Participatory research: Creating sustainable, ethical and impactful practice
*To reserve a place on the course please email Lucy Sheerman, lucy.sheerman@admin.cam.ac.uk, by 26 April.
Fitzwilliam Museum is currently leading pioneering work on participatory research and practice, work that has shaped their current show Tensions of Belonging: Connecting Cambridge. Their practitioner research associate: collections and participation, David Farrell-Banks will lead a series of workshops that explore innovative techniques in collaborative research.
Workshop Dates: Wednesday 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd May
Time: 10:30 – 12:30
Location: Seminar Room, Fitzwilliam Museum on 1st May; Room S2 (second floor), CRASSH on 8th, 15th and 22nd May
Sessions:
- What is participatory research and practice?
- Methods for Participation and Collaboration
- Ethics & Creating Sustainable Partnerships in Participatory Research
- Creating Impact through Participation
Programme overview: This series of four training workshops will focus on increasing confidence in adopting participatory methods in research projects. The programme will:
- explore participatory methodologies
- consider how sustainable relationships can be developed
- engage with the ethical implications of participatory work.
The workshops will support attendees in developing projects that achieve and evidence impact through collaboration and participation as well as providing space to develop ideas for new collaborative research and practice.
The workshops will provide space for attendees to work collaboratively across the course of the programme, embedding principles of participatory practice into the delivery of the sessions.
This workshop series has been collaboratively developed by the Fitzwilliam Museum Practitioner Research team. Sessions will be led by David Farrell-Banks and have been co-developed by Emily Bradfield, Kate Noble, Molly Stock-Duerdoth, Jo Vine and Nicola Wallis.
Booking: Places on the training course are limited and participation in all four sessions, where possible, is encouraged. To reserve a place on the course please email Lucy Sheerman, lucy.sheerman@admin.cam.ac.uk, by 26 April.
