We are excited to share this new publication, by CCBR Senior Researcher, Sarah Switzer, and co-authors. The article is published in the open-access Journal of Participatory Research Methods.
In the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many community-engaged practitioners struggled with how to build, maintain or sustain our community-engaged projects, alongside mass upheaval, loss, and uncertainty. Our modes of gathering shifted abruptly to online meeting and messaging applications, phone, and even through the mail. This shift also amplified many ethical complexities, like privacy and confidentiality, equitable access, and safety, for those facilitating workshops or programs in non-profit, community-based and participatory research contexts. This article explores findings from a participatory study on how community-engaged practitioners across Canada adapted their facilitation approaches to online or remote platforms amidst COVID-19. The authors describe their processes and offer some reflections on what might be gleaned about online and remote community-engaged facilitation for the present moment. The article serves as a guide for emerging and established community-engaged practitioners to reflect on their ‘how and why’ of facilitation when working with and alongside communities for social change.
The article culminated out of a larger study, Beyond the Toolkit, that was hosted at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, in partnership with a number of community collaborators. Sarah Switzer was a SSHRC-funded post-doctoral fellow at the time of the study.
Citation: Switzer, S., Vela Alarcón, A., Gaztambide-Fernández, R., Burkholder, C., Howley, E., & Ibáñez Carrasco, F. (2024). Online and Remote Community-Engaged Facilitation: Pedagogical and Ethical Considerations and Commitments. Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 5(3). https://doi.org/10.35844/001c.116337
Image Credit : Illustrations designed by Andrea Vela Alarcón
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