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The digital transformation challenges old ways of working and demands new methods and new solidarities locally and globally. Participatory Action Research (PAR) directly engages local priorities and perspectives through co-producing research in partnership among researchers, community leaders, and others with insider knowledge and lives experience; it aims at action and reflection to achieve social change.
What happens when PAR is practiced both locally and transnationally, across borders, at multiple scales? Since 2021, the Digital Health and Rights Project consortium has worked collaboratively with early career researchers at universities, civil society organisations and community-led networks in Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Vietnam. The project has engaged over 600 young people in all five countries, including 48 community advisors who are young leaders of networks of people living with HIV, key populations, and/or digital rights advocates.
In May, the project concludes its current phase with prolific outputs: published research, multi-lingual educational resources and policy impact at global and national levels. However, the model of transnational participatory action research is itself an output. In this panel, researchers from each country and the project advisory council reflect on what worked, the challenges, and lessons for other transnational participatory action research projects in the future.
Speakers:
- Paul Hunt, University of Essex; Digital Rights Advisory Council
- Sara (Meg) Davis, University of Warwick and Global Governance Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute
Panel Discussion:
- Bernard Koomson, University of Warwick, UK
- Allan Maleche, KELIN, Kenya
- Alberta Nadutey, Ghana Community Advisory Team (G-CAT), Ghana
- Trang Pham, Vietnam Network of People Living with HIV (VNP+)
Moderator:
- Catalina Gonzalez Uribe, Universidad de los Andes
This event is co-sponsored by the Global Governance Centre, the Digital Health and Rights Project, and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), University of Warwick.