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community science in California
Community and citizen science special issue of California Agriculture (January-March 2021) Vol 75, No 1
INTRODUCTION Special issue: Community and citizen science by Ryan Meyer, Sabrina Drill, Christopher Jadallah
In this special issue of California Agriculture, we explore diverse examples of science at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) that have involved participation by people not typically expected to play a role in the research process. They might be school-age youth, clientele of UC ANR advisors, volunteers in programs such as the UC Master Gardener Program or the UC California Naturalist Program, or simply interested or concerned members of the public. We refer to this idea of scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateur or nonprofessional scientists as community and citizen science (CCS). There are many other terms for it (see Eitzel et al. 2017) — such as public participation in scientific research, volunteer monitoring, crowd-sourced science, or participatory action research — emanating from various natural and social science disciplines. CCS projects can take many forms, as demonstrated by the many examples throughout this special issue. They can advance scientific research and monitoring in a variety of ways, build trust among the collaborators and create opportunities for outreach, education, stewardship and mutual understanding.
The traditions of Cooperative Extension overlap significantly with CCS. Cooperative Extension was founded with a mission to “to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture and home economics, and to encourage the application of the same” (Conglose 2000). But translating information into a particular context often requires collaboration and a two-way flow of knowledge (Cash 2001).
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We close this introduction with a final note about terminology. We have chosen the broad umbrella term of community and citizen science both here and in the aforementioned report, while recognizing that different forms of CCS stem from a variety of different traditions (Ottinger 2017), and every term has strengths and flaws (Eitzel et al. 2017). For example, some find the word “citizen” problematic for potentially implying that only legal citizens can contribute to science (e.g., Angulo 2020). Others draw clear boundaries around “community science” as an approach driven by community knowledge and priorities, as opposed to the interests of scientists (e.g., Pandya 2019). Rather than dictate a single term, in our editorial process we have encouraged authors in this special issue to use the term that works for them and their collaborators, while being very clear about the reasoning behind that choice.
Report: Assessing community and citizen science at UC ANR The full report can be found at https://education.ucdavis.edu/ccs-cooperative-extension.
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[Citizen Science Association video titled “Make Your Citizen Science Project Count: Strategies to Produce Quality Data”]
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#Participatory action research#Cacao#Literacy#Nutrition#Livelihood#Science communication#Community development
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During the pandemic, we, fans, have been able to rely on some of our already existing coping mechanisms to deal with the increased strain of our mental health due to the global crisis. Participants in a study about the mental health of PhD students during the pandemic responded that their coping strategies mainly included social interaction and recreational activities. Furthermore,
Lower scores of depression and anxiety were predicted by the strength of the overall social network (…)
NAUMANN, SANDRA, LENA MATYJEK, KATHARINA BÖGL, SCHOLAR MINDS, AND ISABEL DZIOBEK. UPDATE ON THE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN ACADEMIA: EFFECTS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS’ MENTAL HEALTH AND SATISFACTION WITH PHD TRAINING, 2022.
In another survey, this one about Philippine BTS fans, social interaction and recreational activities were both listed as ways that fandom supported participants’ mental health.
Despite being isolated from one another geographically due to the lockdown, the fans felt that BTS was with them throughout the pandemic, through their music, live videos, tweets, pictures, and even the mere thought of them.
VANGUARDIA, MARC. “LOVE YOURSELF, BTS ARMY: PARTICIPATORY FANDOM AND AGENCY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.” PHILIPPINES COMMUNICATION SOCIETY REVIEW, 2021, 229.
These digital networks of intimacy allowed for comfort, happiness, and healing to be conveyed and received across miles in the physical realm and created imagined yet profound connections that acted as safe spaces for ARMYs online.
VANGUARDIA, MARC. “LOVE YOURSELF, BTS ARMY: PARTICIPATORY FANDOM AND AGENCY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.” PHILIPPINES COMMUNICATION SOCIETY REVIEW, 2021, 231.
By seeing other ARMYs and interacting with them on various social networking sites, the (survey) participants felt less lonely as a part of a community of people who shared not only the same interest and admiration for BTS but also similar experiences regardless of their cultural, linguistic, gender, and other identifying background. (Participants) pointed out that relationships were formed not only as fans of the same idols but as individuals who were included in each other’s support systems.
