Community researchers and community researcher training

Thomas-Hughes, Helen

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“…1). Community researchers are normally 'peers' to those being researched (123) , usually due to geographical proximity or shared characteristics or experiences, for example, people who use drugs (124) or cancer survivors (125) .…”

Section: Situating the Community Food Researcher Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Community Researcher relationships to the 'community' they are researching are variable (123) . They may have personal relationships with those they are researching, creating potential for coercion and conflicts of interest (142) .…”

Section: Situating the Community Food Researcher Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given these complexities and the known power asymmetries within the food system (148,149) , there is a need for careful consideration of community research design and process, for example, including appropriate emotional and peer support for community researchers (123) and 'wrap up' activities to create closure at the end of initiatives (142) . Role-specific training is also essential to prepare peer researchers for group facilitation, for example counselling sessions (150) and exploration of challenges and tensions of the 'insider research role', such as conflicts of interest and confidentiality (142) .…”

Section: Situating the Community Food Researcher Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, it is important to remember Community Researchers have varied backgrounds and motivations (147,151) . To reflect these varied learning styles, training should offer different types of value, and the research design includes next steps for the Community Researchers to progress with their new skills (123) . Training can also be a space for power dynamics to be re-written, if intentionally delivered to facilitate this (123) .…”

Section: Situating the Community Food Researcher Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To reflect these varied learning styles, training should offer different types of value, and the research design includes next steps for the Community Researchers to progress with their new skills (123) . Training can also be a space for power dynamics to be re-written, if intentionally delivered to facilitate this (123) . For example, by demystifying academic terms, community researchers can be enabled to have more input into the process (123) .…”

Section: Situating the Community Food Researcher Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Engaging with ‘less affluent’ communities for food system transformation: a community food researcher model (FoodSEqual project)

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Hunt,

Gardiner

et al. 2023

Proc. Nutr. Soc.

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The UK food system is distorted by inequalities in access, failing the people most in need, yet it should provide access to safe, nutritious affordable food for all citizens. Dietary patterns are associated with sociodemographic characteristics, with high levels of diet-related disease mortality attributed to poor dietary habits. Disadvantaged UK communities face urgent public health challenges, yet area often treated as powerless recipients of dietary and health initiatives. The need for food system transformation has been illustrated within recent UK government policy drivers and research funding. The Food Systems Equality project1 is a research consortium that aims to ‘co-produce healthy and sustainable food systems for disadvantaged communities’. The project focusses on innovating food products, supply chains and policies, placing communities at the center of the change. Tackling the above issues requires new ways of working. Creative approaches in food research are known to empower a wider range of individuals to share their ‘lived food experience’ narratives, building relationships and corroborating co-production philosophies, thus promoting social justice, and challenging more traditional positivist/reductionist ‘biomedical’ approaches for nutrition and food studies. This review paper critiques the use of community-centric approaches for food system transformation, focusing on one, a community food researcher model 1 as an exemplar, to highlight their utility in advocating with rather than for less affluent communities. The potential for creative methods to lead to more equitable and lasting solutions for food system transformation is appraised, consolidating the need for community driven systemic change to foster more progressive and inclusive approaches to strengthen social capital. The paper closes with practice insights and critical considerations offering recommendations for readers, researchers, and practitioners, enabling them to better understand and apply similar approaches.

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Section: Situating the Community Food Researcher Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Situating the Community Food Researcher Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Situating the Community Food Researcher Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Situating the Community Food Researcher Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Engaging with ‘less affluent’ communities for food system transformation: a community food researcher model (FoodSEqual project)

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Hunt,

Gardiner

et al. 2023

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Improving Mobility in Marginalised Communities

Musselwhite

2023

Future Transportation

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This paper examines how mobility can be re-examined within four communities that face substantial transport barriers. Four case study communities facing mobility exclusion were investigated: (i) an ageing community in South Wales; (ii) a community of people with learning difficulties from across Wales; (iii) female university students in Pakistan; (iv) a deprived neighbourhood in mid-Wales. Using an illuminative evaluation, collating a variety of information from documents associated with the communities, it was identified that transport creates freedom, independence, and contributes to sense of purpose, worth, and can help create community. Barriers to public transport include inaccessibility of the first/last mile, services not running at required times, being delayed, and cancelled. Barriers to active travel include poor infrastructure. Not being able to be mobile affects health, not just with a lack of active travel but also missed health appointments and a lack of access to healthy foods. Already marginalised communities are further disadvantaged by the barriers reducing access to jobs, education, services, shops, and leisure. Communities want support to develop their knowledge into a package that actors can use to develop a solution, often citing the need for quantitative skills, however, other ways of utilising experiential knowledge might be more appropriate.

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Community researchers and community researcher training

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Engaging with ‘less affluent’ communities for food system transformation: a community food researcher model (FoodSEqual project)

Engaging with ‘less affluent’ communities for food system transformation: a community food researcher model (FoodSEqual project)

Improving Mobility in Marginalised Communities

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