Matthew Sha
Biographic Data
| ID | 312950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Sha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Sha |
| SIGNATURE | SHA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2845-0874 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alcohol as social glue and gloom in men's mutual help for mental health
Peer support is increasingly advocated for promoting men's mental health. That said, men's peer connections are often socially intertwined with alcohol use, which can limit potential mental health gains. This article describes the gendered dimensions of alcohol use in men's peer mutual help for mental health. Drawing on photovoice interviews with 52 Canadian-based men, we inductively derived two themes: alcohol as social glue, and alcohol as soci…
Data or Deception
Online recruitment and data collection in qualitative research grew significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing a host of benefits including cost and time savings for researchers and participants. However, significant risks and limitations exist when recruiting and interviewing participants online. ‘Imposter participants’ have emerged, seemingly incentivized by study honoraria. These imposter participants invoke significant administrati…
Canadian Men's Intimate Partner Relationship Break-Ups During Covid-19
COVID-19 impacted many men's intimate partner relationships, with distressed and disrupted partnerships consistently featured in commentaries with linkages to mental health challenges. The current study draws from interviews with 23 Canadian-based men, 19-50 years old, who experienced a break-up during COVID-19. Addressing the research question, "What are the connections between masculinities, men's mental health, and intimate partner relationshi…
Participatory Action Research and Knowledge Dissemination in Virtual Photovoice
Despite the methodological spread of virtual photovoice, alignments to and potential advances for the participatory action research (PAR) and knowledge dissemination (KD) components of in-person photovoice are poorly understood. Detailing the PAR and KD processes, practices, and products drawn from a virtual photovoice study examining men's experiences of and perspectives about equitable intimate partner relationships, the current article offers …
The case for and Against Doing Virtual Photovoice
Photovoice offers creative participatory action methods for conveying community strengths and challenges with the goal of addressing health inequities. Accelerated by COVID-19 restrictions, photovoice has increasingly become virtual, and this shift has given rise to new considerations including navigating online recruitment and data collection, e-participatory action trends and working with multi-site large qualitative data sets. Within these con…
The case for and Against Doing Virtual Photovoice
Photovoice offers creative participatory action methods for conveying community strengths and challenges with the goal of addressing health inequities. Accelerated by COVID-19 restrictions, photovoice has increasingly become virtual, and this shift has given rise to new considerations including navigating online recruitment and data collection, e-participatory action trends and working with multi-site large qualitative data sets. Within these con…
The case for and Against Doing Virtual Photovoice
Photovoice offers creative participatory action methods for conveying community strengths and challenges with the goal of addressing health inequities. Accelerated by COVID-19 restrictions, photovoice has increasingly become virtual, and this shift has given rise to new considerations including navigating online recruitment and data collection, e-participatory action trends and working with multi-site large qualitative data sets. Within these con…
Participatory Action Research and Knowledge Dissemination in Virtual Photovoice
Despite the methodological spread of virtual photovoice, alignments to and potential advances for the participatory action research (PAR) and knowledge dissemination (KD) components of in-person photovoice are poorly understood. Detailing the PAR and KD processes, practices, and products drawn from a virtual photovoice study examining men's experiences of and perspectives about equitable intimate partner relationships, the current article offers …
Canadian Men's Intimate Partner Relationship Break-Ups During Covid-19
COVID-19 impacted many men's intimate partner relationships, with distressed and disrupted partnerships consistently featured in commentaries with linkages to mental health challenges. The current study draws from interviews with 23 Canadian-based men, 19-50 years old, who experienced a break-up during COVID-19. Addressing the research question, "What are the connections between masculinities, men's mental health, and intimate partner relationshi…
Alcohol as social glue and gloom in men's mutual help for mental health
Peer support is increasingly advocated for promoting men's mental health. That said, men's peer connections are often socially intertwined with alcohol use, which can limit potential mental health gains. This article describes the gendered dimensions of alcohol use in men's peer mutual help for mental health. Drawing on photovoice interviews with 52 Canadian-based men, we inductively derived two themes: alcohol as social glue, and alcohol as soci…
Data or Deception
Online recruitment and data collection in qualitative research grew significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing a host of benefits including cost and time savings for researchers and participants. However, significant risks and limitations exist when recruiting and interviewing participants online. ‘Imposter participants’ have emerged, seemingly incentivized by study honoraria. These imposter participants invoke significant administrati…
Political science (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Citizen journalism (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works) · Mental health (2 works) · Participatory action research (2 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (2 works) · Photovoice (2 works)