Co-producing knowledge about the impacts of emergencies/pandemics: Developing remote participatory visual methods using smartphones

该项目的目标是通过开发一种使用智能手机的创新远程参与式视觉方法，应对紧急情况下出现的方法联合制作和参与式行动研究--几乎总是面对面地进行--的挑战。我们将与哥伦比亚的移民妇女和一家总部位于伦敦的电影公司合作，共同开发和测试一种新颖和开创性的远程参与式视觉方法，供联合制作研究人员使用，通过远程参与式拍摄来调查新冠肺炎大流行对女性城市生活新生活现实的影响。整个研究过程，从开发到传播，都将在网上进行。在紧急情况下，如新冠肺炎疫情，通过旅行和社交限制，面对面的研究变得不可能。许多研究人员在数据收集之前或期间立即停滞不前，但与研究参与者合作的必要性仍然存在。同样的情况也可能发生在气候紧急情况、灾害、受冲突影响地区或没有足够资金用于国际旅行的情况下。这在跨国研究中尤其具有挑战性，在这种危机时期与被边缘化的社区开展合作研究方法变得更加紧迫。远程参与式视觉方法提供了一种继续或启动参与式工作的解决方案，同时确保联合制作和影响研究仍然具有创造社会变革和转变过去、当前和不断发展的问题的潜力。能够在不进行面对面接触的情况下共同产生知识的最有前途的解决方案之一是使用智能手机收集和共享音频、视觉和书面数据。全球智能手机使用的增加为研究人员提供了跨国远程联系参与者的机会，并为参与者仍然能够表达自己的声音提供了机会。因此，远程参与式视觉方法可以在紧急情况下提供深入的见解，与参与者共同制作，包括那些传统上听不到声音的人，同时努力在研究过程中实现权力关系的均衡化。为了在该项目中成功开发一种开创性的远程参与式视觉方法，英国和哥伦比亚的一个由地理学、社会学、国际发展、电影制作和教育与人权学者组成的跨学科研究团队和一家总部位于伦敦的电影公司将探索和测试使用智能手机进行远程参与者招募和参与式视觉数据收集的方法、伦理和技术挑战以及可能性。我们将与哥伦比亚的移民妇女合作，制作四个拍摄和评估周期，在此期间，我们将对研究人员和参与者进行拍摄技术方面的培训，同时收集拍摄材料，制作短片，记录大流行病如何影响妇女就其在麦德林和波哥大城市的性别权利的谈判。在方法上，这项研究将开发、试点和评估一种新的远程参与式视觉方法，这种方法可以改变联合制作研究的格局，并使这种形式的研究更容易在因无法与参与者面对面接触而被排除在外的情况下进行。该项目将为社会科学研究人员编写培训材料。实质上，该研究项目将为城市贡献共同制作的关于妇女性别权利的知识，包括弱势妇女的声音，她们经常缺席当时的紧急情况和灾害评论，特别是在不可能或不受欢迎的面对面接触的情况下。

The goal of this project is to respond to the challenges of methodological co-production and participatory action research - which are almost always conducted in person face-to-face - that arise during emergencies by developing an innovative remote participatory visual method using smartphones. In collaboration with migrant women in Colombia and a London-based film company, we will co-develop and test a novel and pioneering remote participatory visual method for co-production researchers by applying participatory filming remotely to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women's new lived realities of urban life. The whole research process, from development to dissemination, will be conducted online. During emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face research becomes impossible through travel and social contact restrictions. Many researchers have been stalled immediately prior to, or during, data collection, but the need to work with research participants remains. The same can occur in contexts of climate emergencies, disasters, conflict affected areas or in situations where there is not enough funding available for international travel. This is particularly challenging in transnational research and where collaborative research methodologies conducted with marginalised communities in times of such crisis become even more pressing. A remote participatory visual methodology provides a solution to continue or initiate participatory work, whilst ensuring that co-production and impact research still holds the potential to create social change and transformation of past, current and evolving issues.One of the most promising solutions to be able to co-produce knowledge without face-to-face in-person contact is the use of smartphones to collect and share audio, visual and written data. The increased use of smartphones worldwide provides an opportunity for researchers to connect to participants transnationally remotely and for participants to still being able to express their voice. A remote participatory visual methodology may thus offer deep insights during emergencies, co-produced with participants to include those whose voices are traditionally unheard, while working towards the equalisation of power-relationships during the research process.To successfully develop a pioneering remote participatory visual method in this project, an interdisciplinary research team in the UK and Colombia consisting of Geography, Sociology, International Development, Filmmaking and Education and Human Rights scholars and a London-based film company will explore and test the methodological, ethical and technical challenges and possibilities of the use of smartphones for remote participant recruitment and participatory visual data collection. In collaboration with migrant women in Colombia, we will produce four filming and evaluation cycles, during which we will train researchers and participants in filming techniques, while at the same time collecting filmed material to produce short films of how the pandemic impacts the women's negotiation of their gendered right to the city in Medellin and Bogotá. Methodologically, the research will develop, pilot and evaluate a novel remote participatory visual method that can shift the co-production research landscape and make this form of research more accessible in contexts that have been excluded because of lack of face-to-face access to participants. The project will produce training materials for social science researchers. Substantively, the research project will contribute co-produced knowledge about women's gendered right to the city, including the voices of vulnerable women who are frequently absent from contemporaneous commentaries of emergencies and disasters, especially in situations where face-to-face contact is impossible or undesirable.