{"id":543,"date":"2024-04-15T10:53:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T17:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imhablog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2024-04-15T10:53:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T17:53:56","slug":"visualising-inclusive-research-excellence-visualiser-lexcellence-en-recherche-inclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/imhablog\/2024\/04\/15\/visualising-inclusive-research-excellence-visualiser-lexcellence-en-recherche-inclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualising Inclusive Research Excellence \/ Visualiser l\u2019excellence en recherche inclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le fran\u00e7ais suit \/ French follows<\/em><\/p>\n

Q&A with: Adriana Contreras and Michelle Buchholz<\/p>\n

Edited by: Dr. Hetty Mulhall<\/p>\n

Categorizing research initiatives is often unavoidable. When developing the IMHA Inclusive Research Excellence prizes, for example, we have stepped out of traditional research silos to embrace a more inclusive concept of research across six domains: Indigenous Health Research, Open Science, Research Impact, Team Science, Patient Engagement and Implementation Science. The intention is for these to be cross-cutting, but in reality, it is difficult to emphasise this interconnectivity sufficiently through words alone.<\/p>\n

IMHA worked with Artist Adriana Contreras<\/a>, with the support of Indigenous researcher and artist Michelle Buchholz<\/a>, to develop an illustration that highlights\u00a0 the elements of this initiative and enables us to embody inclusivity in future communications. Learn about the meaning of this piece, through the Q&A below.<\/p>\n

\"Artwork<\/a><\/p>\n

Q: How did you build an initial concept for this artwork?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A: We began by focusing on the aspirational spirit of the prizes and the commitment to uplifting and supporting inclusive research. We highlighted elements that are already happening in the field but may not be widely known, and others that express the desire for a deeper commitment to equity.<\/p>\n

We brought in imagery usually associated with research, like the computer, graphs, and books, and built in conceptual elements from the research prize domains. We wanted to highlight the importance of looking closely at information beyond the surface, and maintaining a systemic approach to understanding the micro and macro of the aspects of data that are available. This is represented by the magnifying glass on the left side.<\/p>\n

It was an important part of the process for us to be able to meet up in a casual space and to chat over a coffee about how this visual could best represent the research themes. In Indigenous communities, many great ideas and much work is done at the kitchen table, especially amongst Indigenous women. It\u2019s often overlooked that conversations and spaces held in an informal way can produce the best stories and create connection and relationship.<\/p>\n

Q: Can you speak about the people in the artwork?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A: We wanted to extend an invitation to expand the understanding of who is involved in research and to think beyond individuals who are commonly part of the academic spaces. The drawing shows conversation circles where everyone can connect at the same level and everyone is invited to put their ideas forward. Their voices are equally valued and understood.<\/p>\n

The lived and living experience, cultural practices and knowledge people bring to the research process and values, addressing and ideally removing hierarchy, power imbalance and \u2018othering\u2019 in general. People don\u2019t fit in one box, a lot of people who are patient partners also consider themselves researchers and the other way around. We aimed to bring an intersectional approach to representing diversity, to show that people are a combination of all different elements of their being.<\/p>\n

Q: We\u2019ve spoken quite a bit about knowledge translation. How has that been shown here?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The dandelion is a very resilient plant that travels well, propagating itself through its seeds that take flight finding fertile ground.\u00a0 We included it in the visual to express how research can also propagate from a small idea and depending on the\u00a0 environment where it finds itself, it grows in a different way each time. The strong dandelion roots are meant to represent how research and science are deep-rooted in evidence.<\/p>\n

The two children in the drawing speak to intergenerational knowledge transmission, the importance of creating conditions that nurture meaningful participation of parents and people who care for children, breaking the silos around age, and around expertise and knowledge.<\/p>\n

The image also highlights the importance of humanising people in the research space and considering career barriers people can experience if they chose to have children, seeing the importance of caregiving as a part of research too.<\/p>\n

Q: Nature plays a key element in other ways, please can you explain these?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A:\u00a0 The plants are meant to situate us geographically: the cedar branch on the West Coast, the cherry branch on the East Coast, and the gold thread in the Arctic.<\/p>\n

Indigenous medicines are integral to cultural safety and invite Indigenous people into a space. Cedar is a sacred medicine and it can be cleansing.<\/p>\n

The inclusion of these elements in the visual are also an invitation to ask: Where do we want the research to be rooted? Who does this research benefit? Who are we accountable to? What is our commitment?<\/p>\n

Q: Lastly, how does the globe relate to the impact of research?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The globe symbolizes the implementation of the work and inclusion of\u00a0 different voices, from a local, regional and global level.\u00a0 It also represents the knowledge and expertise of immigrants\u00a0\u00a0 which provides different ways of understanding science and research and how that is brought into research in Turtle Island . It\u2019s a constant stream of knowledge that flows in and out, having an impact globally.<\/p>\n

