Participatory Action Research (PAR): Participatory Theatre and Walking Methods' Potential for Co-producing knowledge
Lead Research Organisation:
The Open University
Department Name: Faculty of Arts and Social Sci (FASS)
Abstract
This project on research methods addresses the UK social science community's need to gain a better understanding of how participatory action research approaches engage marginalised groups in research as co-producers of knowledge. It combines walking methods and participatory theatre to create a space for exploring, sharing and documenting processes of belonging and place making that are crucial to understanding and enacting citizenship. Participatory Action Research, based on the principles of inclusion, valuing all voices and action-oriented interventions allows for engaging marginalized groups into research as a citizenship practice. By doing so the project meets the aims of NCRM's methodological initiative and the interest shown by social science researchers to address the methodological problems associated with researching hard to reach communities. It also responds to the ESRC's thematic priorities 'Influencing Behaviour' and 'A Vibrant and Fair Society'.
The project is original by creating a model for bringing together practitioners and marginalized groups to engage with each other through creative methods and innovates by developing a toolkit for training social researchers in walking stories and theatre. The project develops methods and methodological knowledge of participatory theatre and walking methods through three well integrated strands of (i) participatory methods with migrant parents' and young people on intergenerational communication (ii) co-production through participatory methods with families with no recourse to public funds in conversation with policy-practice; and, (iii) building upon this, developing training tools for social science researchers using participatory theatre and walking methods with marginalised communities. This participatory arts based research will be undertaken in collaboration and consultation with a theatre practitioner, Counterpoints Arts and the Runnymede Trust. Three core strands combine to achieve these aims:
Strand 1: Generating Research Data - explores the potential of participatory methods for generating new methodological datasets and insights into migrant families' intergenerational relations. It combines 3 walking story sessions, to produce visual data which will initiate the theatre scenes in the following 8 participatory theatre sessions with two groups: migrant parents and young people. A day-long Learning Lab in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts helps to produce digital resources on the value of these methods for research with marginalized groups.
Strand 2: Co-production Engagement with Policy-Practice - focuses on potential and pitfalls of the participatory theatre and walking stories methods for engaging policy-practice and marginalized participants in the co-production of knowledge around the specific policy issue of NRPF, a policy restricting migrants' participation in society. Families affected by NRPF will participate in the walking stories and participatory theatre, particularly the technique of 'legislative theatre'. In collaboration with Runnymede Trust we will produce a multimedia briefing pack on the value of these methods to policy-practice.
Strand 3: Training for Researchers in Walking Stories and Participatory Theatre - The resources and materials developed in strand 1 and 2 will be used to develop a toolkit and courses for training social science researchers, benefitting the wider social science research community. Training and capacity building is integral to the project. The outputs will leave a legacy beyond the duration of the project. In addition, to delivering training through the project strands above, the team will contribute training workshops/sessions through NCRM's programme of events and the Research Methods Festival, the project website will give access to multimedia training and briefing materials for social researchers and practitioners and policy makers working with marginalized groups.
The project is original by creating a model for bringing together practitioners and marginalized groups to engage with each other through creative methods and innovates by developing a toolkit for training social researchers in walking stories and theatre. The project develops methods and methodological knowledge of participatory theatre and walking methods through three well integrated strands of (i) participatory methods with migrant parents' and young people on intergenerational communication (ii) co-production through participatory methods with families with no recourse to public funds in conversation with policy-practice; and, (iii) building upon this, developing training tools for social science researchers using participatory theatre and walking methods with marginalised communities. This participatory arts based research will be undertaken in collaboration and consultation with a theatre practitioner, Counterpoints Arts and the Runnymede Trust. Three core strands combine to achieve these aims:
Strand 1: Generating Research Data - explores the potential of participatory methods for generating new methodological datasets and insights into migrant families' intergenerational relations. It combines 3 walking story sessions, to produce visual data which will initiate the theatre scenes in the following 8 participatory theatre sessions with two groups: migrant parents and young people. A day-long Learning Lab in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts helps to produce digital resources on the value of these methods for research with marginalized groups.
