Folks may be interested in the following solicitation, as well as the conference in general. This "call for products" is in regards to a particular session that has been accepted at the conference, and welcomes participants to share their findings and materials. Link to conference in general is at the bottom.
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Call for Products!   Beyond the journal article: Participatory research to engage with a larger public and "travel" across place

Connecting People, Participation and Place:  1^st international conference of participatory geographies   Durham, UK, 14-15 January 2008

Session organizers: Pamela Wridt, University of Colorado & Caitlin Cahill, University of Utah

Participants are invited to "show and tell" research products/presentations developed through participatory projects. Please e-mail Pamela.Wridt@colorado.edu if you are interested to participate.

"Beyond the journal article: Participatory research to engage with a larger public and "travel" across place"

This interactive session and/or workshop will focus upon participatory research presentations beyond the journal article with a particular focus upon place-based research. All are invited to share their participatory research presentations. We want to engage participants in a lively and critical discussion on the joys, challenges, and ethical issues associated with the production of products developed through participatory collaborations, such as videos, websites, digital media, and online guides/books.  Participants will showcase a broad spectrum of research presentations. Critical questions we hope to address include issues of representation, technicality, and ethics including:  

• How does participatory research speak back to misrepresentations?
• How can our research products be relevant to both local and global audiences? In other words, how can our research "travel" across place?
• Who are the intended audiences of participatory research?
• How can we effectively communicate to multiple audiences?
• Who is made vulnerable by the research? how to protect and advocate for those most impacted by our research?
• what are the ethical and practical challenges and opportunities of developing non-academic resources?  
• What notions of ownership, if any, were contested within your particular setting/institutional context, and/or among participants?

This workshop will provide a space for discussing strategies for creating research that is "of use" –a vehicle for social and political change.

For more information about Connecting People, Participation and Place:  1^st international conference of participatory geographies    http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/Conf/Default.aspx?alias=www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/cppp

Pamela Wridt, Ph.D.
Associate Chair
Department of Planning and Design
College of Architecture and Planning
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Campus Box 126, PO Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364

Pamela.wridt@cudenver.edu
303-556-3472 (phone)
303-556-3687 (fax)

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Caitlin Cahill, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Utah
Community Studies
225 South 1400 East, Room 228
Alfred Emery Building
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0080

(801)585-0437
caitlin.cahill@csbs.utah.edu
www.fed-up-honeys.org