The Institute for Research into Super diversity (IRiS) and the Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne will be hosting this international conference at the University of Birmingham (UK) on 14th and 15th September 2017. The conference will draw together academics, community-based practitioners and researchers, policy makers and doctoral researchers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to consider various aspects of research co-production with communities. For more information, see here:
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/superdiversity-institute/2017-conference/2017-Conference.aspx
 

Newsletter of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICPHR)

Fourth Quarter, 2016

Information en français: Nita Chaudhuri, chaudhuri.nita@orange.fr
Informatión en español: Francisco Javier Mercado Martinez, francisco.mercado@cucs.udg.mx
Informação em Português: Irma Brito, irmabrito@esenfc.pt
Information auf Deutsch: Michael Wright, michael.wright@khsb-berlin.de

In this Issue:

1.        Annual Working Meeting 2017 in Ireland
2.        1st Global Assembly for Knowledge Democracy
3.        Add us to Your Website
4.        Getting Involved

1 Annual Working Meeting 2017 in Ireland

        The next Annual Working Meeting will take place in Limerick (Ireland) from 25-27 May 2017.  A pre-conference will take place earlier that week in Galway to which all ICPHR will be invited.  Registration will open soon on the website!  More information on the program and on opportunities for presenting participatory projects will also be made available on the site.

2 1st Global Assembly for Knowledge Democracy

        The Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) will convene its 2017 Annual Conference along with the 1st Global Assembly for Knowledge June 12-16 in Cartagena, Colombia. The gathering is being developed through a partnership between ARNA and the National University of Colombia/Nacional Universidad De Colombia.  The National Pedagogic University of Colombia/Universidad Pedagogica Nacional and many other Colombian, Latin American, Caribbean, and North American colleges and universities as well as global universities, networks and institutions are also serving as affiliates and sponsors.  Prof. Tina Cook from the Executive Committee of the ICPHR is on the planning committee and several ICPHR members will be contributing to the conference.  More information, click here. 

3 Add us to Your Website

        Adding a link to the ICPHR website is an important way you can contribute to spreading the word about our work!

4 Getting Involved

        The best way to get involved in the work of the ICPHR is through the Project Groups and Focus Areas.  Contact the coordinators of the projects which meet your interests.  Members are also welcome to set up new projects.  This can be done by submitting an idea to the Central Office.  Or maybe you represent an organization and are looking to cooperate with the ICPHR.  Just send an email to the Central Office with a description of your work and we will contact you.  Our list of current projects can be found here.  The Focus Areas are described here.