Strand 2: Co-production Engagement with Policy-Practice - focuses on potential and pitfalls of the participatory theatre and walking stories methods for engaging policy-practice and marginalized participants in the co-production of knowledge around the specific policy issue of NRPF, a policy restricting migrants' participation in society. Families affected by NRPF will participate in the walking stories and participatory theatre, particularly the technique of 'legislative theatre'. In collaboration with Runnymede Trust we will produce a multimedia briefing pack on the value of these methods to policy-practice.
Strand 3: Training for Researchers in Walking Stories and Participatory Theatre - The resources and materials developed in strand 1 and 2 will be used to develop a toolkit and courses for training social science researchers, benefitting the wider social science research community. Training and capacity building is integral to the project. The outputs will leave a legacy beyond the duration of the project. In addition, to delivering training through the project strands above, the team will contribute training workshops/sessions through NCRM's programme of events and the Research Methods Festival, the project website will give access to multimedia training and briefing materials for social researchers and practitioners and policy makers working with marginalized groups.
Planned Impact
The project addresses NCRM's remit of enhancing the UK social science community's methods' capacity and responds to the ESRC priorities of Influencing behaviour and informing interventions and A vibrant and fair society. The project will have a lasting legacy on the social science community interested in using participatory methods to engage with hard to reach communities because we will produce a model and research tools, which can be replicated by others. Building on our extensive impact generation (eg. Erel's Chairing of Milton Keynes Council's Ethnic Diversity Commission; O'Neill's co-chairing of the Racial Equality Forum and Race, Crime and Justice regional network in the North East, Reynolds with Age UK and Lewisham Council) and delivering training (e.g. Erel: postgrad methods workshops at OU, International Women's University, Bergen Uni PhD schools, training to Syrian and Lebanese NGOs on participatory methods; O'Neill: Methods training at Durham Uni; Social Research Association; Lodz University; Justus-Liebig-University Giessen; Reynolds: postgrad training at Southbank University).
i) Promote and popularise participatory theatre and walking methods as integral research methods within the UK social science research community
The research will have impact through training and capacity building, developing and delivering bespoke training courses in participatory theatre and walking methods to social science researchers. Our multimedia toolkit for researchers for participatory theatre and walking methods will be disseminated through the free online learning portal 'Open Learn', our project website, Counterpoints Arts and NCRM to a range of researchers. To encourage take up from professionals in social care, education, health we collaborate with Counter Point Arts, whose expertise in participatory practice and digital representation enables us to reach a wide range of audiences (see e.g. http://goo.gl/BfSBEY; http://goo.gl/6abHIA). The PI is Director of the Research Programme 'Migration and Belonging' at the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, OU with a vibrant Methods culture including international dialogues on creative, visual and participatory methods (http://www.open.ac.uk/ccig/research/methods-in-motion). Networks in the BSA (family studies, race and ethnicities, visual methods groups), the International Sociological Association RC05; ESA RN 3 (chaired by O'Neill) and our advisory board of methods experts, will help disseminate research outputs.
ii) Demonstrate the value of participatory methods as integral methodological and epistemological approaches in co-producing knowledge to address specific policy issues
The project addresses policy-makers to show that participatory methods are effective in engaging with hard to reach groups. A key area of impact will be challenging epistemological 'habits' to make it more 'thinkable' that knowledge co-produced by marginalised communities can be widely exploited by policy. In collaboration with Runnymede Trust, a leading UK policy agency in race equality, we will produce a digital resource and toolkit and a briefing report for highlighting the value of participatory methods for policy intervention. Runnymede dissemination networks include key policy-makers (eg Home Office, Ministry of Justice) think-tanks (e.g. EHRC, TUC).
