Participatory PhotoMapping in Communitybased Health and Place Research

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Participatory Photo-Mappingin Community-based
Health and Place Research

• David Brown, PhD

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Colleagues

• Samuel Dennis, Jr. (PhD, ASLA)
  
  Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape
  Architecture University of
  Wisconsin-Madison
• Suzanne Gaulocher (MA, MPH)
  
  PhD Candidate, Nelson Institute in
  Environment and Resources, University of
  Wisconsin-Madison
• Richard M. Carpiano (PhD)
  
  Assistant Professor of Sociology, University
  of British Columbia

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Participatory Photo Mapping (PPM)

• PPM is the integration of a set of tools that
  help people explore their lived experience of
  health and place and for communicating this
  experience to people who share a common goal of
  addressing health and building community
• Using PPM helps to uncover opportunities and
  barriers related to using the built and social
  environment for healthy daily living
• Our goal is to use PPM to develop and design
  collaborative projects to improve health and
  well-being of communities by gathering and
  sharing information with community members and
  public health decision-makers
• PPM is well suited to participatory
  community-based health research

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Participatory Community-based health research

• Focused on particular community setting
• e.g., where people live, work, or study
• Generates findings that folks in the setting can
  use to improve it
• Problem defined by the folks, as are the
  solutions (experts in setting)
• Folks involved in data collection in a way that
  results in transfer of practical skills
• Facilitated by researchers (experts in method),
  who gain insights they can share more broadly

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How PPM came to be

• Developed as a result of a lucky convergence of
  opportunities and interests in Madison, Wisconsin
• South Madison residents identified need for more
  information on community safety in terms of
  spatial layout, and wanted to engage youth in
  process
• UW Dept of Family Medicine obtained funding from
  the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to pilot new
  approaches to community-based health research
• Interested UW researchers with diverse
  backgrounds and skills
• Everyone was willing to work together

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Interviews
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Theory and Methods

• Lived experience of health and place
• - What is that?
• - What forms does it take?
• - How are these communicated?
• - What methods might be useful?

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PPM Foundations

• Theory of lived experience of place
• Locations
• Images
• Events
• Interactions

• Corresponding research methods

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PPM Foundations

• Theory of lived experience of place
• Locations
• Images
• Events
• Interactions

• Corresponding research methods
• Maps

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PPM Foundations

• Theory of lived experience of place
• Locations
• Images
• Events
• Interactions

• Corresponding research methods
• Maps
• Photography

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PPM Foundations

• Theory of lived experience of place
• Locations
• Images
• Events
• Interactions

• Corresponding research methods
• Maps
• Photography
• Narratives

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PPM Foundations

• Theory of lived experience of place
• Locations
• Images
• Events
• Interactions

• Corresponding research methods
• Maps
• Photography
• Narratives
• Networks

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PPM Foundations

• Theory of lived experience of place
• Locations
• Images
• Events
• Interactions

• Corresponding research methods
• Maps
• Photography
• Narratives
• Networks
• Readily used and interpreted by participants

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Data integration Layering
Map
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• Whose map, for what purpose?
• Who controls the process? Who is left out?
• Whose voice counts? Who is silenced?
• Whose reality is expressed?
• Who is empowered? Who is disempowered?

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Data integration Layering
Photos
Map
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Data integration Layering
Stories
Photos
Map
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Healthy or Unhealthy?
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Thats Chriss hoop. This is in the back of
someone's house. We dunk and stuff on that. I
like to play ball here. This is a safe place.
Their mom and grandma own both the buildings. I
feel safe when they are around.
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Meadowridge Library Thats the name of the
neighborhood. Meadowridge is next to Meadowood.
Its a safe place to hang out with friends and do
homework and study. Use the computers. I wanted
to get the Ace Hardware in the picture. I took
this because if you are having trouble finding
your parents you have a place to go to ask for
help. You dont have to run inside a random
house, you can go into a store or library. I
use the library to use the computers. Some of the
computers you need to have a number to use them
and its usually your birthday. Some have time
limits, some dont. I search for interesting
things sometimes math homework. Sometimes people
go on game sites. Chat with friends. Each week
they have DDR or chess tournament in the back
room in the library. You get to hang out with
your friends and stay out of trouble. Its safe
and fun. There are Spanish materials and people
who work at the Library who speak Spanish. If
someone is making trouble they get kicked out.
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Data integration Layering
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• Social Networks
• Constructing individual youth networks how the
  built environment supports or hinders
  socialization and other opportunities
• Mapping community organization networks
  examining broader community capacity for health
  and safety promotion

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Data integration Layering
GIS
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Data integration Layering
GIS
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Data integration Layering
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- Communicate, Change
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- Builds on

• Partner
• Engage
• Transfer

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Participatory Photo Mapping

• Partner
• Engage
• Transfer

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Interviews
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Workshop (June 09) support provided by

• The BC Child and Youth Health Research Network
• The Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth
  Consortium, UBC School of Nursing
• The Community Based Research Hub, BC Mental
  Health and Addictions Research Network
• BC Mental Health and Addiction Services (PHSA)
• UBC Department of Sociology

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Purpose of June workshop and meetings

• Introduce approach and generate local interest
• Explore potential projects
• Explore expansion of PPM to include network
  analysis

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Emerging Initiatives

• Potential for an east downtown project
• Effort to develop skill transfer to other
  researchers
• UW-Madison
• Vancouver
• Project with youth cyclists in Rochester NY
• Led by pediatrician interested in injury
  prevention

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For more information
Dennis S, Gaulocher S, Carpiano R, Brown D.
Participatory photo mapping (PPM) Exploring an
integrated method for health and place research
with young people. Health and Place 2009,
15(2)466-73.
www.la.wisc.edu/ppm
dbrown3_at_cw.bc.ca