Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 260102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanya Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Benjamin-Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | BENJAMIN-THOMAS T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9830-3242 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Enacting the Principles of Participatory Action Research (PAR): Reflections From the Initial Stages of a Project With Older Adults With Vision Loss
Introduction: While existing reflections on participatory action research (PAR) emphasize the benefits experienced by participants in such studies, they often fail to critically interrogate the PAR process. This gap underscores the significance of process-oriented papers that illuminate the dynamics, supports, and hurdles of PAR, crucial for aligning scholarly endeavors with its fundamental principles of equitable participation, social transforma…
Participatory Action Research Among People With Serious Mental Illness: A Scoping Review
Participatory action research (PAR) is a research approach that creates spaces for marginalized individuals and communities to be co-researchers to guide relevant social change. While working toward social transformation, all members of the PAR team often experience personal transformation. Engaging people with serious mental illness (PSMI) in PAR helps them to develop skills and build relationships with stakeholders in their communities. It supp…
What do we mean by critical and ethical global engagement? Questions from a research partnership between universities in Canada and Rwanda
Language - the words we use - can play a key role in enabling or limiting transformation of inequalities in the field of global health. At the same time, given the interdisciplinary, intersectoral, and international nature of much global health work, intended meanings, commitments, and underlying values for words used cannot be taken for granted. This commentary sets out to clarify, and in this manner render available for further discussion and d…
Situating occupational injustices experienced by children with disabilities in rural India within sociocultural, economic, and systemic conditions
This paper contributes to diversifying and situating understandings of occupational injustices through presenting findings from the knowledge generation phase of a participatory action research (PAR) project that utilized participatory filmmaking with children with disabilities in rural South India as co-researchers. Centering on situations of occupational injustices generated through a participatory analysis conducted with the child co-researche…
A participatory filmmaking process with children with disabilities in rural India: Working towards inclusive research
Children with disabilities often experience exclusion within their communities, and this exclusion can extend into research processes. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, however, emphasizes that children of all abilities need to be involved as decision makers in matters affecting them. This article provides an in-depth description of the process of a participatory action research project carried out with children with disab…
Participatory digital methodologies: Potential of three approaches for advancing transformative occupation-based research with children and youth
This paper addresses the need for methodological expansions that enable critical examination of the situated nature of occupation and enact transformative research agendas. Participatory digital methodologies offer a potential way forward given their critical underpinnings and have been proposed as particularly appropriate to facilitate engagement of children and youth. This paper provides a critical methodological review of interdisciplinary res…
Working Towards the Promise of Participatory Action Research: Learning From Ageing Research Exemplars
Within research addressing issues of social justice, there is a growing uptake of participatory action research (PAR) approaches that are ideally committed to equitable participation of community members in all phases of the research process in order to collaboratively enact social transformation. However, the utilization of such approaches has not always matched the ideal, with inconsistencies in how participation and action are incorporated. 'P…
Working Towards the Promise of Participatory Action Research: Learning From Ageing Research Exemplars
Within research addressing issues of social justice, there is a growing uptake of participatory action research (PAR) approaches that are ideally committed to equitable participation of community members in all phases of the research process in order to collaboratively enact social transformation. However, the utilization of such approaches has not always matched the ideal, with inconsistencies in how participation and action are incorporated. 'P…
A participatory filmmaking process with children with disabilities in rural India: Working towards inclusive research
Children with disabilities often experience exclusion within their communities, and this exclusion can extend into research processes. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, however, emphasizes that children of all abilities need to be involved as decision makers in matters affecting them. This article provides an in-depth description of the process of a participatory action research project carried out with children with disab…
Participatory digital methodologies: Potential of three approaches for advancing transformative occupation-based research with children and youth