VANGUARDIA, MARC. “LOVE YOURSELF, BTS ARMY: PARTICIPATORY FANDOM AND AGENCY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.” PHILIPPINES COMMUNICATION SOCIETY REVIEW, 2021, 241-242
The individual activities and actions that the participants engaged in as fans of BTS served as a distraction from the bleak reality of the pandemic. By being occupied with tasks such as streaming, voting, and getting updated on the fandom over stan Twitter, the fans were able to focus on accomplishing things instead of dwelling on their problems and concerning themselves with the situation of the world around them. By being able to control something they found an anchor that was constant, and had a sense of agency in a time of almost complete uncertainty. (…) The participants exhibited a high level of consciousness of the positive effects and potential drawbacks of their engagement in the fandom. They recognized the various ways that their actions could affect their well-being, and adjusted accordingly by putting themselves in conducive situations that would provide them the greatest benefit.
VANGUARDIA, MARC. “LOVE YOURSELF, BTS ARMY: PARTICIPATORY FANDOM AND AGENCY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.” PHILIPPINES COMMUNICATION SOCIETY REVIEW, 2021, 239-240.
Fandom might be seen then, as a culture that adapted well to the pandemic. It would be tempting to characterise academia as also not needing to change drastically in a world in lockdown.
Drawing a parallel between these two is not a new statement.
In some cases, we argue that academic research interests paralleled fannish passion.
HAYASHI, AYA ESTHER. 2020. “REIMAGINING FAN STUDIES IN THE AGE OF COVID-19 AND BLACK LIVES MATTER.” TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS AND CULTURES, NO. 34. HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.3983/TWC.2020.2029.
However, both fandom and academia have their issues, which were not only carried over into the pandemic but might have been amplified by it . As McMillan Cottom explained in a roundtable about the state of higher education,
Overall, most college leaders saw COVID-19 as an opportunity to do more of what they had already been doing. Schools that had wanted to respond to inequality doubled down on that. School that had been trending toward profit-seeking especially under the guise of a public institution-like Purdue and Arizona State -doubled down.
SHENK, TIMOTHY, MAGGIE DOHERTY, NILS GILMAN, ADAM HARRIS, TRESSIE MCMILLAN COTTOM, AND CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD. ACADEMI AFTER THE PANDEMIC: A ROUNDTABLE ON HOW COVID-19 HAS CHANGED AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES. OTHER. DISSENT, 2021.
(…) participatory culture of affiliation in the BTS ARMY fandom can be ambiguous at best in its effect on fan mental health.
VANGUARDIA, MARC. “LOVE YOURSELF, BTS ARMY: PARTICIPATORY FANDOM AND AGENCY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.” PHILIPPINES COMMUNICATION SOCIETY REVIEW, 2021, 243.
Notwithstanding the positive impacts of involvement in BTS ARMY? The participants generally agreed that some other ARMYs can be very “toxic”, or overly competitive, intense, or aggressive in their way of supporting BTS and engaging in “fan wars” with fans of other groups. To address this problem, some fans distanced themselves from stan Twitter altogether, avoided “toxic” fans by curating the accounts they were following or accounts following them, or decided to temporarily leave or stayed only to focus on ARMY common goals true to the ideals of BTS: The process if compartmentalization of personal and fandom life and interactions between online ARMY friends and personal/in-real-life friends that some participants reported as coping mechanisms for their mental health were a steady reality in network society where inclusions and exclusions always came together.
VANGUARDIA, MARC. “LOVE YOURSELF, BTS ARMY: PARTICIPATORY FANDOM AND AGENCY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.” PHILIPPINES COMMUNICATION SOCIETY REVIEW, 2021, 243.
In a world so changed by the pandemic, looking forward, we cannot accept neither the idea that we can go back to normal, nor the idea that we have moved toward a digital utopia. Harris says,
During the protests and reckoning over systemic racism in American life over the past year, students have been a major part of the national energy. But they haven’t had the chance to be on campus, to be in spaces where they can organize. A lot of college leaders, particularly at predominantly white institutions, are very concerned about what is going to happen when students come back. I think a lot of energy that has been pent up over the last sixteen, seventeen months will reveal itself on campuses.
