Pacific Meets Atlantic, Research Meets Policy: Session 2

March 13, 2025

Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM PST/1 - 2:30 PM EST/2 - 3:30 PM AST

Location: Zoom (The link will be sent out one day prior to the event.)

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On March 13th we will gather once again with our colleagues from the Pacific and the Atlantic coasts and places in between for a second event that will explore the complexities that can arise around respectful, barrier-free compensation to individuals who contribute to community-engaged research.

Historically, community members have been compensated in ways that can undermine their invaluable knowledge and expertise that contributes to research. This includes, for example, providing participants with gift cards or token amounts as payment. When compensation is provided, payments can take a long time to process, forms can ask for invasive information (ie SIN) and include assumptions that perpetuate colonial principles. An institution’s treatment of research compensation as income rather than honorarium can also jeopardize the income stream for those relying on income assistance. Lastly, such payment methods can be culturally inappropriate and possibly harmful and traumatizing to community participants.

In this conversation we invite participants to consider such questions as:

How can community play a larger role in shaping new systems of compensation and setting fair rates?
How have you or your institution been able to do this well?

Please join us on March 13th where we will engage in an informal opportunity to discuss and share ideas and experiences concerning how we as community-engaged researchers can be at our best with our community partners and fully engage with them in a manner consistent with their context and experience.

Speakers

Shahad Al-Saqqar

Strategic Manager for Community-Engaged Research, McMaster University

Shahad Al-Saqqar is a community-engaged, progressive thinking professional with a strong understanding of the Hamilton community and experience in teaching, research, and project management with community agencies, grassroots organizations, and educational institutions. Shahad is the Strategic Manager for Community-Engaged Research at McMaster University's Office of Community Engagement. In this role she works with McMaster faculty and Hamilton communities to develop and nurture initiatives that support the capacity building for community-engaged research. Shahad works to strengthen existing campus-community research partnerships and building new opportunities for collaboration.

Liza Bautista

Director, Neighbourhood Equity and Employment Programs, South Vancouver Neighbourhood House

Liza is the Director of Neighbourhood Equity and Employment Programs South Vancouver Neighbourhood House (SVNH) which is a community-based organization offering programs and services in the South Vancouver catchment. Despite its rich cultural tapestry, South Vancouver has historically lacked equitable resource allocation and representation. With more than 80 percent of its residents being racialized individuals and families, SVNH saw an urgency to address disparities in these communities and ensure that more resources and funding are directed toward South Vancouver neighbourhoods.

Liza is originally from the Philippines where she came to Canada as a Live-in Caregiver via Hong Kong in 1991. Liza was a political science student when she left Philippines and in Canada had the opportunity to complete instructional diploma as well as leadership, settlement and employment certificate programs. Liza utilized her lived migration experience of the precarious and marginalized occupation as a Caregiver/Domestic Worker to design life skills and employment programs for the marginalized and underrepresented populations (refugees, refugee claimants, underemployed professionals, women, caregivers, temporary foreign workers, multi-barriered and neurodivergent clients).

Phillip Joy

Assistant Professor, Mount Saint Vincent University

Phillip Joy is a registered dietitian with the Nova Scotia Dietetic Association (NSDA) with a focus on gender, sexuality within nutrition, dietetics, and health. Phillip's research is qualitative and is often framed within poststructural and social constructivist frameworks. Phillip also employs arts-based methodologies, such as photovoice, cell-philming, and comics. These methodologies have the potential to disrupt traditional foundations of nutrition and health research by engaging emotions, the senses, creativity, and the bodies of participants. Art can challenge and subvert social norms, contributing to social transformation by expressing new perspectives.

Phillip's main areas of research include:

LGBTQ+ nutrition, body image, and health
Community advocacy and social disruption
Pedagogy, curriculum, and training

Agenda

10:00 AM - 10:05 AM - Welcome

10:05 AM - 10:13 AM - Shahad Al-Saqqar

10:13 AM - 10:20 AM - Phillip Joy

10:20 AM - 10:45 AM - Breakout Session #1

10:45 AM - 10:55 AM - Liza Bautista

10:55 AM - 11:05 AM - Reflections

11:05 AM - 11:20 AM - Breakout Session #2

11:20 AM - 11:30 AM - Closing

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