Research meets art: Communicating research on public involvement
Sound art piece on co-creation and participation Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt
This project is a collaboration between researchers, co-researchers with a refugee background, a communicator and an professional artist. Together we explore how to do meaningful and ethical involvement with forced migrants - and how the results can be communicated through art.
Details
- Period: 2022-12-01 – 2024-11-30
- Funder: Swedish Research Council
- Type of funding: Projektbidrag
Description
In the project, researchers, co-researchers with a refugee background, a communicator and a professional artist collaborate on what is the main question of the research - how to do meaningful and ethical co-creative research with refugees and how this can be communicated outside academia. Within the project we create three communication platforms:
- A handbook with a practical guide to ethical involvement in research with people with experience of forced migration.
- An experience-based artwork, derived from how the research results are interpreted by a professional artist.
- Training materials for researchers and organisations that want to work with involvement.
This project builds on research findings from a PhD project on involving forced migrants as co-researchers. The results are based on data from behavioural observations, focus group discussions and analyses of involvement processes.
The project will run during 2023 and 2024. The art work will be unveiled during autumn 2024.
Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt
About the art piece:
The artist and composer Anna Haglund, in collaboration with the research group CHAP, Uppsala University, has created a sound art piece that, with a focus on co-creation and participation, examines care and trust.
When do you feel like a human being? During 2023–2024, Anna Haglund has been an artist-in-residence in the research group CHAP (Child Health and Parenting) at Uppsala University. Based primarily on Elin Inge's research on emotional and ethical factors in co-creative research, the interactive sound art piece “In(ter)vention: I felt like a human being” was created.
In the work, Anna Haglund explores how we can create spaces where care, trust and listening can take place and form the basis for interpersonal coexistence. What happens to us when we find ourselves in situations that require our presence as human beings, beyond our social or professional roles?
Project Team
Elin Inge, PhD student
Anna Haglund, Artist
Helena Conning, Communicator
Georgina Warner, Associate professor
Nimo Elmi & Yasmin Cumar, Co-researchers with lived experience
Anna Sarkadi, Professor
Contact
Reach out to Elin Inge with questions regarding this project.