SHENK, TIMOTHY, MAGGIE DOHERTY, NILS GILMAN, ADAM HARRIS, TRESSIE MCMILLAN COTTOM, AND CHRISTOPHER NEWFIELD. ACADEMI AFTER THE PANDEMIC: A ROUNDTABLE ON HOW COVID-19 HAS CHANGED AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES. OTHER. DISSENT, 2021.
We have to reflect on how to adapt to this world, possibly, how to use our current opportunities to change.
What practices can we introduce at conferences that don’t tokenize BIPOC scholars? (…) Let’s diversify editorial boards and conference planning committees. (…) Let’s create alternative funding for conferences and journals, to transform these practices from unremunerated service activities to activities where labor is honored.
HAYASHI, AYA ESTHER. 2020. “REIMAGINING FAN STUDIES IN THE AGE OF COVID-19 AND BLACK LIVES MATTER.” TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS AND CULTURES, NO. 34. HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.3983/TWC.2020.2029.
#fanhackers#fandom studies#academia#aya esther hayashi#timothy shenk#maggie doherty#nils gilman#adam harris#tressie mcmillan cottom#christopher newfield#marc vanguardia#katharina bögl#sandra naumann#lena matyjek#isabel dziobek#author: szabo dorottya
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Hana Sleiman (هنا سليمان) – Kaoukab Chebaro (كوكب شبارو), Narrating Palestine: The Palestinian Oral History Archive Project, «Journal of Palestine Studies», Vol. 47, No. 2, Winter 2018, pp. 63-76 [Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut]
«Given POHA's commitment to strengthening the researcher's ethical stance, the project team hopes that its efforts will lead researchers to adopt a participatory action research (PAR) framework, whereby meaning is co-constructed "from within," is co-owned and shared, and put at the service of change.29 Such a historiographic stance not only humanizes both the object and the subject of research, creating a meeting of minds in a more egalitarian framework, but it also has the potential to chart the way toward a new ethnography of research on the Nakba.» – (p. 73)
Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA) (أرشيف التاريخ الشفوي الفلسطيني)
#graphic design#history#historiography#ethnography#methodology#journal#hana sleiman#kaoukab chebaro#palestinian oral history archive#journal of palestine studies#institute for palestine studies#2010s
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Reading This Week 2024 #4
working on catching up on reading since i was sick the week before! i think I'm gonna be using a new color for skimmed reading, so i don't mislead you into thinking I fully read more than I did. right now that color is blue
Finished:
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
just housekeeping since I already shared my thoughts in the last post, read for the global novel
Started and Finished:
"The Pocahontas Perplex: The Image of Indian Women in American Culture" by Rayna Green
"Indian Women as Cultural Mediators" by Clara Sue Kidwell (skimmed)
"Decolonizing the Queer Native Body (and Recovering the Native Bull-Dyke): Bringing "Sexy Back" and Out of Native Studies' Closet" by Chris Finley (skimmed)
above three for my native indigenous bodies class
"The Deadly Corruption of Clinical Trials" by Carl Elliott
"Community-Centered Praxis: Toward an Alternative Non-dominative Applied Anthropology" by Merrill Singer (skimmed)
"Ethical and social dilemmas in community-based controlled trials in situations of poverty: a view from a South African project" by Nosisana Nama and Leslie Swartz (skimmed)
"The Personal is Political: Developing new subjectivities through participatory action research" by Caitlin Cahill (skimmed)
above four for my wgs foundations class, the Carl Elliott article is devasting, and a harrowing read
"Prologue," "IV. Bisclavert," and "V. Lanval" from The Lays of Marie de France with commentary and translation by Edward J. Gallagher
"Did the Middle Ages Believe in Their Miracles?" by Steven Justice (skimmed)
above two for the fantasy class i'm assisting. really liked Bisclavert as a werewolf story but there certainly is a lot of misogynistic stuff going on with the women in these stories
excerpts from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver: "Cities & Memory," "Cities & Desire," and "Cities & the Dead 1, 2, & 4"
read for my global novel class, cool to read part of one of those books everyone talks about
"The Fairy Way of Writing" by Joseph Addison from The Spectator No. 419
also for fantasy class
Started and Ongoing:
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, specifically read "The Publisher to the Reader" and "A Voyage to Lilliput"
way more potty humor than i expected, and i enjoyed torturing a friend by reading some of the piss heavy sections of lilliput aloud
The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, translated by Sinan Antoon
now this is a book i have a lot to say on (and i technically finished it the morning i'm writing this but i remain committed to how I am dividing my reading logs). i'm reading it for my global novel class. it's a book by a Palestinian author with the premise of "What if, with no warning or explanation, every Palestinian within the borders of Israel and Palestine just disappeared?" It's largely about the reaction of the state of Israel and its citizens, told from the perspective of an Israeli journalist who is reading the personal diary of his Palestinian friend.
