the Department of Family Medicine at McGill. Advanced participatory research reflects on the science and discipline of partnerships underlying research. It is concerned with research governance, ownership of research products and relationships behind research objectives and methods. As a discipline or method set, participatory research is co-creation of knowledge through equitable partnerships with people affected by the issue or who will act on its results – patients, health professionals, policy makers, community members or communities.
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| FMED 702: Advanced Uses of Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping |
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| In-person | Drs Neil Andersson & Samira Abbasgholizadeh-Rahimi |
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FMED 702 is a one-credit research seminar offered by the Department of Family Medicine at McGill that covers various topics relevant to advanced family medicine and primary care research. For this fall, an applied course on Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping (FCM) is being offered. Participants will learn about the practical applications of FCM and its analysis, with a particular focus on its use to co-create knowledge in participatory research settings.
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Classes begin August 31st. Register now!
For more information about the courses, please contact Michaela Field at michaela.field@mcgill.ca
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Highlighted below are some of the most recent publications from the industrious PRAM team:
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Authors: Anne Cockcroft, Khalid Omer, Yagana Gidado, Rilwanu Mohammed, Loubna Belaid, Umaira Ansari, Claudia Mitchell & Neil Andersson
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Authors: Hadiza Mudi, Umar Dutse, Loubna Belaid, Umaira Ansari, Khalid Omer, Yagana Gidado, Muhd Chadi Baba, Amina Mahdi, Neil Andersson & Anne Cockcroft
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