The two arches\u00a0 are the ripple effects of how research starts with something small and continues to grow. It also represents a feedback loop: research goes out into the world and comes back in a different way to continue feeding and transforming the process.<\/p>\n

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Visualiser l\u2019excellence en recherche inclusive<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Il est souvent in\u00e9vitable de cat\u00e9goriser les initiatives de recherche. Par exemple, lors de l\u2019\u00e9laboration des prix de l\u2019IALA des IRSC pour la promotion de l\u2019inclusion dans le concept d\u2019excellence en recherche, nous sommes sortis des cloisonnements traditionnels de la recherche pour adopter un concept plus inclusif dans six domaines\u00a0: la recherche sur la sant\u00e9 des Autochtones, la science ouverte, les retomb\u00e9es de la recherche, la recherche collective, la mobilisation des patients et la science de la mise en \u0153uvre. L\u2019intention est de les rendre transversaux, mais en r\u00e9alit\u00e9, il est difficile d\u2019insister suffisamment sur cette interconnexion par les mots seulement.<\/p>\n

L\u2019IALA a collabor\u00e9 avec l\u2019artiste Adriana\u00a0Contreras<\/a>, avec le soutien de la chercheuse et artiste autochtone Michelle\u00a0Buchholz<\/a>, dans le but de concevoir une illustration qui fait ressortir les \u00e9l\u00e9ments de cette initiative et qui nous permet d\u2019incarner l\u2019inclusivit\u00e9 dans nos communications. D\u00e9couvrez la signification de cette \u0153uvre ci-dessous.<\/p>\n

\"L\u2019IALA<\/a><\/p>\n

Q\u00a0: Comment avez-vous \u00e9labor\u00e9 le concept de cette \u0153uvre d\u2019art?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

R\u00a0: Nous avons commenc\u00e9 par mettre l\u2019accent sur l\u2019esprit ambitieux des prix et sur l\u2019engagement \u00e0 encourager et soutenir la recherche inclusive. Nous avons mis en \u00e9vidence des \u00e9l\u00e9ments qui existent d\u00e9j\u00e0 sur le terrain, mais qui ne sont peut-\u00eatre pas tr\u00e8s connus, et d\u2019autres qui expriment le d\u00e9sir d\u2019un engagement profond en faveur de l\u2019\u00e9quit\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Nous avons int\u00e9gr\u00e9 des images g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement associ\u00e9es \u00e0 la recherche, comme l\u2019ordinateur, les graphiques et les livres, et ce, en plus d\u2019int\u00e9grer des \u00e9l\u00e9ments conceptuels issus des domaines des prix de recherche. Nous souhaitions souligner l\u2019importance d\u2019examiner avec soin l\u2019information, au-del\u00e0 des apparences, et d\u2019adopter une d\u00e9marche syst\u00e9mique visant \u00e0 comprendre divers aspects des donn\u00e9es accessibles, tant \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle micro que macro. Le tout est repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 par la loupe \u00e0 gauche.<\/p>\n

Il \u00e9tait important pour nous de pouvoir nous rencontrer dans une atmosph\u00e8re d\u00e9contract\u00e9e et de discuter autour d\u2019un caf\u00e9 de la mani\u00e8re dont cette image pourrait repr\u00e9senter au mieux les th\u00e8mes de recherche. Dans les communaut\u00e9s autochtones, beaucoup de grandes id\u00e9es et de travail sont r\u00e9alis\u00e9s \u00e0 la table de la cuisine, en particulier par les femmes autochtones. On oublie souvent que les conversations et les espaces organis\u00e9s de mani\u00e8re informelle peuvent produire les meilleures histoires, en plus de cr\u00e9er des liens et des relations.<\/p>\n

Q\u00a0: Pouvez-vous nous parler des personnes qui figurent dans l\u2019\u0153uvre d\u2019art?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

R\u00a0: Le but \u00e9tait de permettre de bien comprendre qui est concern\u00e9 par la recherche et de penser au-del\u00e0 des personnes qui, en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, font partie des espaces universitaires. Le dessin montre des cercles de conversation o\u00f9 tout le monde est au m\u00eame niveau et o\u00f9 chacun est invit\u00e9 \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter ses id\u00e9es. Leurs voix sont appr\u00e9ci\u00e9es et comprises en toute \u00e9galit\u00e9.<\/p>\n

