Publicaties

In the context of a call for public health research to address social challenges and transform communities and society, research translation has increasingly become an imperative in South Africa. Research translation seeks to improve real-world settings and enhance quality of life by applying research-generated knowledge. These goals are shared by proponents of participatory action research (PAR). However, the way in which research is pursued ...

¿La Investigación Transdisciplinaria – IT un nuevo paradigma o un nuevo nombre para lo que Fals Borda llamaría Investigación Acción Participativa - IAP? En las últimas dos décadas en Europa ha habido una proliferación de publicaciones sobre la IT, definiéndola como un proceso de aprendizaje mutuo entre ciencia y sociedad, utilizado para resolver problemas sociales complejos y con el fin de crear conocimientos socialmente robustos y ...

The mediation of migration has inspired ample scholarship in the past decades for understanding global power dynamics and the role of communication processes in maintaining, questioning, and reverting those very dynamics. This paper sheds light on the experiences of migrants and their tactics for creating more humane, inclusive, and authentic media representations. It reports on one year of participatory action research with six undocumented ...

Child and adolescent engagement for health promotion can be realized through participatory action research (PAR). However, there is a lack of understanding regarding the concrete steps needed to actualize such empowerment. We propose a framework that outlines six elements that need to be considered when designing a PAR study that strives to actua-lize child and adolescent empowerment. These are 1) Safeguarding the necessary resources; 2) Having ...

Stigma towards people who use(d) illegal drugs (PWUDs) has been articulated as an enduring societal problem by scholars, practitioners, advocacy organisations and PWUDs. Stigma can negatively affect the overall well-being and health of PWUDs, especially with regard to people who experience problems with drugs, who would like to receive support or are in recovery. Furthermore, an extensive body of literature documents the phenomenon of ...

This study explores the impact of the ‘pre-intervention effects’ of a community-based intervention. This refers to participatory research processes and parallel publicity in the media on changes in alcohol use and relevant mechanisms (rules and norms about alcohol, accessibility of alcohol in a formal setting) among adolescents before any intervention is implemented. The aim was to investigate the contribution of these processes (i.e., ...

Resilience research with war-affected populations has long conceptualized resilience as the absence of psychopathology and operationalized it by use of standardized measures. However, literature on resilience increasingly highlights the importance of also including indicators of positively valued functioning as well as contextually sensitive indicators of resilience. This study used a participatory approach to examine the contextual ...