yknow how a lot of the time when an author is writing characters that they politically disagree with, they'll end up in the realm of caricature pretty quickly, either cartoonishly out of proportion or softened in a way that shows the writer doesn't actually understand them? this book avoids that entirely and Azem is just masterful at writing Zionist characters that are damning critiques of Zionism without falling into parody. i'm really looking forward to talking about this book in class tomorrow
Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 6 by Bisco Hatori, translated by Naomi Kokubo & Eric-Jon Rössel Waugh
and now for something completely different. just reading some good old fashioned shoujo for fun! my library has a very eclectic spread of the ohshc ebooks, so i'll have to wait to read the next volume, or skip significantly ahead (tbh. would be fine with this manga probably)
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What do you mean by participatory methods?
Participatory methods like community mapping, include a wide range of activities that local community members can engage with to play an active and influential part in the decisions that affect their lives.
People's voices deserve to be heard in decision making, and participatory methods typically involve either Popular Education and Participatory Learning and Action. To be effective, these methods must engage all community sectors.
Popular Education involves educators as facilitators in discussions. These discussions focus on high priority concerns and seek to uncover critical issues. "From passive to questioning consciousness, and from analytical to active critical consciousness." Successful involvement of ordinary citizens in understanding, defining, and taking action to change policies as well as their own empowered behaviors for improved well-being of all community members.
Participatory Leaning and Action is an umbrella term for a variety of similar participatory models and methods in community development. Examples may include participatory rural assessment, learning assessment methods, participatory research, incorporating the use of technology, community mapping, citizen juries, etc.,
The purpose is to draw on people's wisdom in ways that strengthen their capabilities and empower them to take local, self-determined, community-driven action; to use their own skills to monitor and evaluate the action they take; and to build locally owned institutions that can become self-sustaining.
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Week 3 : Digital Community - Tumblr
Is Blogging Still Relevant Today ?
In this week's post we will be diving into the blogging world. Blog previously known as 'weblog' is 'a frequently updated website, consisting of personal observations, excerpts from other sources, typically run by a single person. Blogs usually use hyperlinks to other sites ; an online journal or diary' (OED, 2003).
Social media platform 'Tumblr' is one of the most popular microblogging platforms used. Tumblr is ranked number 19 in social media sites in Australia. Tumblr has 3.7 million users, ahead of TikTok and reddit. I see Tumblr as a social media platform that allows people to express who they are without revealing to much about themselves., unlike other social media platforms Instagram and Facebook.
A safe space
Tumblr is not tied to the 'real name internet', providing a safe space for many marginalized groups. 'Tumblr served an important societal need by providing a safe space for trans people before, during and after transition, which was both a meaningful space for change and a supportive community' (Hamison, 2019).
Fun fact
Tumblr users don't need to follow each other to view their content, keeping their profiles hidden.
#Hashtags
Tumblr was one of the first social media platforms to use hashtags as a community building tool. Hashtags indicate topics or themes, they represent an important innovative in social media communication. The use of hashtags is powerful as it is participatory.
"The hashtag classifies messages, improves searchability and allows the organization to link messages to existing knowledge and action communities" (Saxton, 2015).
An extremely popular hashtag in the recent years is #bodypositive.
