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From Data Collection to Dissemination: Empowering Older Adults in Qualitative Research using Arts-based Methods
Jill Hoselton1, Christine Walsh1, Alison Grittner2
1University of Calgary, Calgary. 2Cape Breton University, Sydney
This workshop will explore how arts-based research methods can be used alongside marginalized older adults to elicit their unique experiences and perspectives to inform program development and policymaking. Arts-based methods are one means of understanding abstract dimensions of human experience including emotions, memories, and senses. Drawing on the arts-based research conducted as part of the Aging in the Right Place Partnership, a cross-Canada interdisciplinary inquiry investigating the perspectives of older adult who have experienced homelessness, we will share strategies for conducting photovoice and arts-based elicitation interviews, disseminating arts-based knowledge, and translating these forms of research to inform future policy and practice. Attendees will participate in arts-based methods and generate possibilities for utilizing artful approaches in their own areas of research with older adults. Desired learning outcomes of this workshop are (1) to understand the purpose and utility of arts-based methods with marginalized groups (2) gain skills in photovoice and arts-based elicitation through applied practice, and (3) develop strategies for using arts-based methods in knowledge mobilization to empower co-researchers and influence future policy and practice.