Grampian Engagement Network

The Innovative Practice of Participatory Research

The Grampian Engagement Network (GEN) and Aberdeen City Community Empowerment Group (CEG) recently welcomed colleagues from Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) University of Aberdeen, Health Research Determinants Collaborative Aberdeen (HDRC) and Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership’s Public Health Team, who presented topics on participatory research, providing theoretical overview and spotlighted examples of work that has taken place locally.

Speaker presentation slides and resources can be found below:

Presentations

Participatory action research
Andrew Paterson, Policy and Research Officer, SCDC

Resources: Presentation on CLAR

An introduction to participatory action research
Leila Neshat Mokadem, Doctoral Researcher, Robert Gordon University

Resources: Let’s go camping! A journey across CBPR – Presentation

Banchory: Empowering the community in its planning for future health and wellbeing
Dawn Tuckwood, Advanced Public Health Coordinator, Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership

Resources: Banchory Participatory Research; Ward 16 data

Cost of living/cost of smoking: a demonstration study of participatory action peer research approach to understand and address smoking in deprived communities within the cost-of-living crisis
Dr Lucia D’Ambruoso, Senior Lecturer, Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science

Resources: COLCOS NHSG GEN

Community Empowerment Toolkit
Community Planning Aberdeen have also been developing a Community Empowerment Toolkit, to help facilitate community action and community engagement.
This toolkit can be found here: Community Empowerment Toolkit – Community Planning Aberdeen

If you would like to provide feedback on the toolkit, you can use this form: https://forms.office.com/e/XASZnJXND4