#bodypositive was developed from the body positivity movement across social media platforms, advocating acceptance for marginalized bodies and dismissal of the thin ideal. This hashtag provided exposure to such content that can be considered beneficial for a positive body image as it challenges and diversifies the concept of beauty (Cohen, 2019). This hashtag helps millions of people through identity development and can have positive effects, such as increased self-esteem and life satisfaction (Burrow & Rainone, 2017).
References
Chang, Y & Tang, L & Inagaki, Y 2014, ' What is Tumblr : A Statistical Overview and Consumption'. Research Gate, vol. 1, no. 16, pp. 1-10.
Choi, M & Cristol, D 2021, 'Digital citizenship with intersexuality lens: Towards participatory democracy driven digital citizenship education', Theory into Practice, pp. 1-11.
Hamison, O & Dame-Griff, A & Capello, E & Richter, Z 2021, 'Tumblr was a trans technology : the meaning importance, history and future of trans technologies', Taylor & Francis Online, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 1-17.
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Free Book Alert!
The onset of the Anthropocene challenges the very definition of education and its fundamental goals, says Sutoris. Researchers must look outside conventional models and practices of education for inspiration if education is to live up to its responsibilities at this critical time. For decades, environmental activist movements in some countries have wrestled with questions of responsibility and action in the face of environmental destruction; they inhabited the mental world of the Anthropocene before much of the rest of the world. Sutoris highlights an innovative research methodology of participatory observational filmmaking, describing how films made by children in the Indian and South African communities provide a window into the ways that young people make sense of the future of the Anthropocene. It is through their capacity to imagine the world differently, Sutoris argues, that education can reinvent itself.
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Strengthening Aspects of Our Selected Organization → Logan
References:
360°Kids. (2022, December. 5). 360°Kids. Retrieved December 5, 2022, from https://www.360kids.ca/
Stieglitz, A., & Levitan, J. (2021, Apr. 26). What is community-based participatory action research? [Podcast] (Episode 18). In The Action Research.
Asking Hard Questions as a Non-Profit Organization | Gordon Decker | TEDx Talks. (2018). YouTube. Retrieved October 20, 2022, from https://youtu.be/JcR6AP5fzzs.
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Our organization, 360° kids, is a non-profit program that is a useful resource for helping young adults who have experienced hardships in their lives which has made aspects of living difficult to navigate. This organization provides many services under housing, health and well-being, education and employment. The development of young adults is an important concept to understand, as they are the future of our environment and communities. In the TedTalk from Decker (2018), he discusses how “planning and evaluation” organize the organization. Non-profit organizations need to examine where they are in progress, where they want to go with that progress and what they will do to get there.
The 360° kids organization has several good aspects that highlight the needs of the struggling young adults in the community of York Region. This resource was created by people who were passionate about a cause and wanted to do something to make a difference. The goodness of people's actions can go a long way for someone in need of a helping hand. Strong planning and evaluation mean that for an organization to exist as a place of business in their community, they need to plan their objectives towards helping the people of the community and fulfilling their organization's goals. The 360° kids organization benefits from their planning and evaluating as they have helped over “3,900 youth” overcome crises by transitioning individuals to a state of safety and stability. Many of the youth involved in this community has the potential to do great things but do not come from good financial situations, parental support issues, etc. The benefits of planning and evaluating allow for pivots around challenges as this organization's stakeholders are changing the lives of young adults that are involved with these programs and services. This can be seen through the perspective of Community-Based Action Research (2021). Action research is evidence that can be found through the process of engaging with a community. Observing, thinking and acting on what an issue is but also solving a specific problem. 360° kids have collected and gathered research for what is needed in the community of struggling youth.
By providing these services, they have solved the issue of the lack of resources that individuals in this community had trouble accessing beforehand. Mental health, physical health, having a safe environment to call home, being able to proceed with education and speaking to professionals about how to direct your path positively have opened many doors for the individuals inside this community to give them another or a proper chance at obtaining their best selves.
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Book used for research: Maya Cultural Heritage, How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past by Patricia A. McAnany - contributions by Sarah M. Rowe
Situated at the intersection of cultural heritage and local community, this book enlarges our understanding of the Indigenous peoples of southern México and northern Central America who became detached from “the ancient Maya” through colonialism, government actions, and early twentieth-century anthropological and archaeological research. Through grass-roots heritage programs, local communities are reconnecting with a much valorized but distant past.
