Embodied Ethics: Exploring Participatory Research Through Theatre and Practice

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Event details

Seminar Room 4, The Wave, The University of Sheffield, 2 Whitham Road, Sheffield, S10 2AH

Description

This workshop is limited to 20 participants. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. If we reach capacity, we'll put you on a waitlist and be in touch if a place opens up.  Please let us know if you can no longer make it, so we can allocate your place to someone else.


Who is this for? 

The workshop invites those who are up for being playful, curious,  and ready to explore their own participatory research ethics practice. It is open to anyone who’s spent some time doing participatory research in academia or who’s dug into the literature deep enough to be knowledgeable about participatory research. 

Workshop overview

This 4-hour interactive workshop invites participants to explore participatory research ethics in a creative, reflective, and embodied way. Drawing on image theatre (one of the core techniques from Theatre of the Oppressed) alongside other creative methods and group discussions, the session creates space to think and feel through some of the key questions that shape participatory work.
 
Together, we’ll explore how our values, positionalities, and relationships to power show up in research practice. We’ll explore some of the principles of participatory research ethics, and take a look at the challenges that can arise when undertaking participatory research in university settings. 
The workshop will also focus on practice: what does it actually mean to do participatory research? How can we embody these principles throughout our research process? Through collective play and sharing of experiences, we’ll experiment with ways of navigating tensions, constraints, and possibilities in participatory research.

We'll have comfort breaks embedded in the workshop. 

Tea/coffee and cakes will also be provided. 

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Bio of the facilitator

River Újhadbor is a researcher and theatre director working across participatory research and socially engaged performance. They have collaborated with organisations including Cardboard Citizens, Clean Break and Microrainbow, creating work rooted in experiences of oppression, affinity and resistance. Their practice explores migrant, trans and queer lives through theatre, movement and community dialogue.

River is currently exhibiting participatory research at Queercircle as part of Desire Lines, featuring Counter Mapping: Queer Creative Health, a project developed through collaborative, community-based research exploring queer wellbeing and spatial experience.
Recently, they were part of the team that successfully secured a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award for a five-year study exploring LGBTQ+ health and housing inequities.

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