Conducting Intimate Partner Violence Research Using Community Based Participatory Action Research (CBPR)
Tuesday November 16, 2021 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM AST
Presenter Dr. Esprene Liddell
Description
For many decades, traditional research has emphasized using a paradigm that positions academics as detached observers conducting research on participants (Montero, 2002; Johansson, & Lindhult, 2008). While such an approach has been useful to academics, it has been problematized as expert-driven research. Recently, Community Based Participatory Action Research (CPBR) has come to the forefront as an alternative research paradigm that challenges traditional notions of research that fails to legitimize and validate community knowledge (Minkler, 2005). CBPR emphasizes collaborative partnerships and encourages researchers to explore ways of working with communities instead of working on communities. Unlike the traditional research paradigm, CBPR allows communities to become equal partners in producing and creating knowledge that will benefit both the academics and the community. Through this workshop, attendees will gain both didactic and experiential knowledge of CBPR.
Learning Objectives:
1) to expose attendees to the principles and challenges of CBPR.
2) to teach attendees how to prepare and plan to conduct intimate partner violence research using CPBR.
3) to expose attendees to CBPR values and practices in conducting intimate partner violence research.
For many decades, traditional research has emphasized using a paradigm that positions academics as detached observers conducting research on participants (Montero, 2002; Johansson, & Lindhult, 2008). While such an approach has been useful to academics, it has been problematized as expert-driven research. Recently, Community Based Participatory Action Research (CPBR) has come to the forefront as an alternative research paradigm that challenges traditional notions of research that fails to legitimize and validate community knowledge (Minkler, 2005). CBPR emphasizes collaborative partnerships and encourages researchers to explore ways of working with communities instead of working on communities. Unlike the traditional research paradigm, CBPR allows communities to become equal partners in producing and creating knowledge that will benefit both the academics and the community. Through this workshop, attendees will gain both didactic and experiential knowledge of CBPR. The main objectives of this workshop are:
1) to expose attendees to the principles and challenges of CBPR.
2) to teach attendees how to prepare and plan to conduct intimate partner violence research using CPBR.
3) to expose attendees to CBPR values and practices in conducting intimate partner violence research.
Presenter
Dr. Esprene Liddell-Quintyn is a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University. She received her Ph.D. in Community Psychology from the University of Miami. Her research focuses on intimate partner violence among Black, Caribbean, and immigrant populations. Dr. Liddell-Quintyn is intentional about moving beyond traditional approaches that rely on intrapsychic treatment models. She instead focuses on partnering with communities to co-create systemic solutions that target intimate partner violence among people of color. As a Community-Engaged Scholar (CES), she employs qualitative methodologies to examine intimate partner violence and grounds her research in Community Based Participatory (CBPR) research. She currently serves as the co-chair of the Early Scholars Committee for the Caribbean Regional Conference of Psychology (CRCP). In this role, she plans workshops, mentoring sessions, and social events for Caribbean students and early career professionals living in the Caribbean and across the diaspora.