iii) Data generation and new knowledge on migrant families and communities
The research on the substantive issue of migrant families' citizenship has the potential to develop significant impacts in policies on integration and citizenship by promoting participatory methods of walking methods and participatory theatre. This contributes to academic research, art-based practice and social policy by encouraging the connection between culture, citizenship and creative performance; importantly co-produced knowledge about policy issues experienced by migrant families such as NRPF will feed into policy debates and practic
i) Promote and popularise participatory theatre and walking methods as integral research methods within the UK social science research community
The research will have impact through training and capacity building, developing and delivering bespoke training courses in participatory theatre and walking methods to social science researchers. Our multimedia toolkit for researchers for participatory theatre and walking methods will be disseminated through the free online learning portal 'Open Learn', our project website, Counterpoints Arts and NCRM to a range of researchers. To encourage take up from professionals in social care, education, health we collaborate with Counter Point Arts, whose expertise in participatory practice and digital representation enables us to reach a wide range of audiences (see e.g. http://goo.gl/BfSBEY; http://goo.gl/6abHIA). The PI is Director of the Research Programme 'Migration and Belonging' at the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, OU with a vibrant Methods culture including international dialogues on creative, visual and participatory methods (http://www.open.ac.uk/ccig/research/methods-in-motion). Networks in the BSA (family studies, race and ethnicities, visual methods groups), the International Sociological Association RC05; ESA RN 3 (chaired by O'Neill) and our advisory board of methods experts, will help disseminate research outputs.
ii) Demonstrate the value of participatory methods as integral methodological and epistemological approaches in co-producing knowledge to address specific policy issues
The project addresses policy-makers to show that participatory methods are effective in engaging with hard to reach groups. A key area of impact will be challenging epistemological 'habits' to make it more 'thinkable' that knowledge co-produced by marginalised communities can be widely exploited by policy. In collaboration with Runnymede Trust, a leading UK policy agency in race equality, we will produce a digital resource and toolkit and a briefing report for highlighting the value of participatory methods for policy intervention. Runnymede dissemination networks include key policy-makers (eg Home Office, Ministry of Justice) think-tanks (e.g. EHRC, TUC).
iii) Data generation and new knowledge on migrant families and communities
The research on the substantive issue of migrant families' citizenship has the potential to develop significant impacts in policies on integration and citizenship by promoting participatory methods of walking methods and participatory theatre. This contributes to academic research, art-based practice and social policy by encouraging the connection between culture, citizenship and creative performance; importantly co-produced knowledge about policy issues experienced by migrant families such as NRPF will feed into policy debates and practic
Publications
Erel U
(2018)
Saving and reproducing the nation: Struggles around right-wing politics of social reproduction, gender and race in austerity Europe
in Women's Studies International Forum
Erel U
(2022)
Transformative Research and Higher Education
Erel U
(2017)
Migrant mothers' creative interventions into racialized citizenship
in Ethnic and Racial Studies
Erel U
(2017)
Introduction: migrant mothers challenging racialized citizenship
in Ethnic and Racial Studies
Erel U
(2017)
Participatory theatre for transformative social research
in Qualitative Research
Erel, Umut
(2017)
Crisis upon Crisis, Migrant Families living under No Recourse to Public Funds
in Discover Society
Erel, Umut
(2017)
Video
Kaptani E
(2020)
Methodological Innovation in Research: Participatory Theater with Migrant Families on Conflicts and Transformations over the Politics of Belonging
in Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
O'Neill M
(2019)
Borders, risk and belonging: Challenges for arts-based research in understanding the lives of women asylum seekers and migrants 'at the borders of humanity'
in Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture
Reynolds T
(2018)
Migrant mothers: performing kin work and belonging across private and public boundaries
in Families, Relationships and Societies
Title | Me? I Just put British! |
Description | Me? I Just put British! A performance based on Black women's experiences of belonging and home making. After contributing to British society for many years, like their families before them, their postcolonial links and rights to citizenship have been offensively disregarded.They are categorized as migrants and pushed to the margins of this society. In these hostile times for immigration and in the middle of the Windrush debate, six women are rising from the margins to perform the question: Can an Immigrant, a Woman, a Black Body ever be a full citizen? Six women, after taking part in a research project, decided to improvise and devise with live music and spoken word to bring alive their experiences of citizenship. Audience interventions and a thought-provoking discussion with researchers, communities and artists will follow. |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Impact | The performance led to lively debate and exchange with the audience on issues of representation and race, as well as citizenship and migration. Audiences reported that it changed their views on migration and the hostile environment. It was attended by 130 participants. |
URL | https://richmix.org.uk/events/me-i-just-put-british/ |
