equitable engagement

  • Nurturing trust through the process

    Concept: equitable engagement, trustForm: observation, questionStatus: Setting out

    Equitable collaboration is less about who sits at the table than when they are invited to it. Trust is nurtured by opening the process while it is still unfinished, so that partners shape the work rather than receive it. Process is where power shows. When collaboration only begins at the finished output, the people who…

  • Equitable Engagement

    Concept: equitable engagementForm: observationStatus: Setting out

    While researchers do think, and try their best, to be equitable in their engagement with communities there is often (and I know this from experience) the feeling among communities, partners etc that researchers are more extractive than they realise. This is often due to the nature of funding where researchers have to end a project…