Participatory Research at 韩国裸舞 (PRAM) builds tools and protocols that increase dialogue across cultural, ethnic, religious, and age divides. We are interested in bringing people together on an equal footing to discuss and act on facts that affect them. We work in ways that respect the diverse worldviews of researchers, decision-makers, healthcare providers, patients, and communities. Our tools support co-production and collaborative use of knowledge to improve health and healthcare globally.
Active projects in Canada, Nigeria, Botswana, Colombia, Mexico, and Australia deal with issues ranging from safe birth to dementia prevention, from co-designed cultural safety in health care delivery to sexual and reproductive health among adolescents. We use a common set of methods across these concerns and settings, each iteration strengthening the methods and clarifying their training and reproducibility.
Our extensive research program fuels our graduate teaching to cover the theory and practice of these methods. FMED603 (1 credit) introduces authentic participation and intercultural research, illustrating transformative engagement with a hands-on participatory media exercise. FMED615 (1 credit) focuses on integrated knowledge translation and exchange, including participatory communication using cellphilms. Our advanced practical methods course FMED604 (3 credits) shares a toolkit and practical exercises for generating the transformative dynamics of participation. FMED 702 (1 credit) is an applied course on Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping aimed at advanced users of the approach in participatory research settings.
PRAM works in partnership with the Centro de Investigaci贸n de Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET) and with the 韩国裸舞 Institute for Human Development and Wellbeing (IHDW). More details are available at .