Title | Performance 'My Stories' |
Description | Performance of Migrant MOthers' Stories at the Connecting Communities Conference, 10 November 2017 |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | This performance inspired conference participants to use participatory theatre methods for their own research |
URL | https://www.gre.ac.uk/ach/events/connectingcommunities |
Title | What does Participation Mean Across the Arts and Research? Tate Exchange |
Description | This was a participatory theatre workshop inviting participants to get involved in practicing and reflecting on experiences of belonging, participation and exclusion in a multi-ethnic context. How do we address belonging and participation across the arts and research? How do arts-based methods support participation and collaboration? To understand the benefits of cross-sector collaboration of the arts and research for participation, the workshop begins with the creation of physical images of participation and belonging. This will be facilitated by Erene Kaptani, Participatory Artist of the 'Participatory Arts and Social Action Research' (PASAR) project. Members of the research group will also reflect on their experiences of participation during workshop discussion. We will then explore how arts-based participatory methods can help understand questions of belonging through a conversation with the PASAR project team: Umut Erel (Open University), Maggie O'Neill (University of York), Erene Kaptani and Tracey Reynolds (University of Greenwich). Theatre Director and Lecturer Karen Tomlin will facilitate reflections on what makes a successful collaboration and the issues that may arise for artists located within the arts and the academy. |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | Exchanges with theatre practitioners, Tate Exchange audiences, and academics on issues of representation, participation, race and migration. |
URL | https://whoareweproject.com/programme-2018/tuesday |
Title | a short theatre play on the effects of the No Recourse to Public Funding Policy on migrant families |
Description | The short theatre play on the effects of the No Recourse to Public Funding Policy on migrant families was shown to practitioners and policy makers, including in law, migration, a Member of the House of Lords, applied theatre, education. This raised awareness of the issues affecting migrant families and also on the uses of participatory creative methods for research, policy and practice engagement with marginalized groups. |
Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | awareness raised among third sector practitioners in migration, education, families, race and poverty about the usefulness of participatory theatre and walking methods |
URL | http://www.open.ac.uk/ccig/events/from-the-margins-to-centre-stage-migrant-families-challenging-the-... |
Description | The research has found that participatory theatre and walking methods are very useful for engaging migrant families in knowledge production. The embodied methods allow migrant families to go beyond linguistic limitations and express their sense of belonging, as well as enact and enhance their social participation. These methods are particularly useful in generating rich data which can be used for research and social action. The methods also allow for community building and enabling communication across differences. The project has found that the methods are particularly useful to facilitating intergenerational dialogues. The project has also found that these methods allow particularly marginalized groups who are affected by poverty, racism and social exclusion to build collective knowledges and successfully engage with practitioners and policy makers. The project has found that these methods are highly effective in communicating complex and controversial policy issues such as the 'No Recourse to Public Funding' Policy to audiences. The methods are particularly effective in engaging professionals, policy makers and practitioners in dialogue with those affected by their work and policy. Overall, the project has found that there is interest in using participatory theatre and walking methods for understanding, as well as engaging with social issues. The project has found that these methods are highly effective in engaging with marginalised migrants more widely. In a follow on HEIF funded project, the project has shown the short theatre scenes to an audience of 100 migrants at three separate community centres in London. This has elicited lively debate on issues of domestic violence, work place racism and housing among migrant communities. The follow on project on migrants' civic engagement has also proven that these methods can be usefully employed online and for community engagement. |
Exploitation Route | The findings are likely to encourage social researchers in academia and in applied contexts to make use of participatory theatre and walking methods for generating data, engaging with marginalized groups and facilitating exchanges between practitioners, policy makers and marginalized groups. We had requests from migrant support organisations to train their staff and volunteers in theatre and walking methods. We are responding to these requests by preparing an AHRC follow on funding bid to train NGO workers in participatory creative methods. We also had feedback from theatre practitioners, such as Bezna Theatre and Illegalised Theatre, who have used some of the insights from our research to develop their own theatre plays. The arts community has benefitted from the project findings by recognising the value of collaborations with academia and migrant support organizations. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
URL | http://fass.open.ac.uk/research/projects/pasar |
