Dr. Anne Mitchell sits down with Action Research Yes/And co-host Skip Bivens to talk about community mental health research in her native Guyana using participatory digital storytelling (DST). Anne's career in psychiatric nursing took her to the UK where she practiced in the NHS for more than four decades. Then she took an academic turn, completing a PhD using storytelling as a core methodology.
In 2019, Anne turned her attention to Guyana--which has the third highest suicide rate globally--to utilize DST methods in three distinct contexts in order to understand how better to strengthen community resilience. An overview of this research process recently was published in the Action Research Journal. (See link in the show notes.)
In this interview, Anne provides further detail about the methodology her team used, as well as findings arising from the communities' DSTs. She also details her efforts of how she is leveraging this research to influence mental health policy across the whole of Guyana.
Show notes:
Digital storytelling within a community-based mental health improvement programme in Guyana. Mitchell, H. A., Waights, V., & Hart, T. (2024). Action Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/14767503241296717
Arclight Community Mental Health Resilience Handbook:
https://cobracollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ARCLIGHT_handbook.pdf
TV is a key stakeholder. Action Dialogue with Dr. Ann Mitchell. Action Research Plus.
https://actionresearchplus.com/action-dialogue-with-dr-ann-mitchell/
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Dr. Anne Mitchell sits down with Action Research Yes/And co-host Skip Bivens to talk about community mental health research in her native Guyana using participatory digital storytelling (DST). Anne's career in psychiatric nursing took her to the UK where she practiced in the NHS for more than four decades. Then she took an academic turn, completing a PhD using storytelling as a core methodology.
In 2019, Anne turned her attention to Guyana--which has the third highest suicide rate globally--to utilize DST methods in three distinct contexts in order to understand how better to strengthen community resilience. An overview of this research process recently was published in the Action Research Journal. (See link in the show notes.)
In this interview, Anne provides further detail about the methodology her team used, as well as findings arising from the communities' DSTs. She also details her efforts of how she is leveraging this research to influence mental health policy across the whole of Guyana.
Show notes:
Digital storytelling within a community-based mental health improvement programme in Guyana. Mitchell, H. A., Waights, V., & Hart, T. (2024). Action Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/14767503241296717
Arclight Community Mental Health Resilience Handbook:
https://cobracollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ARCLIGHT_handbook.pdf
TV is a key stakeholder. Action Dialogue with Dr. Ann Mitchell. Action Research Plus.
https://actionresearchplus.com/action-dialogue-with-dr-ann-mitchell/
Action Research for Exploring Kinship Networks in a Time of Eco-Social Crisis. S1 Ep20
Action Research Yes/And
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5 months ago
Action Research for Exploring Kinship Networks in a Time of Eco-Social Crisis. S1 Ep20
In her address to the 2025 UAE Family and Society Conference, Dr. Hilary Bradbury introduces action research as a social change and transformations methodology that is helping post conventional kinship networks respond to eco-social crisis.
She discusses in depth an example of action research that is successfully tackling social cohesion issues in a European Eco Village. That’s a village where people seek to live more socially and ecologically sustainably. She brings attention to the human-relational bonds at the heart of living in community. She then illustrates how participative action research tackles, supports and transforms the social cohesion problems.
This work supports a post conventional, post tribal, kinship network. Where conventionally people have relied on strong family structures for emotional and social stability, today’s increasing migration, technological and social changes, have weakened traditional bonds.
Today there are significant human challenges both physical and mental. At the same time, our collective planetary thresholds for biological health are beyond what can be easily fixed. Hilary argues and illustrates that we need a new way of living, of working, of researching. May many more of us learn and practice action research for transformations.
Listen in! Or watch the video in the show notes below to see the complete slide deck.
Show notes:
https://actionresearchplus.com/action-research-is-a-social-change-and-transformations-methodology-for-eco-village-and-kinship-networks/
Action Research Yes/And
Dr. Anne Mitchell sits down with Action Research Yes/And co-host Skip Bivens to talk about community mental health research in her native Guyana using participatory digital storytelling (DST). Anne's career in psychiatric nursing took her to the UK where she practiced in the NHS for more than four decades. Then she took an academic turn, completing a PhD using storytelling as a core methodology.
In 2019, Anne turned her attention to Guyana--which has the third highest suicide rate globally--to utilize DST methods in three distinct contexts in order to understand how better to strengthen community resilience. An overview of this research process recently was published in the Action Research Journal. (See link in the show notes.)
In this interview, Anne provides further detail about the methodology her team used, as well as findings arising from the communities' DSTs. She also details her efforts of how she is leveraging this research to influence mental health policy across the whole of Guyana.
Show notes:
Digital storytelling within a community-based mental health improvement programme in Guyana. Mitchell, H. A., Waights, V., & Hart, T. (2024). Action Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/14767503241296717
Arclight Community Mental Health Resilience Handbook:
https://cobracollective.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ARCLIGHT_handbook.pdf
TV is a key stakeholder. Action Dialogue with Dr. Ann Mitchell. Action Research Plus.
https://actionresearchplus.com/action-dialogue-with-dr-ann-mitchell/
