Participatory Video Interactive Seminar and Mini-Workshop

About the session

This session will introduce Participatory Video (PV) as a tool for group learning and community-based action research. 

We will engage with core debates around PV, exploring epistemological, ethical, political and technical questions.

A brief practical experience of PV at work during the online session will provide scope for exploring the potentials, as well as the challenges involved, especially in the context of conducting research with communities in the Global South.

As this is a hands-on session, places are limited to 15 participants. Places will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. If you're no longer able to make it, please cancel your ticket so we can allocate your place to someone on the waitlist.  

If you have any questions, please email prn@sheffield.ac.uk and copy in p.ngwenya@sheffield.ac.uk.

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We'll send the Google Meet link and any preparation materials during the week before the event.

This session is being run by the Participatory Research Network as part of our 2026 Creative Participatory Methods Workshop series.  

About the facilitator

Dr. Pamela Richardson holds a Marie Curie Fellowship Award at the School of Geography and Planning at the University of Sheffield. Her international research interests bridge across agri-food studies, critical development studies and feminist political ecology. She has a long-term interest in the relations between community, socio-ecological imagination and transformative processes. Her current participatory action research focuses on community-building practices and sustainable food systems in Zimbabwe. Previous postdoctoral work in Tanzania explored issues of participation, gender and socio-cultural patterns of difference in the context of Agricultural Research for Development. Her doctoral research at the University of Oxford interrogated the ethical dimensions of Caribbean-European sugar trade policy reform and developed innovative modes of enquiry, including video methods, which sought to deepen attention to situated knowledges, embodiment and ecological agencies.

Her work prioritises generative community engagement. She won TUoS’s 2025 ECR prize for Outstanding Impact and Partnerships in Environment and Sustainability and has earned a variety of other international awards and fellowships (incl. the Andrew Mellow Postdoctoral Fellowship, held at the University of KwaZulu-Natal). Pamela leads various initiatives including Make it Grow and Video-Co-Lab and is a trainer and facilitator of collaborative video production and storytelling methods. Currently, she focuses on supporting organisational and community capacity-building with a range of global partners, and has particular expertise in codesign processes and agroecological  communications.