November 2022 SIG Newsletter

ISBNPA 2022 Phoenix Wrap-up

We had our first business meeting in Phoenix, where we brainstormed on activities for this SIG. Additionally, we organized a dare2share about imPARfections in participatory research in which we shared some of our imperfections in conducting participatory research. Have you missed our first webinar ‘the value and challenges of participatory research for improving health and wellbeing’ by Prof Janine Jurkowski? Here is the link to the recording. 

The winner of the ‘best SIG oral presentation’ ISBNPA 2022 (Best oral presentation within the PRHP SIG) was Janneke De Boer with her presentation "Process evaluation of a participatory developed school-based intervention promoting health sleep in adolescents". We are already looking forward to the inspiring presentations on participatory research next year in Uppsala!

WHAT:   Webinar Participatory in Health Promotion SIG

TITLE:    Participatory research: what is it and how can it benefit your project?

WHEN:  November 28, 2022, 2000 UTC / GMT

REGISTER: Follow this LINK

The SIG Participatory Research and Health Promotion really enjoyed reading how complexity thinking and a participatory approach were combined to address beverage consumption, well-done colleagues! 

Read the paper HERE.

Participatory research can be messy! There are many fields and directions and frameworks you can follow, dependant on the population group, setting and desired outcome you would like to elicit. However, they all have one thing in common, it is all about doing with not on participants. In each newsletter we will try and outline one approach and provide some examples. Who knows, perhaps you can put one into action or have experience in doing so. If you do have specific experience, we would love to hear about it!! 

Table adapted from : Vaughn, L. M., & Jacquez, F. (2020). Participatory Research Methods – Choice Points in the Research Process. Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.35844/001c.13244

We will look at getting real world thoughts on participatory research from a range of participatory researchers. This month, Paul Estabrooks.

Professor of Health & Kinesiology and Associate Dean of Community Engagement in the College of Health, University of Utah. 

Why am I passionate about participatory research?  

“I am really motivated by the fact that participatory research can advance more relevant science and achieve a concurrent impact in the communities we partner with. AND it is really fun to work with people from a range of backgrounds and organizations!”

“The most challenging thing with participatory research is when the work you do together isn’t successful. Reporting data back to community partners in a transparent way, when an intervention or an implementation strategy didn’t work, can result in incredible disappointment. Easing the possible pain on this during the planning phase of a project (i.e., preparing for the potential that things might not work out and having a plan for how the partnership can pivot in the face of unsuccessful results).”