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Through the Lens of the Youth: Exploring Culturally Relevant Physical Activity with a Northern Aboriginal Community Through Participatory Action Research
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Guided by an overarching participatory action research framework, this research explored physical activity within the sociocultural context of northern Aboriginal communities. I worked in partnership with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation Community Wellness Program in the Northwest Territories,...
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2020-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: The objectives of the proposed project are twofold: (1) to build understandings of how youth in care and their formal mentors experience mentoring relationships, and (2) to examine the feasibility and perceived impacts of engaging in participatory research processes (more...
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Student Perceptions of Participating in a Mindfulness-Based Program in School: A Photovoice-Informed Case Study
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Wellbeing in school-aged children is a systemic and growing public health concern throughout Canada and abroad. School-based health promotion initiatives which utilize a Comprehensive School Health (CSH) approach are one way to address this problem. Research using a CSH approach continues to...
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Reimagining Craft as Alternate Sustainable Community Pathways: A Community-based Participatory Exploration of Degrowth
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From beekeeping to brewing, Alberta’s craft food sector offers potential provisionary pathways toward degrowth. While many sustainable development policies are fuelled by beliefs in ecological modernisation or green growth, degrowth scholars criticize these approaches as offering empty promises...
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Photovoice as a Method for Revealing Community Perceptions of the Built and Social Environment
Download2011
Nykiforuk, Candace I.J., Nieuwendyk, Laura M. , Vallianatos, Helen
Over the last number of years there has been growing interest in the use of community-based participatory research (CBPR) for preventing and controlling complex public health problems. Photovoice is one of several qualitative methods utilized in CBPR, as it is a participatory method that has...
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2015
Nieuwendyk, Laura., Hammer, Brent , Vallianatos, Helen , Nykiforuk, Candace I.J.
Peoples’ perceptions of healthy eating are influenced by the cultural context in which they occur. Despite this general acceptance by health practitioners and social scientists, studies suggest that there remains a relative homogeneity around peoples’ perceptions that informs a hegemonic...
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2016-11-04
Nieuwendyk, Laura M., Vallianatos, Helen, Belon, Ana Paula, Nykiforuk, Candace I.J.
People's perceptions of local food environments influence their abilities to eat healthily. PhotoVoice participants from four communities in Alberta, Canada took pictures of barriers and opportunities for healthy eating and shared their stories in one-on-one semi-structured interviews. Using a...
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Participatory action research, learning in small peasant resistance and the politics of rural dispossession in Indonesia
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The agro-extractive regime pursued by the corporatized state and the pervasive expansion of capital accumulation has turned the rural frontier of Indonesia into an agrarian war zone. This is marked by the proliferation of serious challenges by small peasants and indigenous peoples who are ‘in the...
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Optimizing Health Literacy and Community Engagement in Relation to Active Living with Edmonton’s Newcomer Young People and their Families
Download2012
Dassanayake, J., Yohani, S., Mogale, R.S., Higginbottom, G., Richter, S., Vallianatos, H.
Canada is a multicultural country where immigration plays an important role in population growth and the country’s economy. Despite this, some newcomers such as those who hold refugee status, experience greater ill-health than the general population. Moreover, many immigrants and refugees (both...
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How perceptions of community environment influence health behaviours: using the Analysis Grid for Environments Linked to Obesity Framework as a mechanism for exploration
Download2016-09-01
Belon, A.P., Schopflocher, D., Nykiforuk, C.I., Plotnikoff, , Nieuwendyk, L.M., Raine, K.D., Vallianatos, H., Spence, J.C.
Introduction: Overweight and obesity are influenced by a complex interplay of individual and environmental factors that affect physical activity and healthy eating. Nevertheless, little has been reported on people's perceptions of those factors. Addressing this critical gap and community partner...