Past Projects
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Youth Photovoice
October 28, 2011The youth Photovoice project is the continuation of our previous adult Photovoice project, Visual Voices: Neighbourhood and Health. Photovoice is a community-based participatory research method (CBPR) which uses photography and storytelling to engage participants in expressing their experiences.
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Exploring the Link between Neighbourhood and Newcomer Immigrant Health: A Qualitative Study
September 30, 2011This qualitative research study was conducted in St. James Town. It examined both “place-based” characteristics of SJT and individual-level factors, including newcomer immigrants’ perceptions of the neighbourhood, their social relations, and their access to health and social services in the neighbourhood.
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Concept Mapping: Advancing the Photo Voice Projects to a New Level
September 28, 2011The Concept Mapping Project began in June and builds on the work of the Photo Voice Project. Concept mapping is a collaborative research and reporting method that helps community members organize and prioritize group information. Using photos from the Photo Voice Project, the SJT Initiative is pioneering the use of the concept mapping software with visual information combined with written statements.
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Community Mapping
August 28, 2011Community Mapping is a cartographic (map-making) practice rooted in the assumption that those who live in particular places have special knowledge of those places that outsiders do not share. Community mapping encourages ordinary people who don’t have easy access to political processes to come together to investigate and record significant aspects of their neighbourhood and their relationship to it.
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Visual Voices: Neighbourhood and Health
July 30, 2011Photographs are powerful storytellers. Photovoice captures people’s experiences and gives them a voice by having them photograph things that are important to them, and then tell the stories of why these things are important. In this project, 27 residents and visitors used Photovoice to create understanding and share messages about how the social and physical characteristics of the St. James Town neighbourhood are affecting the health and well-being of its residents.
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Towards Recycling in North St. James Town
June 28, 2011The overall goal of this study was to investigate and understand the factors that prevent and/or facilitate residents from recycling household waste. To achieve this goal, we investigated the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of adult residents of North St. James Town.