Description | We have been asked to present to non-academic audiences, in particular those working with migrants and women to showcase our work with participatory theatre and walking methods. This has raised awareness of these methods. We have held several training events: Our first training (April 2016) on participatory theatre for social action and research has been attended by 20 participants from the UK and Europe. Our second training event in October 2017 was attended by 12 academics, ranging from PhD students to established academics, it focused on the combination of both theatre and walking methods, a third one-day event was held in November 2017, where Sanjoy Ganguly trained researchers in the use of participatory theatre. Participants have all gained new skills which they are going to use in their academic, creative and community work. An event at the House of Commons was held where the findings of working with migrant families with no recourse to public funds where showcased and led to policy debates. This was accompanied by the launch of a policy briefing on the uses of participatory action research methods for policy and applied research. In a follow on impact project, we showed the work to 3 migrant and family support organisations, including 100 participants, of whom some were councillors, and practitioners. The short play was very well received, leading to new learning and understanding among participants on the effects of the No Recourse to Public Funds policy. At the performance event 'Me? I just put British' at Richmix theatre, London, 130 people attended the theatre play and the subsequent forum theatre workshop and debate. Feedback was that this was a very powerful way of generating new understandings and changing views on migration. We have written a report not he detrimental effects of the NRPF policy and are in conversation with London's Deputy Mayor on social cohesion about a foreword to the report. As a consequence of the project migrant support organisations approached us to ask if they could participate in the project. While this was not possible, we applied and undertook a follow on project which trained migrant community activists in using participatory theatre methods themselves (AHRC funded CIVICMIG project). |
First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Other |
Impact Types | Cultural,Societal |
Description | House of Commons Event 'From Margin to Centre Stage: Migrant Families living under No Recourse to Public Funds' |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | http://fass.open.ac.uk/events/margins-centre-stage-migrant-families-challenging-effects-no-recourse-... |
Description | Knowledge Exchange Symposium on effects of No Recourse to Public Funds Policy |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | NRPF Policy Day |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | The policy day highlighted the issues faced by migrant families affected by the No Recourse to Public Funds Policy. Policy makers and practitioners from migration, families and arts were present. |
URL | http://fass.open.ac.uk/research/projects/pasar/videos/policy-day |
Description | Policy briefing on Participatory Action Research |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
URL | https://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/PASARandRunnymedeBriefing.pdf |
Description | Training of Academics in participatory theatre and walking methods for research |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Participants ranged from PhD students to established researchers, they reported that they had gained important insights into the uses of participatory theatre and walking methods and were considering or planning to use these in their work. |
URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=7640 |
Description | ESRC/ IAA |
Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2018 |
End | 12/2018 |
Description | HEIF project 'Academic and Third Sector Knowledge Exchange on No Recourse to Public Funds Policy' |
Amount | £11,800 (GBP) |
Organisation | Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2018 |
End | 07/2018 |
Description | Participatory Artsbased Methods For Civic Engagement In Migrant Support Organizations |
Amount | £79,293 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AH/T004045/1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2020 |
End | 10/2022 |
Title | Participatory Theatre and Walking Methods Training Workshop, London |
Description | This workshop addressed academic researchers in social sciences to introduce them to the use of participatory theatre and walking methods for social research. This took place under the auspices of National Centre for Research Methods. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Participants reported they would now consider using elements of these methods for their own research projects at PhD and post doctoral levels. |
URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/documents/TrainingandEventsallOctober_2017.pdf |
Title | Training in Walking Methods and Theatre Methods for Social Science Students, University of York, Maggie O'Neill and Erene Kaptani |
Description | Based on the PASAR model, students were trained in using participatory creative methods for social research |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Several PhD students and researchers have contacted the team to tell us they are using these methods for their research projects. |
Title | Training in participatory theatre methods |
Description | A four-day workshop with 20 participants from the UK and internationally (Sweden) was held for researchers, academics and practitioners working with migrants and families. The workshop aimed at familiarising participants with participatory theatre methods for research, broadly conceived. The workshop familiarised participants with techniques from Playback, Forum and physical theatre and enabled reflection on their uses for research for applied as well as academic work. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Participants reported having deepened their knowledge of theatre methods, group work and their uses for research in the context of applied work with refugees and migrants, families and also about participatory methods more widely. Some of them reported that they would now use some of these methods in their work. |