This paper addresses the need for methodological expansions that enable critical examination of the situated nature of occupation and enact transformative research agendas. Participatory digital methodologies offer a potential way forward given their critical underpinnings and have been proposed as particularly appropriate to facilitate engagement of children and youth. This paper provides a critical methodological review of interdisciplinary res…
Situating occupational injustices experienced by children with disabilities in rural India within sociocultural, economic, and systemic conditions
This paper contributes to diversifying and situating understandings of occupational injustices through presenting findings from the knowledge generation phase of a participatory action research (PAR) project that utilized participatory filmmaking with children with disabilities in rural South India as co-researchers. Centering on situations of occupational injustices generated through a participatory analysis conducted with the child co-researche…
Enacting the Principles of Participatory Action Research (PAR): Reflections From the Initial Stages of a Project With Older Adults With Vision Loss
Introduction: While existing reflections on participatory action research (PAR) emphasize the benefits experienced by participants in such studies, they often fail to critically interrogate the PAR process. This gap underscores the significance of process-oriented papers that illuminate the dynamics, supports, and hurdles of PAR, crucial for aligning scholarly endeavors with its fundamental principles of equitable participation, social transforma…
Participatory digital methodologies: Potential of three approaches for advancing transformative occupation-based research with children and youth
This paper addresses the need for methodological expansions that enable critical examination of the situated nature of occupation and enact transformative research agendas. Participatory digital methodologies offer a potential way forward given their critical underpinnings and have been proposed as particularly appropriate to facilitate engagement of children and youth. This paper provides a critical methodological review of interdisciplinary res…
Working Towards the Promise of Participatory Action Research: Learning From Ageing Research Exemplars
Within research addressing issues of social justice, there is a growing uptake of participatory action research (PAR) approaches that are ideally committed to equitable participation of community members in all phases of the research process in order to collaboratively enact social transformation. However, the utilization of such approaches has not always matched the ideal, with inconsistencies in how participation and action are incorporated. 'P…
A participatory filmmaking process with children with disabilities in rural India: Working towards inclusive research
Children with disabilities often experience exclusion within their communities, and this exclusion can extend into research processes. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, however, emphasizes that children of all abilities need to be involved as decision makers in matters affecting them. This article provides an in-depth description of the process of a participatory action research project carried out with children with disab…
What do we mean by critical and ethical global engagement? Questions from a research partnership between universities in Canada and Rwanda
Language - the words we use - can play a key role in enabling or limiting transformation of inequalities in the field of global health. At the same time, given the interdisciplinary, intersectoral, and international nature of much global health work, intended meanings, commitments, and underlying values for words used cannot be taken for granted. This commentary sets out to clarify, and in this manner render available for further discussion and d…
Situating occupational injustices experienced by children with disabilities in rural India within sociocultural, economic, and systemic conditions
This paper contributes to diversifying and situating understandings of occupational injustices through presenting findings from the knowledge generation phase of a participatory action research (PAR) project that utilized participatory filmmaking with children with disabilities in rural South India as co-researchers. Centering on situations of occupational injustices generated through a participatory analysis conducted with the child co-researche…
Participatory Action Research Among People With Serious Mental Illness: A Scoping Review
Participatory action research (PAR) is a research approach that creates spaces for marginalized individuals and communities to be co-researchers to guide relevant social change. While working toward social transformation, all members of the PAR team often experience personal transformation. Engaging people with serious mental illness (PSMI) in PAR helps them to develop skills and build relationships with stakeholders in their communities. It supp…
Enacting the Principles of Participatory Action Research (PAR): Reflections From the Initial Stages of a Project With Older Adults With Vision Loss
Introduction: While existing reflections on participatory action research (PAR) emphasize the benefits experienced by participants in such studies, they often fail to critically interrogate the PAR process. This gap underscores the significance of process-oriented papers that illuminate the dynamics, supports, and hurdles of PAR, crucial for aligning scholarly endeavors with its fundamental principles of equitable participation, social transforma…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Action research (6 works) · Citizen journalism (6 works) · Participatory action research (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (5 works) · Action (physics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)