Perspectives of Community Co-Researchers About Group Dynamics and Equitable Partnership Within a Community–Academic Research Team

Vaughn, Lisa M.; Jacquez, Farrah; Zhen‐Duan, Jenny

doi:10.1177/1090198118769374

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“…The ‘performative interval’ in peer research refers to how much a peer researcher attempts to align themselves with participants, such as through stating shared experience, aligning body language in interviews, and clarifying participant quotes during analysis (Green, 2007). These actions are helpful in community-based participatory research, as they can make participants feel more comfortable and offer rich insight during analysis (Vaughn, Jacquez, & Zhen-Duan, 2018). However, a participant discussed the risk of this performative interval by wondering if their contributions to analysis were truly based in participant quotes or in the peer researcher’s own perspectives on the study topic.…”

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“…These conversations can highlight the value of subjectivity and acknowledge the passion that academic and peer researchers may share to improve healthcare. This process may improve team cohesiveness (Vaughn, Jacquez, & Zhen-Duan, 2018), contribute to more fulsome analyses (Westhues et al., 2008), and create more supportive work environments for peer researchers (Smith et al., 2010).…”

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Peer researchers in post-professional healthcare: A glimpse at motivations and partial objectivity as opportunities for action researchers

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Peer researchers are members of a population under study who have a decision-making role or staff position on a research team. Peer researchers are increasingly required for funding proposals to succeed in Canadian HIV/AIDS research, and are strongly recommended for community-based participatory research in other fields. There is a need to better understand peer researchers’ motivations and their impact, both positive and negative, on studies they take part in. The emerging theory of post-professionalism informed a bounded system case study approach, whereby four peer researchers from an HIV, social work, and brain health study were conveniently sampled, then interviewed concerning their experiences and insider-outsider positioning. Personal interest and community leadership were key motivations behind their involvement; language barriers and managing multiple roles were key challenges. Participants identified a risk inherent in the performative interval, considering whether their contributions were a projection of self rather than a representation of participant contributions. Tension between social location and the insider positioning expected of peer researchers requires that academic researchers recognize the personal and social investments that peers make to a study. This paper presents considerations for how healthcare researchers can better engage as peers with peer researchers.

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“…Existing literature on youth as community change researchers has emphasized the importance of socializing and fun into program activities (Nygreen et al, 2006) in order to build a network of support amongst one another. We have found relationship building to be critically important in our previous CBPR research teams (Vaughn et al, 2018), so we intentionally designed activities to build authentic relationships among youth within and between schools. We also created opportunities for youth to build relationships with academic leaders at the university with the long-term goal of making youth feel comfortable on campus and to develop a sense of belonging in high education settings.…”

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Building a Culture of Youth as Co-Researchers: A Framework for a STEM Pipeline Program

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Boards

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STEM pipeline programs often include research experiences for youth, but fewer focus on youth as shared decision-makers or leaders in research efforts. Youth participatory action research (YPAR) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) orientations suggest that the quality and relevance of research will benefit from youth partnership. Because youth do not traditionally have the opportunity to serve in this type of leadership capacity, STEM pipeline programs that wish to elevate the role of youth in research must create a new culture of co-creation that upends the traditional pedagogical models adolescents experience in high school.We present Research Kickoff as a strategy to engage youth as co-researchers from their very first experience in a year-long STEM pipeline program. We designed activities around a framework consisting of six components: content, process, voice, network, engagement, and culture. Each of the six components of our framework are represented in a series of activities that include participatory research processes, inviting collaboration and valuing diverse expertise, and relationship building. To inform future programs interested in engaging youth as co-researchers, we detail the iterative development of Research Kickoff over two cohorts and describe how it serves to engage youth as change agents from the first touch.

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“…Because the project is informed by community-based participatory methods, we sought to engage survivors in the way that the work was represented and disseminated. Working to provide equitable partnerships throughout a project is a key ingredient of community-based participatory methods (Vaughn, Jacquez, & Zhen-Duan, 2018). Survivors who presented at the summit were e-mailed an invitation to be co-writers in this publication.…”

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Lifelong Wellbeing for Survivors of Sex Trafficking: Collaborative Perspectives From Survivors, Researchers, and Service Providers

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This article summarizes a collaborative effort by researchers, service providers, and women who have experienced exploitation and trafficking for sex, to inform policy and practice related to care for survivors. The effort brought together current research program experience from around the world, and survivor perspectives, in a 2015 interactive forum entitled "STREETS of Hope: Listening to and Supporting Survivors of Human Trafficking. " A participatory approach to defining wellbeing, designed especially for use with vulnerable or highly marginalized populations of women and girls, provided the framework for the discussions. In addition, attempts were made to use principles of trauma-informed care during the workshop itself, toward the overall goals of 1) working as equals to inform research agendas; 2) gaining insights from survivors to improve services; and 3) providing survivors and all participants with a wellbeing model that can help them think and speak with specificity and clarity about their personal growth, wellbeing, and self-care. The results of the interactive two-day workshop and subsequent consultations included: 1) increased understandings and more detailed descriptions of what wellbeing is from the lived experience of survivors, and 2) insights about ways that services and care can be more responsive to the needs and preferences of survivors. Further, the collective exercise suggested revisions and specifications to the wellbeing model itself. Finally, the collaborators identified future directions for their shared research and practice. Overall, the experience of the "STREETS of Hope Forum" supports the idea that iterative, equitable, collaborative work with survivors must be employed to inform systems of care, and that a dynamic and multi-dimensional concept of wellbeing can help survivors, researchers, program leaders and policy-makers to foster support and agency throughout the life course. For those who participated, "STREETS of Hope" constituted a reframing of the goals of services care. It enabled us to think beyond basic needs and survival as defined by caregivers, to one that centers the experience of survivors and fosters recognition of and realization of their talents and life aspirations. ABSTRACTThis article summarizes a collaborative effort by researchers, service providers, and women who have experienced exploitation and trafficking for sex, to inform policy and practice related to care for survivors. The effort brought together current research program experience from around the world, and survivor perspectives, in a 2015 interactive forum entitled "STREETS of Hope: Listening to and Supporting Survivors of Human Trafficking." A participatory approach to defining wellbeing, designed especially for use with vulnerable or highly marginalized populations of women and girls, provided the framework for the discussions. In addition, attempts were made to use principles of trauma-informed care during the workshop itself, toward the overall goals of 1) working as equals to inform research ...

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Perspectives of Community Co-Researchers About Group Dynamics and Equitable Partnership Within a Community–Academic Research Team

Cited by 24 publications

References 33 publications

Peer researchers in post-professional healthcare: A glimpse at motivations and partial objectivity as opportunities for action researchers

Peer researchers in post-professional healthcare: A glimpse at motivations and partial objectivity as opportunities for action researchers

Building a Culture of Youth as Co-Researchers: A Framework for a STEM Pipeline Program

Lifelong Wellbeing for Survivors of Sex Trafficking: Collaborative Perspectives From Survivors, Researchers, and Service Providers

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