This workshop explores community-engaged research methods across a range of disciplines in the social and natural sciences, the humanities and health sciences. Dr. Stuart Poyntz, Director of the Community Engaged Research Initiative at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada will introduce the field of community engaged research (CER) along with a selection of CER methods including arts-based research creation, social audits, citizen science, participatory mapping and evaluation and oral history. We will also examine key challenges in developing CER projects, including issues of timeliness, rigour, relationality and knowledge outputs.

We invite all the students and researchers interested in deepening your understanding of community-engaged research methods.

Join us for a thought-provoking seminar that will explore the practical applications and challenges of this approach.

Registration is open until Monday, November 11.

Registration is free, but mandatory [HERE]. Limited to 20 participants.

Workshop organised within the CULTURS International Conference “Towards creative resilience? Re-imagining urban cultures, sociabilities and participation”.


Bio note

Stuart R. Poyntz is Professor and Director of the School of Communication, Editor of the Canadian Journal of Communication and Director of the Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) at Simon Fraser University. Stuart’s research addresses children’s media cultures, theories of public life, social care and urban youth cultures. His work in participatory research has largely involved teenagers in informal learning spaces and art institutes. He has published six books, including the new monograph, Youthsites: Histories of Creativity, Care and Learning in the City (Oxford UP), and the forthcoming collection, Critical Futures: Community Engaged Research in Times of Social Transformation (University of Toronto Press).