From Cocoon to Butterfly: Use of Cooperative Inquiry Groups to Empower Practitioners in Healthcare Contexts
Blogpost by Sarah Donnelly and Sarah Morton Consider the analogy of a butterfly inside its cocoon. When we see a butterfly struggling, we are tempted to peel the cocoon off to free the butterfly so that it can fly away. But what happens to a butterfly when it does not have the necessary struggle to free […]
Read More...Co-production: healthcare and participative action research
Are you a Physician who is learning to lead transformational or systemic change? Are you a hospital administrator who needs to create enduring partnerships with stakeholders who hold radically different perspectives? Are you curious to learn more about… how a nurse helped her patient to do kidney “self-dialysis” on the patient’s schedule? How a clinical […]
Read More...Peer Researchers in Post-Professional Healthcare
Blog post by Andrew Eaton Peer researchers are people who represent a research project’s participants (such as people living with HIV). They partner with academic researchers to conduct research in a collaborative way, seeking to mitigate power dynamics that often occur between researchers and participants in healthcare research. I’m a social worker and PhD student. […]
Read More...Co-research with people living with dementia for change
Abstract provided on behalf of the authors, Jim Mann, Lillian Hung Research about patients with dementia in the context of acute care has been traditionally designed and carried out by researchers with little or no involvement of people with dementia. Moving away from the traditional way of conducting research on people with dementia, this study involved […]
Read More...Hermosa Vida and increasing connectedness through community health partnerships
Partnerships with different organizations can be enticing when we — social justice activists and researchers – plan how to reduce inequality in health. Like many projects, Hermosa Vida, began with great enthusiasm as people from different agencies and communities conceived of a complicated plan in 2010. This plan involved the planting of seeds of engagement […]
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