Maya Cultural Heritage explores how community programs conceived and implemented in a collaborative style are changing the relationship among, archaeological practice, the objects of archaeological study, and contemporary ethnolinguistic Mayan communities. Rather than simply describing Maya sites, McAnany concentrates on the dialogue nurtured by these participatory heritage programs, the new “heritage-scapes” they foster, and how the diverse Maya communities of today relate to those of the past.
#the royal diaries#royal diaries#lady of palenque#Yax Ahau Xoc#Maya History#Maya Peoples#Lady of Palenque: Flower of Bacal#book recommendations
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Thank you @literarymagpie for tagging me!! Not much has changed since the last tag game, so here are some unconventional, some boring answers!
Last Song: As I start writing this, the radio is playing Morcheeba - Otherwise (It's quite beautiful actually). Now that I'm finishing it, it's Eric Hutchinson - Bored to Death (This sounds fun)
Last Show: Does Trixie and Katya reacting to Heartstopper count?
Currently Watching: I've got my eyes on a lot of things, but I haven't actually sat down to watch them yet.
Currently Reading: The Fortress of Solitude is still bombarding me with imagery loaded language. Aside from that, a publication on Participatory Action Research and an exhibition catalogue.
Current Obsession: trying not to give up on my current gif set :)
Anyone who sees this and wants to do it, feel free to do so!!!
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Research Update and Intervention Progress
The research I have done on action research in curation led me down a very priceless path. A journal article published in 2020 by two women, one of colour, on Participatory Curation has become like my bible for this project. The article is titled: Participatory Curation: Who has the power to exhibit in a collaborative community based project?
Vinson, J, and Dutta, U. uMASS. May 2020.
This gave me insight into curation and action research when guided by feminist, community based, participatory methodologies aimed towards social change.
Key findings going forwards are:
Curation in and of itself is a critical intermediary action when interacting with marginalised groups!
Curation is the researcher's opportunity to establish reciprocal participatory creation of knowledge.
Participatory Curation- do not allow authority of institutions to dictate the exhibition
Participatory Curation as a university affiliated researcher.
What is being curated?
What is our role?
Who is the curator?
To what ends in terms of social change?
Action Research
Prompt(or intervention)for eliciting discussion/responses
Documentation of process
Evidence of events and conditions
In addition to this research I have also been continuing with my interventions. I have lost count of how many as some are as simple as sending out a group message to my group of Pakistani artists in london. The deadline for the artwork to be submitted is July 1st. However there is a meeting on Friday (today as you read this) for the group to coalesce and ask questions and also discuss the VOICES exhibition I have in mind. There will be recordings taken of our conversations when consent is given.
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Exploring the co-involvement of disabled adolescents in participatory action research; protocol for a critical interpretative synthesis
Background: Participatory action research (PAR) provides an opportunity for academic researchers and adolescents to co-conduct research within an area of shared interest. Reciprocal learning occurs as co-researchers acquire research skills and knowledge, and academic researchers gain understanding of the issue being examined, from the perspective of those with lived experience. All members of the research team have a shared responsibility for the research and decision-making processes. PAR has predominantly involved adults as co-researchers. However, in recent years more effort has been made to co-conduct research with adolescents. The aim of this review is to interrogate the practices of academic researchers employing a PAR approach when working along-side disabled adolescents.
Methods/design: A critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) will be conducted, allowing for a diverse range of evidence to be drawn from. A systematic search of nine databases, from 1990 onwards, will be conducted first. Reference checking will occur to elicit further relevant data. Following screening, further purposive sampling will be completed to facilitate the development of concepts and theory in line with the on-going analysis and synthesis of findings. Data analysis will involve interpretation of included papers in relation to the principles of PAR and a ‘best-practice’ framework will be developed. During analysis particular emphasis will be given to the identification of potential social barriers to the participation of disabled adolescents in PAR.
Discussion: PAR is widely employed but little is known about its use when working with disabled adolescents. This current CIS will critically question the current practices of academic researchers employing PAR when working along-side disabled adolescents and future research through the best practice framework we will develop.
