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/
Roma Access to Public Services in Hungary. S1 Ep22
Action Research Yes/And
1 hour 38 minutes 49 seconds
5 months ago
Roma Access to Public Services in Hungary. S1 Ep22
In this episode of Action Research Yes/And, co-host Felix ‘Skip’ Bivens speaks with Hungary-based researchers Dr. Violeta Vajda, Kata Kárász, and Gábor Daróczi. This team has just published a multi-year action research analysis of the accessibility of public services for the large Roma population—around 800,000 citizens—which exists in Hungary. In the post-Soviet era, Roma in Hungary have been actively segregated, crowded into homogenous ethic enclaves within larger cities or independent rural villages with their own schools designated only for Roma children. In this context, many such communities face inadequate or absent public services such as transportation and health care, among others.
Since 2019, the European Union has sought to rectify this imbalance through the funding of the Felzárkózó Települések (FETE) program, which is providing hundreds of millions of Euros in aid to Hungary’s three-hundred most disadvantaged villages. While not explicitly a Roma-focused project, the vast majority of the communities included in FETE programs are Roma-majority localities. Working with young Roma activists trained in action research methods, Violeta, Kata and Gábor engaged multiple communities to determine the current availability and quality of public services and to what degree the ongoing FETE program is making an impact on these issues. They found unevenness in the delivery of the program, while the overall impact of the initative is masked by a lack of transparency about implementation and impact assessment of FETE activities, which are not administered directly by the EU but through a variety of local government and voluntary sector actors.
Given the current Hungarian government’s status as a role model for 21st century authoritarianism, the conversation also delves into the role of action research and community-generated data under regimes that actively work to obscure transparency and analysis of their activities.
Key Themes in this Episode:
Introductions and backgrounds: 2:00-8:30
Context: Hungarian political environment and situation of Roma communities: 9:00-24:00
Research background and description of FETE program: 25:00-46:00
Research methodology: 47:00-55:00
Research findings: 56:00-1:14.00
Knowledge mobilization strategies: 1:16:00-1:24.30
Working with Roma youth as co-researchers: 1:24:30-1:28.30
Wider Lessons from researching in the Hungarian political context: 1:28:30-1:36.30
Show Notes:
Roma Access to Public Service in Hungary Reports:
https://phirenamenca.eu/public-service-access-by-roma-in-hungary-research-reports/
Phiren Amenca
https://phirenamenca.eu/
The Roma Women's Network
https://www.facebook.com/romanoihalozat
Independent Theater Hungary
https://independenttheater.hu/en/
Romaversitas
https://romaversitas.hu/en/
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/
