Towards Just Dance Research

Addressing the information needs of informal carers in Malawi: a healthcare intervention based on co-creation

“…We followed a culturally responsive co-production approach to mitigate against the inescapable power dynamics that can emerge between research participants and researchers and to continuously reflect on our positionality as researchers working in the Global South. Power dynamics can emerge due to differences “such as Western–non-Western, older–younger, blackness–whiteness, academic–non-academic, high formal education–no formal education” (Hovde et al. , 2021).…”

“…We followed a culturally responsive co-production approach to mitigate against the inescapable power dynamics that can emerge between research participants and researchers and to continuously reflect on our positionality as researchers working in the Global South. Power dynamics can emerge due to differences "such as Western-non-Western, olderyounger, blackness-whiteness, academic-non-academic, high formal education-no formal education" (Hovde et al, 2021). These differences are often unavoidable and researchers must acknowledge them and their own positionality for overcoming dichotomies, understanding alternative ways of being and knowing (Jimenez et al, 2022) and producing knowledge together with research participants by valuing their local expert knowledge.…”

“…Power dynamics can emerge due to differences "such as Western-non-Western, older-younger, blackness-whiteness, academic-non-academic, high formal education-no formal education" (Hovde et al, 2021). These differences are often unavoidable and it is important that researchers acknowledge them and their own positionality for overcoming dichotomies, understanding alternative ways of being and knowing (Jimenez et al, 2022), and for producing knowledge In what follows, we discuss the data collection methods and the findings for each phase separately, to provide a more streamlined overview of our work, showcase the conceptual links between the two, and the ways in which our co-creation approach informed and shaped the second phase.…”