Shannon Walsh

Research

Research

Collaborative, arts-based research with young people on gender, health and social change.

TRANSFORM

Engaging with Young People for Social Change

Awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the partnership draws together more than 40 co-investigators and collaborators, 16 universities, 10 partner organizations and hundreds of young people, including those at field sites in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico and India.

TRANSFORM supports youth-led interventions to study how young people experience, envision and enact gender transformation, using photography, filmmaking and cellphilming, performance art and textile production, around gender-based violence, climate justice and 2SLGBTQIA+ activism.

Co-directors: Claudia Mitchell (McGill University), Relebohile Moletsane (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Shannon Walsh (University of British Columbia) and Lisa Starr (University of Lethbridge).

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DocUBC

Documentary, Arts-Based Methods and Social Justice

The DocUBC cluster brings together scholars, artists and students working on documentary, visual and arts-based methodologies for social change, deepening ties between documentary filmmakers and an interdisciplinary set of scholars and practitioners.

DocUBC is hosted at UBC Vancouver, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people.

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In My Life

Following young AIDS activists over time

A longitudinal study of an educational research project that followed participants from teenagers to adults over eighteen years, starting in 2002. It asks how experiences with arts-based research around HIV prevention stay with participants into adulthood, what the limits and potentials of such projects are, and how gender, class and race intersect with interventionist education.

Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The book In My Life (Jacana, 2022) and a short film come out of this work.

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For screenings, distribution, teaching and speaking. A full filmography and CV are available on request.

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