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.

​The Action Research Network of the Americas 5th annual conference will be combined with the 1st Global Assembly for Knowledge Democracy and take place in Cart as part of a celebration of the 40th Anniversary of 1st World Symposium of Participatory Action Research (PAR), the work of Orlando Fals Borda and the work of Paulo Freire
 
The outline details for the week of events can be found at  http://www.arna2017.unal.edu.co/1. The call for ‘papers’ has now been announced for the three day ARNA conference that will take place before the Global Assembly.  The range of ‘papers’ that could be accepted is outlined at http://www.arna2017.unal.edu.co/1/the-5th-annual-arna-conference-the-1st-global-assembly-for-knowledge-democracy/call-for-proposals.

Please visit the Kids In Action Project Summaries page to read about current Kids In Action projects from across the globe! If you would like to join this group, learn how you can register here.

Newsletter of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICPHR)
 
Third 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 2016 a Success
2. ICPHR Kids in Action Initiative
3. New Publication Documenting the History of the ICPHR
4. Save the Date! Annual Working Meeting 2017 in Ireland
5. Add us to Your Website
6. Getting Involved

 
1 Annual Working Meeting 2016 a Success
 
The Seventh Annual Working Meeting was held in Malmö (Sweden) from August 25th to August 27th.  A pre-conference took place in Göteborg on August 24th where work being conducted in Sweden was presented and international speakers addressed current issues in participatory health research.  The minutes of the Annual Working Meeting will be posted soon on the website.  Also, the list of projects will be updated.  A special thanks to the ICPHR members Margareta Rämgård from Malmö University and Maria Magnusson from the University of Gothenburg and Angered Hospital for organizing and hosting the both meetings!
 
2 ICPHR Kids in Action Initiative
 
Children are an often overlooked group when it comes to participatory research projects.  We have an exciting new opportunity for those who are interested in conducting Participatory Health Research (PHR) with children – the Kids in Action multi-country 3 year collaborative initiative.  The initiative, officially launched at the Annual Working Meeting in Malmö, is being coordinated by Prof. Lisa Gibbs, Director of the Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program and Unit Head of the Evidence and Child Health Unit in the Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne (Australia).  You can find out more about Kids in Action by going to the new page on our website where there is also information about registering. 
 
3 *New* Publication Documenting the History of the ICPHR
 
ICPHR member Dr. Wendy Madsen from the School of Human, Health and Social Services at the Central Queensland University (Australia), has published the article “‘There and back again’: International Collaboration for Participatory Health Researchers’ journeys to evidence based practice and practice based evidence,” documenting the historical development of the ICPHR.  The article can be found in the International Journal of Action Research, Volume 12, Issue 3 (2016), pp. 294-314. 
 4 Save the Date! Annual Working Meeting 2017 in Ireland
 
The Annual Working Meeting 2017 will not take place in Galway (Ireland) as previously announced, but rather in Limerick, from 25-27 May 2017.  A pre-conference will take place earlier that week in Galway to which all ICPHR will be invited.  We will keep you posted through the newsletter and on our website as the details become available.
 
5 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!
 
6 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.

Dear Colleagues,

Please save the date for our 2017 Annual Working Meeting.

When: May 25-27, 2017
Where: Ireland

More details to follow on the meeting page.

We are delighted to announce that registration for the Kids in Action Initiative is now open!
If you are involved in conducting some form of health research, with children under 14 years involved as decision makers and co-researchers, we would love to have you in our Kids in Action international network.

Just go to http://www.icphr.org/kids-in-action.html to submit your application for free registration.
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The Kids in Action network is being established to increase the profile of participatory research with children, to offer local projects increased credibility in their efforts to fund and resource their projects, to provide a platform for shared learning and development of these methods, and a means for generating resources to share with others to support the use of participatory health research with children. There may also be interest among the Kids in Action members to contribute child input into debate about global issues.
 
If you would like further information please contact:
 
Associate Professor Lisa Gibbs
Director, Jack Brockhoff Child Health & Wellbeing Program
University of Melbourne
lgibbs@unimelb.edu.au

We have updated our ICPHR Resources section with a new Quality Criteria For Participatory Health Research paper in German. Visit our ICPHR Resources page to view this new update.