Title | online training for social researchers on participatory theatre for research |
Description | This online training provides an introduction to Forum Theatre methods for research. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This has not been published yet. |
Title | online training for social researchers on walking methods for research |
Description | This is an introduction to the uses of arts based walking methods for research. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | yet to be published |
Description | Youth Matters Project, University of Greenwich |
Organisation | University of Greenwich |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Drawing on methods inspired in PASAR, Tracey Reynolds, CI, undertook further research on 'Youth Matters: Using Community Spaces and Creative Agendas in shaping mobilities and identities of BME youths' (September 2015 to September 2016, funded by Greenwich Bright/Univ of Greenwich), using forum theatre and creative mapping techniques. This led to an end of project conference: 'Youth Matters: Community spaces and creative agendas, 21th Sept 2016, University of Greenwich. |
Collaborator Contribution | The Youth Matters project has raised awareness of the usefulness of participatory theatre methods for social sciences, in particular with respect to research on Diasporic young people. |
Impact | Some aspects of this project have been referred to in the following refereed journal article "Mapping the role of 'transnational family habitus' in the lives of young people and children", Reynolds and Zontini, 'Global Networks', forthcoming 2017 |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | 'Black British Feminism', talk by Prof. Tracey Reynolds |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | 'Black British Feminism', The event is hosted by Sara Ahmed and Sarah Franklin under the annual series 'Feminist Classics Revisited'. The half day symposium will be held on 8th December 2017, 2-6pm, McCrum lecture theatre, Bene't St, Cambridge University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | 3. TRUST AND MISTRUST: ETHICS IN PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH, DESIGN, DEMOCRACY AND ACTION PAR |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | TRUST AND MISTRUST: ETHICS IN PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH, DESIGN, DEMOCRACY AND ACTION, Maggie O'Neill's talk at the PAR and Trust conference -the TrustMap project, Durham |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Covid Conversations |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An interview for a website on how to use participatory theatre methods for engaging with marginalised migrant communities, especially during Covid lockdown periods. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://cov19chronicles.com/gallery/art-work/covid-conversation-professor-umut-erel-from-the-open-un... |
Description | ENACTING CITIZENSHIP ACROSS GENERATIONS, WITH DR UMUT EREL AND ERENE KAPTANI & PERFORMANCE BY DUBMORPHOLOGY |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The event was a conversation between the PI and the researcher about arts, participation and citizenship, addressed primarily to an arts audience, this was combined with a sound performance by dub morphology. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.artscatalyst.org/enacting-citizenship-across-generations-dr-umut-erel-and-erene-kaptani-... |
Description | ESA conference paper |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Conference presentation which generated keen interest int he methods. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Erene Kaptani discussed aspects of the project at the Training for practitioners on NRPF 26 September 2016 Project 17, Venue Resource for London, Holloway N7. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Erene Kaptani discussed aspects of the project at the Training for practitioners on NRPF 26 September 2016 Project 17, Venue Resource for London, Holloway N7. She also networked with advisers, social workers, solicitors about the research and future events. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Erene Kaptani, Open lecture organised by the Theatre Academy of the University of Arts, Helsinki and the Finnish Society of Social Pedagogy, |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Open lecture organised by the Theatre Academy of the University of Arts, Helsinki and the Finnish Society of Social Pedagogy, Attended by 20 people |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | From the margins to centre stage: Migrant families challenging the effects of the No Recourse to Public Funding Policy - Workshop for Policy and Practice |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | A workshop in collaboration with Runnymede Trust where Politicians, Lawyers, Social Workers, Migration Practitioners, Arts Practitioners engaged with how 'No Recourse to Public Funds' Policy is affecting migrant mothers. This included talks by Baroness Lister, Colin Yeo, Runnymede Trust, Migrants Rights Network, Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The research team gave presentations about the research and the research participants showcased a short theatre play and then engaged in roundtable discussions with participants. As a consequence of this workshop the research team was invited to present its work to the House of Commons All Party Parliamentary Group on Migration, planned for 6 June 2017. This had to be postponed to autumn when the General Election was called. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.runnymedetrust.org/news/643/273/From-Margins-to-Centre-Stage.html |