Keywords
Critical Interpretative Synthesis, Participatory Action Research, Adolescents, Disabled, Neurodevelopment
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2024 MAD Design Fellows announced
New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/2024-mad-design-fellows-announced/
2024 MAD Design Fellows announced
Since its launch in 2022, the MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) has supported MIT graduate students with a fellowship, allowing recipients to pursue design research and projects while creating community. Pulling from different corners of design, they explore solutions in fields such as sustainability, health, architecture, urban planning, engineering, and social justice.
On May 1, MAD announced the 2024 cohort of Design Fellows at the MIT Museum.
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Meet the MIT MAD 2024 Design Fellows
Video: MIT Morningside Academy for Design
Sofia Chiappero, MCP student in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and MITdesignX affiliate: Chiappero is working around the intersection of community development and technology, aiming to address the challenges faced by underserved communities at risk of displacement in Latin America. Through a blend of social science and digital inclusion, she seeks to design a new approach to researching human interactions and replicating them in virtual settings, with the ultimate goal of preserving the identity of these communities and giving them visibility for resilient growth.
Clemence Couteau, MBA candidate in the MIT Sloan School of Management: Couteau is tackling the rise of postpartum depression among U.S. mothers by aiming to develop a digital solution empowering at-risk pregnant women to improve mental health outcomes. This involves a self-directed therapy chatbot in a mobile app, based on the “ROSE” protocol.
Mateo Fernandez, MArch student in the Department of Architecture: Fernandez explores how to depart from the current construction industry, designing alternatives such as growing buildings with biomaterials, and deploying advanced 3D printing technologies for building.
Charlotte Folinus, PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering: Folinus creates new methods for designing soft robots, using these tools to design soft robots for gentle interactions, uncertain environments, and long mechanical lifetimes. “I am really excited to be surrounded by people who can do things I cannot. That’s when I’m the best version of myself. I think that’s the community I’ll find here,” she says.
Alexander Htet Kyaw, master’s student in the Department of Architecture and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and MITdesignX affiliate: Htet Kyaw’s current research utilizes robotic assembly, multimodal interaction, and generative AI to challenge conventional manufacturing and fabrication practices. He is working on an AI-driven workflow that translates design intent into tangible objects through robotic assembly.
Dení López PhD candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning: As a Design Fellow, López uses design research to evaluate and extend the scope of Bicheeche Diidxa’, a long-standing Participatory Action Research initiative for disaster resilience focused on five Zapotec communities along the Los Perros River in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Caitlin Morris, PhD candidate in media arts and sciences: Morris’s research explores the role of multisensory influences on cognition and learning, and seeks to find and build the bridges between digital and computational interfaces and hands-on, community-centered learning and teaching practices.
Maxine Perroni-Scharf, PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Perroni-Scharf is currently working on developing techniques that enable the discovery and design of extremal metamaterials — 3D printed materials that exhibit extreme properties arising not from their chemical composition, but rather from their structure. These can be applied to a variety of tasks, from battery design to accessibility.
Lyle Regenwetter, PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering: Regenwetter develops methods to incorporate design requirements, such as safety constraints and performance objectives, into the training process of generative AI models.
Zane Schemmer, PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Schemmer’s research aims to minimize the carbon footprint of the built environment by designing efficient structures that consider the availability of local materials.
#2022#2024#3d#3D printing#Accessibility#ai#AI models#America#app#approach#architecture#Artificial Intelligence#Arts#Awards#honors and fellowships#battery#Building#buildings#carbon#carbon footprint#challenge#chatbot#chemical#Civil and environmental engineering#cognition#Community#Composition#computer#Computer Science#construction
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Qualitative Action Research Fieldwork Program- Cohort 2.0
Event ReportReetwika Mallick
The Generation Alpha Data Centre, at IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, conducted Public Policy Qualitative Participatory Action Research Fieldwork Fellowship- Cohort 2.0. An Online National Winter School Program. A Four-Month Online Immersive Qualitative Participatory Action Research Fieldwork Certificate Fellowship from December 2023 – April…
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