artem research collective
REIMAGINING ARTS-BASED AND COMMUNITY RESEARCH
ABOUT US
Arte in Spanish means art, but beyond that it means a craft, something that requires a skill, a method, cleverness, and overall passion. This idea, coupled with Artemis, the Greek goddess of hunt and strength, inspired the name of our collective as it means excitement and creativity in research. Artem, focuses on research that centres the will to use arts and creativity into the process to promote healthier, safer spaces with/for strong and resilient communities of research practice. Our purpose is to stimulate empirical work that utilises arts-based research, creativity and collaboration to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable communities in society. Our collective demonstrates that creative methods can transcend the boundaries of disciplines and within disciplines. As a group, we seek to develop holistic perspectives by integrating different theoretical and empirical disciplinary perspectives, thereby creating new frameworks to understand problems for the purposes of developing solutions for a more just world.
TEAM
NATALIA BALYASNIKOVA
York University
(Canada)
Natalia draws on creative research methods to understand the complexity of learning processes in later adulthood. Namely, using narrative ethnographic methods, she merges traditional ethnographic data generation with facilitation of oral, written, and multimodal storytelling. By analyzing learning that occurs at the intersection of ageing and immigration, her work suggests new pathways of community-based curriculum and educational policy.
MELANIE WONG
University of British Columbia
(Canada)
Melanie is an K-12 educator, teacher educator and researcher. Her scholarship explores K-12 English Language Learners in technology-enhanced classrooms. Melanie is passionate about K-12 teacher education and improving learning in classrooms. In particular, she is developing ways to take up arts-based participatory methods to better understand her younger participants’ learning experiences.
MEGHAN KUMAR
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
(UK)
Meghan is a global health economist, researcher, musician and explorer. Having worked on four continents, she has been based in Nairobi for the last decade. Her work incorporates participatory action research for quality improvement in healthcare and she is developing arts-based participatory methods for improved sustainability of healthcare interventions.
YECID ORTEGA
Queen's University Belfast
(UK)
Yecid is an avant-garde researcher interested in social justice and critical language education. He approaches research through ethnographic and audio-visual methods to understand how cultures and languages intersect in the cities we inhabit. He currently works on various projects related to tattoos as multiliteracy practices and the mapping of linguistic soundscapes.
Artem collective in action