Description | In the Public Interest - Current Dilemmas, 'Creating public spaces in Social Policy' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | A talk at University of Greenwich sociology seminar series by Prof. Tracey Reynolds |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Just put British |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A performance event at Richmix theatre, London, attended by 130 people, where the research participants performed a short play 'Just put British' about the effects of the No Recourse to Public Funds Policy. There was a forum theatre activity and public debate after the performance. feedback was that the event was very powerful and changed participants' views on migration and the effects of the policy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://richmix.org.uk/events/me-i-just-put-british/ |
Description | Kaptani, E. "Participatory Arts in Research and Practice: Facilitating Convivial Practices with Migrants to Create Democratic Processes of Social Integration". |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Erene Kaptani delivered a Keynote at the conference of Social Pedagogy in Kemi, Finland, Thu, Mar 22nd, 2018 at 11:00 - 12:30 attended by 600 people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Kaptani, E. : Jana Sanskriti centre for Theatre of the Oppressed, Calcutta, India. Forum Theatre performance |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Kaptani, E. : Jana Sanskriti centre for Theatre of the Oppressed, Calcutta, India. Forum Theatre performance attended by 1000 people and two day participatory practice workshops conducted for actors of the organisation and international artists attended by 20 people. 8th to24th December 2018. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | LSE Impact blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A blog post on the LSE impact blog on the uses of participatory theatre methods and citizenship, the blog post is widely read and addresses questions of research impact and engagement. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/06/15/modelling-engagement-using-theatre-based-wo... |
Description | Learning Lab, Tate Britain, 19-20 July 2017 Counterpoints Arts and Research Team |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | In collaboration with Counterpoints Arts, the project team organized a two-day dialogue with visual and performance artists Natasha Davis and Jane Arnfield, as well as other interested practitioners on how to conceptualise issues of participation in research and in arts practice at the Tate Britain. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://counterpointsarts.org.uk/event/learning-lab-migrant-mothers-and-daughters-participation-arts-... |
Description | Lecture for the students of social sciences in the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio campus |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Lecture for the students of social sciences in the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio campus, Attended by 60 people |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | London's future - speaking up for refugees and diversity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Research Fellow commissioned to do a session of participatory theatre on diversity, refugees and education. This invitation was an outcome of our four day training workshop in 2016. One of the training participants invited the research fellow to undertake this participatory theatre for engagement. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/londons-future-speaking-up-for-refugees-and-diversity-tickets-3265097... |
Description | MMP blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A blog on the experiences of families affected by No Recourse to Public funds on the Migration Museum Project website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.migrationmuseum.org/tag/no-recourse-to-public-funding/ |
Description | Maggie O'Neill International Women's Day Talk, University College Cork |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | International Women's Day Talk Borders, Risk and belonging: understanding gender, race and intersectioanlity in the lives of women asylum seekers and migrants. Prof. O'Neill used PASAR project as an example to argue for the benefits of using participatory creative methods, epistemologically and methodologically to better understand women's lives, build local capacity in seeking policy change and know and understand intersectionality in women's lives (as a foundation feminist concept) through performative, mobile and dialogic methods. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Maggie O'Neill Keynote: Arts, Research and Activism [Keynote], centre for Applied Human Rights, York, January 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Maggie O'Neill Keynote: Arts, Research and Activism [Keynote], centre for Applied Human Rights, York, January 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Maggie O'Neill discussed aspects of the project at Durham Refugee Project Seminar Series launch, St Cuthbert's Society, Durham, December 2016. Arts Based Biographical Methods: women, wellbeing and community. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Maggie O'Neill discussed aspects of the project at Durham Refugee Project Seminar Series launch, St Cuthbert's Society, Durham, December 2016. Arts Based Biographical Methods: women, wellbeing and community. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Maggie O'Neill discussed aspects of the projects at International Women's Day Conference 2016, Durham Uni, July 2016. Resounding Voices: Women, Silence, and the Production of Knowledge - Women, Walking, Arts Based Research and he production of knowledge |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Maggie O'Neill discussed aspects of the projects at International Women's Day Conference 2016, Durham Uni, July 2016. Resounding Voices: Women, Silence, and the Production of Knowledge - Women, Walking, Arts Based Research and he production of knowledge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Maggie O'Neill talk Understanding Solidarity Amid Refugee Crises, University of Leeds 22nd September 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Maggie O'Neill talk Understanding Solidarity Amid Refugee Crises, University of Leeds 22nd September 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Maggie O'Neill talk at Birkbeck invited seminar, June 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Maggie O'Neill talk at Birkbeck invited seminar, June 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Maggie O'Neill- a talk on PASAR to the UCC Sociology postgraduate summer school at Blackrock Castle. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | May 13th 2018 - a talk on PASAR to the UCC Sociology postgraduate summer school at Blackrock Castle. Circa 50 participants. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Migrant Mothers' Citizenship Talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | talk to the motherhood and migration conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.facebook.com/motherhoodandmigration/ |
