​Time zones:
7.30 p.m. – 9.30 p.m. India
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. GMT
9.00 a.m. – 11 a.m. Colombia, EST Canada and USA
6.00 a.m. – 8.00 a.m. BC, Canada

 
It was in 1976 that a group of interested persons across North America first met to discuss Participatory Research (PR) as an alternative means of research and use of knowledge for social change. In 1980, the first international meeting on Participatory Research was held in Ljubljana (in former Yugoslavia), attended by early pioneers of this ‘movement’ (Budd Hall, John Gaventa, Ted Jackson, Helen Lewis, Orlando Fals Borda, Rajesh Tandon, to name a few). The discussions from this meeting, and of the practice and theorising of Participatory Research over the next decade, began to be circulated internationally and regionally in cyclostyled newsletters, articles in now-defunded journals, and documentation of conference proceedings. Knowledge produced by social movements, in civil society, political organisations and in academia was synthesized and presented in an array of forms – text, statistics, drama, poetry, video, learning games. Such locally created and owned knowledge, used as tools to build capacities of community and social organisations in the Global South, contributed to the steady spread and sustained development of the theory and practice of Participatory Research.
 
The origins and history of the development of the field of Participatory Research has largely remained undocumented, though it is a significant part of the oral tradition of its ‘elders’ who spearheaded the movement.

In a seminal event celebrating 40 years of PRIA, in partnership with the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research, we bring you the knowledge and experience of the ‘elders’ of Participatory Research. A lesson in history, along with explorations of its contemporary manifestations, spotlights the relevance of community-based, participatory research in a post-pandemic world. The symposium will explore the following questions:

• why is it important for researchers to make research relevant to and for the people,? We will learn from the experience of the 'elders' and pioneers of Participatory Research.
• what strategies, with leadership from the Global South, is required to re-energise similar and different others to overcome a tired-ness/co-option of using Participatory Research, and to build capacities to use research for social transformation?

​Panelists:

• Dr. Budd Hall, Senior Associate, Centre for Global Studies; Professor Emeritus, Public Administration, University of Victoria, Canada
• Dr. Rajesh Tandon, Founder-President, PRIA, India
• Dr. Edward Jackson, Adjunct Research Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, and Senior Research Fellow, Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, Canada
• Dr. John Gaventa, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK
• Dr. Patricia Maguire, Professor Emeritus of Education and Counseling, Western New Mexico University ‑ Gallup Graduate Studies Center, USA
• Dr. Yusuf Kassam, Independent Participatory Researcher, Canada
• Dr. Deborah Barndt, Professor Emerita, York University, Toronto, Canada
• Prof. Normando Suarez, Assoc Prof in Sociology Department, UNAL, Colombia

In conversation with:
Juan Mario Diaz Arevalo, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield, and Sumitra Srinivasan, PRIA, India
 
Translators:
Walter Vanegas and Delia Ballén. Service provided by Transmisiones Live, Colombia, with the support of the Strategic Research Support Fund, Department of Politics and IR, University of Sheffield.

Position Paper 4: Participatory Health Research is now posted! Under 'Resources' visit the 'Position Paper & Discussion Papers' page.

Guest Editors: 
Dr. María Roura
School of Public Health,
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
maria.roura@ucc.ie

Dr. Kim Ozano
International Public Health,
Centre for Neglected Tropical
Diseases (CNTD), Liverpool
School of Tropical Medicine,
Pembroke Pl, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK
kim.ozano@lstmed.ac.uk

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022
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Message from the Guest Editors
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the broader determinants of health in the context of a severely racialized pandemic. We welcome papers focused on the social and structural determinants of COVID-19 in migrants and ethnic minorities, with a particular emphasis on the racial, gender, political, and legislative determinants of health. We are particularly interested in papers that employ transdisciplinary, participatory, and co-production research approaches to meaningfully involve migrants and ethnic minorities in the response to COVID-19, in its broadest sense. This includes a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, occupational determinants of health, access and uptake of vaccines, participation of ethnic minorities in clinical trials, stigma and discrimination, the built environment, living conditions, health care entitlements, and any other broader determinant of health; as well as approaches and tools to meaningfully engage migrants and ethnic minorities in action-oriented research.

The Independent Social Research Foundation is offering flexible grants for small groups. To learn more about this opportunity please visit the granting page here. 

The deadline for applications is October 8th, 2021, 5pm BST.

Ethics in participatory research under Covid-19 
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Request for case examples (by 31 July 2021)

Susanne Börner, University of Birmingham, UK, s.borner@bham.ac.uk
Petra Plunger, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria, pplunger@fhstp.ac.at
Sarah Banks, Durham University, UK, s.j.banks@durham.ac.uk

Invitation
We are inviting people to write short case examples about ethical issues in conducting participatory research during Covid-19 restrictions. By ‘participatory research’ we mean research where people who might usually be regarded as subjects of research play a more active role in at least some aspects of the process (e.g. design, data collection, analysis, dissemination, implementation). We are seeking to include examples from different countries around the world, as well as from working across different groups in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, etc., relating to health and social well-being in the wider sense. The case studies can include (but are not limited to) issues such as: access to communities during Covid-19, trust-building online, issues of privacy and confidentiality in online communications, tackling digital exclusion, deciding whether to conduct research in-person, the impact of wearing masks and physical distancing, assessing new health risks, power dynamics, roles and responsibilities, etc.
 
The case studies will be placed on the International Collaboration on Participatory Health Research (ICPHR) website. These can be used in training, teaching and in preparing groups to undertake participatory research projects. We may also use them in articles or other publications, with the consent of the case writers. The cases will complement the ICPHR ethical guidelines. 

Please download the following CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Participatory Inquiry in Transnational Research Contexts due August 30th, 2021