The challenges and opportunities of conducting PhD participatory action research on sensitive issues: Young people and sexting

York, Leanne; Mackenzie, Alison; Purdy, Noel

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“…The term co-production has been adopted to describe approaches of variable standards and levels of involvement (Beresfordet al 2021;Glynos and Speed 2012). Rather than introduce a new way of 'doing' co-production, the authors suggest the usefulness of PAR to support and guides coproduced research, which may be helpful for novice researchers unfamiliar with collaborative working (York, MacKenzie, and Purdy et al 2021). This is highlighted within the identified reflective themes, which indicate sustained commitment to addressing power imbalances, grounding the PAR approach in trusting, equitable and respectful relationships: a principle of co-production (Smith et al 2022).…”

Section: Aligning Par and Co-productionmentioning

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Doing together: reflections on facilitating the co-production of participatory action research with marginalised populations

Pettican

Goodman

Bryant

et al. 2022

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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Recognising the limited literature detailing the practical application of coproduction principles and practices within sport, exercise and health research, critical reflections on co-production principles and practice are shared here, drawing on two participatory action research (PAR) projects in the United Kingdom (UK). Co-production and PAR are distinguished, and their commonalities discussed. Both projects were facilitated by occupational therapists and concerned with health inequities and social justice. The Voices for Inclusive Activity project brought disabled people together online to explore more accessible and inclusive approaches to evaluate disability sport and physical activity. The Positive Mental Attitude project took place with a community-based football league for people with experience of mental distress and explored the nature and value of participation. Both projects involved researching with people who are often excluded from research. Addressing power imbalances can function to engage marginalised people in processes of knowledge production and enable social justice. Co-production offers useful principles that are democratic, inclusive, collaborative, and participatory, but the process is not straightforward. The reflections within this paper focus on the challenges and opportunities the first and second authors faced as facilitators of co-produced research. Participant and co-researcher quotes reveal how participatory methods and approaches address gaps in experiential knowledge of exclusion and marginalisation. The potential for coproduced research to influence policy and practice is outlined.

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Section: Aligning Par and Co-productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Doing together: reflections on facilitating the co-production of participatory action research with marginalised populations

Pettican

Goodman

Bryant

et al. 2022

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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Credible, Competent Contributors: Children and Young People as Postdigital Citizen Social Scientists

MacKenzie

2024

Postdigit Sci Educ

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I argue that participatory action research (PAR) is a valuable means by which to advance citizen social science, not by researching with and on adults, but with children and young people (CYP). Given the right opportunities, using child-friendly and child-centred research methods, CYP can be credible, competent contributors to social science, including the digital environment. The foundational goals of PAR are empowerment, transformation, and enfranchisement of the traditionally marginalised, and none are more universally and structurally marginalised than CYP. Using a child rights argument, I explain why CYP continue to be excluded from research and why there is still so much scepticism that CYP are credible contributors. One reason is childism, a system of oppression, prejudice, and discrimination against CYP on account of their perceived status as not yet human and not fully rational beings. Childism entails the belief that adults are automatically superior to children. I argue further that CYP’s participation in postdigital social science research enacts the entitlements in Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), even though state parties, having ratified this landmark convention, find it very challenging to do more than simply laud its aims. Using three case studies of CYP’s contribution to research and human rights activism, I make the case that they are expert knowers of their own social and digital experiences and have the skills and insights to examine their social worlds in ways that adult researchers too easily overlook, downplay, or simply ignore. As importantly is that CYP are expert users of digital and social media. Their epistemic and ontological experiences as users, creators, contributors, and disseminators of content, and as targets of malign actors, must be included in any research, policy, or law.

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Navigating collaborative and participatory research during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Emerging possibilities from a network of PhD students

Guerrero,

Dobson

2024

Possibility Studies & Society

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Collaborative and Participatory Research (CPR) presents different challenges for doctoral students, compared to other researchers. Even under ‘normal’ circumstances, engaging with CPR poses intricate practical and ethical challenges. For instance, understanding CPR or forming alliances to co-create knowledge can be particularly challenging. Moreover, the increasing popularity of CPR within universities is not always accompanied by sufficient training in these approaches for doctoral students. In this paper, we first present reflections on a participatory research project developed by one of the authors during the COVID-19 emergency. Specifically, we discuss the difficulties faced during their PhD fieldwork in Santiago, Chile, in 2020. One of the main obstacles was the need for a university network of peers to support and facilitate discussions regarding practical and ethical issues that emerged during the collaborative process. Secondly, we present our reflections on our shared experience of participating in and facilitating an interdisciplinary and inter-university reading group about CPR. This group was set up due to a need for more spaces to discuss CPR and an ongoing need for an in-person doctoral community in the hybrid post-lockdown world. We ask and reflect upon two questions: how can we negotiate the tensions involved in employing CPR during and after the COVID-19 emergency to produce an individual PhD thesis? How can an in-person community help us to navigate ethical and practical challenges? We suggest the significance of enabling community-driven, student-led spaces that foster interdisciplinary collaboration within universities. In particular, we advocate for dialogic spaces to discuss ethical issues and express shared vulnerabilities. We suggest that these spaces can help to nurture reflexive openness to new and unexpected possibilities in research. Such spaces are particularly important for tackling the complexities of CPR.

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The challenges and opportunities of conducting PhD participatory action research on sensitive issues: Young people and sexting

Cited by 3 publications

References 43 publications

Doing together: reflections on facilitating the co-production of participatory action research with marginalised populations

Doing together: reflections on facilitating the co-production of participatory action research with marginalised populations

Credible, Competent Contributors: Children and Young People as Postdigital Citizen Social Scientists

Navigating collaborative and participatory research during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: Emerging possibilities from a network of PhD students

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