Description | Migrant Mothers' Citizenship: Participatory Theatre |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A talk as part of an international workshop at the international arts exhibition on Citizenship at Kunsthal, Antwerp, Belgium. It was attended by 30 people, ranging from arts practitioners to third sector and general public. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://extracitykunsthal.org/en/events/discussion-ii-migrant-mothers-creative-interventions-into-cit... |
Description | Migrants Matter Workshop Praxis and Towerhamlets Council |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Our partner organization Praxis organized a day workshop in partnership with Towerhamlets Council about policy issues affecting migrants. The research team made a short presentation about the research and study participants presented a short theatre play to an audience made up of council, and third sector practitioners. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | PAR and the Arts |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Maggie O'Neill's talk at PAR and the Arts event, Durham Cenre for Social Justice and Community Research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Participatory Artsbased Methods |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A talk to the research department of the Home Office on Participatory Artsbased Research Methods |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Participatory Theatre with Migrants as Civic Engagement |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | A panel on participatory arts based methods, including research participants, at the National Centre for Research Methods conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/RMeF2021/Research_Methods_e-Festival_2021_Call_for_Contributions.pdf |
Description | Podcast on Participatory Theatre Methods |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A podcast explaining the uses and usefulness of participatory theatre and walking methods for research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/view.php/creative-methods |
Description | Public Talk, Migrants at the Centre: Beyond Exclusion and Marginality |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This public talk discussed how participatory arts methods in research can centre the experiences and views of migrant families. It engaged with a general audience attracted by the Migration Museum Project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.migrationmuseum.org/event/migrants-at-the-centre-looking-beyond-marginalisation-and-exclu... |
Description | Schools Workshop, Migration Museum Project, July 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Erel presented the work of the research team to an audience of school students (year 10) from a school in Sussex who were visiting the Migration Museum Project and attended a workshop on understanding migration through the arts. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Talk Maggie O'Neill at Crisis at the Borders Conference, September 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk Maggie O'Neill at Crisis at the Borders Conference, September 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Talk at Evelyne Oldfield Trust Research for Action Conference, to NGO volunteers and workers on how to use participatory theatre as a research and dissemination method |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This was a presentation at 'Research for Action' conference for different refugee community organizations in the London area who had taken part in the course of the same name of Evelyne Oldfield Trust. The talk showcased how participatory theatre methods can contribute to research by, for and about refugee communities as it is a participatory method which also acts to empower participants. There was a lively discussion and interest in the methods after the talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://evelynoldfield.co.uk/research-for-action-and-influence-conference/ |
Description | Talk at SOAS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk about the research project, with lively discussion about the methods. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Talk: Migrant Mothers' Citizenship |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | a talk in a seminar series on performative mothering |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://storytelling.research.southwales.ac.uk/news-and-events/events-2019/engage-performance-and-ma... |
Description | Woman's Hour Programme on Transnational Mothering |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An interview on BBC Radio4 Woman's Hour about Transnational Mothering and the experiences of migration and family. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07b9qvn |
Description | participatory theatre with migrant families on and offline |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | a talk at the Perform, Play, Learn, Grow conference aimed at professionals working in the arts and working with migrants. The conference had international attendees. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://pplg.org |