The Journey to a Wider Understanding of Ways of Knowing: Knowledge Translation and the Arts

Boydell, Katherine M.

doi:10.36510/learnland.v12i1.974

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“…It suggests the need for funding bodies and publishers to support lived experience research that will produce findings that can be used directly in people’s daily lives. The current study contributes to knowledge translation by highlighting a strategy that addresses the problem of accessing the evidence base and rendering that evidence base user friendly [ 33 ].…”

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Lived experience research as a resource for recovery: a mixed methods study

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Background Lived experience research is conducted by people who have experience of mental health issues and is therefore better placed than more traditional research to illuminate participants’ experiences. Findings that focus on identifying enablers of recovery from a lived experience perspective have the potential to assist people in their recovery process. However, this lived experience research is often difficult to find, access and interpret. We co-produced user-friendly and engaging resources to disseminate findings from six lived experience research studies. This paper seeks to answer the research questions: a) Did exposure to lived experience research increase hopefulness for participants?; and b) How else did interacting with lived experience research resources influence participants’ lives? Methods Thirty-eight participants were introduced to four resources of their choosing by peer workers over a four-week period. The helpfulness of resources was evaluated using mixed methods, including a quasi-experimental analysis of change in hope, an anonymous survey and in-depth interviews. Results Findings indicated that the resources promoted hope, but that increases in hopefulness may not be seen immediately. Other impacts include that the resources: encouraged helpful activities; provided a positive experience; increased valued knowledge; encouraged people to reflect on their journey and think constructively about mental health issues; helped people to feel less alone; and assisted people to explain their situation to others. Conclusions The research suggests the potential usefulness of lived experience research resources, presented in user-friendly formats, in the lives of people who experience mental health issues and implies a need to nurture this type of research.

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Lived experience research as a resource for recovery: a mixed methods study

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“…Katherine Boydell is the leading figure in art-based knowledge translation in health, having collaborated with patients and artists on projects relating to mental health, physical disability and drug and alcohol issues over many years (see Boydell, 2019). Parsons and Boydell (2012) argue that arts-based knowledge translation in health offers alternative ways to promote dialogue, share stories and communicate lived experience compared to more traditional ways like public presentations, policy briefs or media releases.…”

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“…It is here that health researchers, in sympathy with the GeoHumanities and performative research in the creative arts, recognise arts-based knowledge translation as not just dissemination but also knowledge creation (Archibald & Blines, 2021; see also Haseman, 2010, on the performative research paradigm). Importantly, this new knowledge is often co-created with research participants who are themselves patients and then translated again through public exhibition and display, which may include work that has been reinterpreted by practising artists (see Boydell, 2019). Essentially, arts-based knowledge translators in health 'convert' passive knowledge into active knowledge-knowledge in action and in its social context-through processes that are non-linear and iterative, and with the ultimate goal to improve patients' lives.…”

Section: Arts-based Knowledge Translation In Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Art as Knowledge Translation

Boyd

2022

Exhibiting Creative Geographies

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Beginning with the discipline of geography and its intersections with the humanities, Boyd explores how art has made its way across the academy to the social sciences and health and into science itself. Maintaining a focus on how art has become a vehicle for knowledge translation and exchange, the chapter builds a case for art as geography, especially in the realm of affective knowledge translation.

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“…….. knowledge should be viewed as being created, constructed, embodied, performed and collectively negotiated ." (Boydell, 2019) Boydell goes on to state that notions of evaluation and rigor need to be reconceptualised in order to support the production and dissemination of arts based research.…”

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“…"What is now required are large longitudinal studies of such arts-based health research projects that focus on what works, for whom and in what conditions" (Boydell, 2019) I would agree that longitudinal studies would be helpful, but I contend that it is already known what works for whom and in what conditions. To do more of this type of research would be to confuse the MacGuffin with the Plot.…”

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Personal storytelling for wellbeing; form, content and process

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Nature and scope: This enquiry examines personal storytelling in the form of the practice of digital storytelling. Digital storytelling is seen as a craft, a creative making practice. The enquiry examines what impact engaging in this practice has on wellbeing. It is a practice based enquiry which draws on art and design research methods and considers the many facets that the author brings to the table, including her identity as a maker and occupational therapy educator and especially, the way her own engagement with making enabled personal, transformational learning and recovery from mental illness, shame and grief. The purpose of the enquiry is to bring these new insights back to occupational therapy and science. Contribution to knowledge: Knowing through making, as conceptualised through art and design research methodologies, has the potential to enable occupational therapy and occupational science to realise the original intensions of its founders. A study of the collaborative process of digital story telling has offered a worked example of this. Comparing and contrasting digital story telling with other collaborative making practices uncovered what digital story telling is and what it is not. Digital story telling is a high-status craft. The key to understanding its potential impact on wellbeing is to understand it as a craft – a making practice. Further, the potential impact on wellbeing is determined not by the process or properties of digital story telling itself, but by the care and attention to the detail of the experience and how connections between the people involved are made. A digital story telling workshop is a non-generalisable event, unique to that time and place and those people. What digital story telling is not, is an ideal method of co-production. Its uses as a participatory arts-based research methodology has been well documented, but I contend that the ideal collaboration is one where the team is assembled first. I propose The crystal model of transformational scholarship in human health and wellbeing which sets out how this may be accomplished.

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The Journey to a Wider Understanding of Ways of Knowing: Knowledge Translation and the Arts

Cited by 12 publications

References 15 publications

Lived experience research as a resource for recovery: a mixed methods study

Lived experience research as a resource for recovery: a mixed methods study

Art as Knowledge Translation

Personal storytelling for wellbeing; form, content and process

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