Phil Taylor [email protected] The focus of the UKPRN meeting in November 2019, at the Dean Bowling Club in Edinburgh, was ‘co-analysing data: authority, power and voice’. In the morning session Professor Charlotte Clarke presented her research project ‘Inciting Dialogue in Dementia’, which involved interrogating an existing qualitative dataset in partnership with people living with dementia. The resulting dialogues informed both published research and arts performances, while prompting questions of where authority, power and voice lie in these processes. We were encouraged to ‘question whether the validity or confirmability of research is a property of the teller or receiver’ and to consider ‘multiple voicing’ as a ‘rejection of single integrating conclusions’.
Charlotte’s presentation also offered insights into care as ‘a co-operative relational endeavour’ that might inform participatory approaches to research and data analysis in many fields. Co-operative communication involves ‘listening on’ and ‘talking eye to eye’, co-operative action entails ‘working alongside’ others, while co-operative care implies ‘solidarity’. These and many other thought-provoking ideas paved the way for the afternoon workshop session on participatory data analysis, led by Toby Brandon. It was good to spend time over lunch talking with regular and new members of the network, while discussing a diverse selection of posters showcasing participatory research projects. During the afternoon workshop on participatory data analysis (PDA), five groups explored a choice of two questions to pursue: What is the possible added value of PDA? What do you have to do to ‘make’ PDA work and for whom? This was a three-stage process, first with individuals noting initial ideas on Post-its, generating some data for participatory analysis. The second stage involved sharing these ideas, grouping and categorising them collaboratively, with much discussion (‘listening on’ and ‘talking eye to eye’), diagramming (trees and butterflies) as well as laughter. The third stage attempted agreed summary statements in response to the chosen question, shared with everyone present and summarised below: What is the possible added value of PDA?
What do you have to do to ‘make’ PDA work and for whom?
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