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/
In this interview Hilary Bradbury, curator at AR+ Foundation and editor-in-chief at Action Research journal talks with fellow action researcher Dr. Marina Apgar.
Marina is an associate editor at ARJ and works with the Inst for Development Studies at U. Sussex in UK. In the interview we aim to bring alive the quality choicepoints for the action research that we use to develop papers at ARJ.
We start the interview with Marina sharing about her own action research, specifically a systemic project that worked to build evidence and practical solutions to hazardous child labour in Bangladesh and Nepal. In this the Quality of Sustaining action research comes alive in particular, given the systemic focus of the programme within the context of international development programming (even as Marina touches on all the other choicepoints too).
Additionally, Marina speaks about papers she has helped shepherd to publication at ARJ including a recently published paper by Dr. Kristen Gossling which exemplifies Quality of Participative Methods. There Marina highlights collective analysis of data as an innovation. Finally we hear about Dr. Andy Hamilton’s et al longitudinal action research with boys in Northern Ireland which brings to life the way action researchers can support intentionality of transformation through building and nurturing learning infrastructures.
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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/