En fait, il s\u2019agit de l\u2019exp\u00e9rience concr\u00e8te, des pratiques culturelles et des connaissances que les personnes apportent au processus de recherche et aux valeurs, en abordant et, id\u00e9alement, en supprimant la hi\u00e9rarchie, le d\u00e9s\u00e9quilibre du pouvoir et l\u2019\u00ab\u00a0alt\u00e9rit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. Les gens ne rentrent pas tous dans le m\u00eame moule. Par exemple, de nombreux patients partenaires se consid\u00e8rent \u00e9galement comme des chercheurs et vice versa. Nous avons cherch\u00e9 \u00e0 adopter une approche intersectionnelle pour repr\u00e9senter la diversit\u00e9 afin de montrer que les personnes sont une combinaison de tous les \u00e9l\u00e9ments de leur \u00eatre.<\/p>\n

Q\u00a0: Nous avons beaucoup parl\u00e9 de l\u2019application des connaissances. Comment la d\u00e9montre-t-on ici?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Le pissenlit est une plante tr\u00e8s r\u00e9sistante qui voyage bien, se propageant par ses graines qui s\u2019envolent pour trouver une terre fertile. Nous l\u2019avons inclus dans l\u2019image pour montrer que la recherche peut aussi se propager \u00e0 partir d\u2019une petite id\u00e9e et que, selon le milieu dans lequel elle se trouve, elle se d\u00e9veloppe de mani\u00e8re diff\u00e9rente. Les fortes racines du pissenlit sont cens\u00e9es repr\u00e9senter la mani\u00e8re dont la recherche et la science sont profond\u00e9ment ancr\u00e9es dans les faits.<\/p>\n

Les deux enfants du dessin \u00e9voquent la transmission des connaissances entre les g\u00e9n\u00e9rations, l\u2019importance de cr\u00e9er des conditions propices \u00e0 une participation significative des parents et des personnes qui s\u2019occupent des enfants, ainsi que l\u2019\u00e9limination du cloisonnement associ\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge, \u00e0 l\u2019expertise et aux connaissances.<\/p>\n

L\u2019image souligne \u00e9galement l\u2019importance d\u2019humaniser les personnes dans l\u2019espace de la recherche et de tenir compte des obstacles professionnels li\u00e9s au choix d\u2019avoir des enfants, en consid\u00e9rant l\u2019importance de la prestation de soins comme faisant \u00e9galement partie de la recherche.<\/p>\n

Q\u00a0: La nature tient un r\u00f4le cl\u00e9 \u00e0 d\u2019autres \u00e9gards; pouvez-vous les expliquer?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

R\u00a0: Les plantes nous situent sur le plan g\u00e9ographique\u00a0: la branche de c\u00e8dre sur la c\u00f4te ouest, la branche de cerisier sur la c\u00f4te est et le fil d\u2019or dans l\u2019Arctique.<\/p>\n

Les m\u00e9dicaments autochtones font partie int\u00e9grante de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 culturelle et invitent les Autochtones dans un espace. Le c\u00e8dre est un m\u00e9dicament sacr\u00e9 qui a des propri\u00e9t\u00e9s purificatrices.<\/p>\n

De plus, l\u2019inclusion de ces \u00e9l\u00e9ments dans l\u2019image invite \u00e0 poser des questions\u00a0: O\u00f9 voulons-nous que la recherche soit ancr\u00e9e? \u00c0 qui profite cette recherche? \u00c0 qui devons-nous rendre des comptes? Comment y participe-t-on?<\/p>\n

Q\u00a0: Enfin, quel est le lien entre le globe et l\u2019incidence de la recherche?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Le globe symbolise la mise en \u0153uvre du travail et l\u2019inclusion de diff\u00e9rentes voix sur le plan local, r\u00e9gional et mondial. Il repr\u00e9sente \u00e9galement les connaissances et l\u2019expertise des immigrants qui offrent diff\u00e9rentes fa\u00e7ons de comprendre la science et la recherche, ainsi que la mani\u00e8re \u00e0 laquelle elles sont int\u00e9gr\u00e9es dans la recherche sur l\u2019\u00cele de la Tortue. Il s\u2019agit d\u2019un flux constant de connaissances qui entrent et sortent, et qui ont une incidence \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle mondiale.<\/p>\n

Les deux arcs repr\u00e9sentent l\u2019effet d\u2019entra\u00eenement de la recherche, qui commence par quelque chose de petit qui, ensuite, se met \u00e0 \u00e9voluer. On y voit \u00e9galement une boucle de r\u00e9troaction\u00a0: la recherche est diffus\u00e9e dans le monde et revient sous une forme diff\u00e9rente pour continuer \u00e0 alimenter et \u00e0 transformer le processus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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