FULL: Online ISSR Summer Methodology Workshops | Critical Narrative Research and Intervention: Digital Storytelling | Aline Gubrium & Alice Fiddian-Green

Visual and digital research methodologies expand the forms and sources of information that can inform social science research, and create new possibilities for data analysis and research communication. For participatory and critical researchers, they offer a powerful array of tools for stakeholder engagement in producing and consuming knowledge about the social world.

In this three-day (12-hour) workshop we begin with an orientation to introduce the digital storytelling process, discuss how digital storytelling may serve as a tool for critical narrative research and intervention, and examine ethical implications of bringing personal stories into the public realm (www.storycenter.org). You will serve as a “research participant” within the workshop itself. Hands-on activities will include expressive writing and talking activities, a story circle, script writing, voiceover recording, and digitally editing a cut of a digital story. The workshop will end with a story screening, where the digital stories are screened and you present and discuss your stories with one another as a group.

Instructors: Aline Gubrium & Alice Fiddian-Green

Aline Gubrium is a Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Policy in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at UMass Amherst. Her scholarship centers on reproductive and sexual health inequities, specifically focused on ethnic minority adolescent and emerging adult parents and their families. As a medical anthropologist working in the field of community health education, her research lies at the intersection of ethnographic and narrative research and critical narrative intervention. Dr. Gubrium (along with Elizabeth Krause in Anthropology) was funded by the Ford Foundation for the Hear Our Stories: Diasporic Youth for Sexual Rights and Justice project, which assessed digital storytelling as a narrative intervention to promote sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice in collaboration with young pregnant and parenting Latinas. Her NIH-funded study A Culture-Centered Narrative Approach for Health Promotion pilot tested the use of digital storytelling for sexual and reproductive health promotion with nulliparous, pregnant, and/or parenting young Latinas to positively impact sexual health and psychosocial outcomes. Dr. Gubrium currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator on the NIH-funded MOCHA Moving Forward: A CBPR Investigation of Chronic Disease Prevention in Older, Low-Income African-American Men study, which takes a CBPR approach to evaluate the effectiveness of a narratively enhanced intervention in lowering stress and risk of chronic diseases among men of color. Dr. Gubrium's 2013 and 2015 books (along with colleagues Krista Harper and Marty Otanez, both in Anthropology) explain participatory visual and digital methodologies for social research, health promotion and practice, and advocacy.

Alice Fiddian-Green is Assistant Professor of Public Health in the School of Nursing and Health Professions at the University of San Francisco. Alice specializes in the application and analysis of qualitative digital and visual research methods to examine inequities as they pertain to reproductive health and justice. She uses community-engaged public health storytelling methods to research the intersections of substance use, mental health, and trauma (interpersonal, structural, and institutional) among pregnant people and mothers with opioid and other substance use disorders. Alice has been certified by StoryCenter as a Digital Storytelling facilitator since 2014, and has co-facilitated and worked on digital storytelling projects in a range of academic and community settings.

Questions? For more information about this or any of the ISSR Summer Methodology Workshops, please contact ISSR's Director of Research Methods Programs, Jessica Pearlman (jpearlman@issr.umass.edu).

THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL AND REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. Please contact Jessica Pearlman (jpearlman@issr.umass.edu) to be placed on the waitlist.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION | 12-HOUR WORKSHOP

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Five College Students and Faculty

• Five College Undergraduate and Graduate Students:  $150/person
• Five College Faculty & Staff:  $250/person

Non-Five College Students and Faculty

• Non-Five College Undergraduate and Graduate Students:  $275/person
• Non-Five College Faculty, Staff & Other Professionals:  $400/person

Registration note: The Five Colleges include: UMass Amherst, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, and Smith College. Registration closes for each workshop 2 full business days prior to the start date. If paying with departmental funds or personal checks, contact Sue Falcetti (sfalcetti@umass.edu).

Cancellation note: In cases where enrollment is 5 or less, we reserve the right to cancel the workshop.  In cases where the registrant cancels prior to the workshop, a full refund will be given with two weeks notice, and 50% refund will be given with one week notice.  We will not be able to refund in cases where registrant does not notify us of cancellation at least one week prior to the beginning date of the workshop.