Community-based research and open science: lessons learned
May 24, 2024
Speaker
Anu Radha Verma and Dr. Nathan Lachowsky
In 2024, KT Connects is focusing on open science — the practice of making scientific inputs, outputs, and processes freely available to all with minimal restrictions. Learn more
Webinar summary
Friday, May 24
12 – 1 p.m. PST
Open science and community-based research are complementary. They both stem from the recognition of needed change to the ‘status quo’, and that requires collective efforts. For 2S/LGBTQQIA+ health research, community-based approaches to research are vitally important. They bring to life the motto “nothing about us without us” (coined by disability rights activists).
This month’s guest speakers are Dr. Nathan Lachowsky from the University of Victoria and Anu Radha Verma from the Community-Based Research Centre (www.cbrc.net). The centre promotes the health of people of diverse sexualities and genders through research and intervention development. In this presentation, Nathan and Anu Radha will share how community-based research is an example of open science in practice – through case studies of learnings, which cover lessons from both success and failure.
Learning objectives
After this webinar, the audience will be able to:
- Identify principles for community-based research that relate to 2S/LGBTQQIA+ communities.
- Describe how open science and community-based research are complementary approaches.
- Understand the successes and challenges of implementing community-based research with and for 2S/LGBTQQIA+ communities.
Speaker bio
Nathan Lachowsky (he/him) is an uninvited settler researcher of Ukrainian and British descent. He is an associate professor in the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria and research director at the Community-Based Research Centre. Championing interdisciplinary and community-based approaches, he has conducted population health research with sexual and gender-minoritized communities – particularly Indigenous Two-Spirit and Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian, Transgender, and Queer people across Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand. His research focuses on social and behavioural epidemiology. and the importance of developing and analyzing mixed methods data to inform public health practice, health service provision, interventions and policy.
Anu Radha Verma (she/her) is an associate director of research at the Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC). Her work at CBRC has been focused on chronic health, conversion practices, anti-racism, and gender-based violence. Anu Radha has lived and worked in both so-called Canada and India, focuses on social justice issues relating to the environment, health, gender and sexuality, poverty, youth, migration, disability and more. She is a queer, diasporic woman of colour with complex connections to ‘South Asia’, a mad-identified survivor, and navigates chronic fatigue while living on the Treaty and Traditional Territory of the Mississauga’s of the Credit. Outside of CBRC, she is a curator, organizes with a grassroots QTBIPOC group, and is engaged in archival work documenting histories of activism in the suburbs.
Resources
- Community-Based Research Centre (cbrc.net)
- CBRC's Research Principles - Community-Based Research Centre
- How CBRC’s New Research Principles Will Guide Our Work Moving Forward - Community-Based Research Centre
- Our Stats - Community-Based Research Centre (cbrc.net)
- OurHealth_2022_English | Tableau Public
- Webinar slides
Upcoming webinar
Dr. Alice Fleerackers and Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin
Date
November 06, 2024
Preprints as knowledge translation: Another way of opening science to the public
In 2024, KT Connects is focusing on open science — the practice of making scientific inputs, outputs, and processes freely available to all with minimal restrictions. Learn more.
Webinar summary
Wednesday, November 6
1 – 2 p.m. PST
Preprints are research papers made publicly available before journal peer review and publishing in scientific journals. They allow rapid and free sharing of findings within and beyond academia. Recent research suggests that journalists also report on them. This brings new challenges and opportunities for making research knowledge public.
This session will introduce participants to preprints as one means to make science more open, as well as key points to remember when using them as a knowledge translation method.
Learning objectives
After this webinar, the audience will be able to:
- Understand the unique role preprints play within the open science movement
- Understand how journalists use preprints and the potential benefits and risks of preprint media coverage for the public
- Identify ways to share preprint research that provide journalists and their audiences with the necessary context to interpret research findings accurately.
Speaker bio
Alice Fleerackers is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, University of British Columbia, and a researcher at the Scholarly Communications Lab, Simon Fraser University. She studies the intersections of journalism, health and science communication, and scholarly communication. She is also a freelance writer, the vice president of the Public Communication of Science and Technology Network (PCST), and co-founder and co-chair of PCST’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee.
Juan Pablo Alperin is an associate professor in the publishing program, Scientific Director of the Public Knowledge Project, and the co-director of the Scholarly Communications Lab at Simon Fraser University. He is a multi-disciplinary scholar who uses a combination of computational techniques and traditional qualitative methods. His work focuses on investigating ways of raising the scientific quality, global impact, and public use of scholarly work.