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Newham Community Researchers reflecting on their Community Reporting training
Please Report the Errrors?
Hi. My name is Emily Ahmed.
I'm the community peer researcher manager with new and public health and our, uh,
community peer research team.
Some of us have been today at the community reporting training
with not another co
production project and people's voices media.
And, uh, today we've been learning about how to use community reporting.
And this is something that we wanna use in our work.
So community reporting is a way of gathering stories, um, from the community
from people allowing them and enabling them to share their experiences.
Some of that could be using film or audio,
um, or photos.
Um,
but essentially that we're recording and and
documenting people's experiences and stories and using
that in a way that helps support change or to inform services or policy.
Um,
and just to ensure that people's experiences and
stories are told in their own voices,
how do you feel about maybe using community reporting in our work? I think, um,
for me, I it's quite a new concept, but it still relates,
uh, fits in really well with some of the work that we've been doing.
Um and I think it's quite exciting because using different mediums like
film audio. Um,
and
it just It just feels like a bit more of a, um uh,
a creative space that we can kind of capture people's,
um,
uh,
you know, feelings and thoughts about their stories.
Um, and I think it would be a really valuable
tool to use. I don't know. What?
What do you think?
No, I do think it's available, um,
to use as well, Especially since we can't really convert to emotion.
Sometimes people talk about the experiences, and then
they plan, and then just
then they get it out so you can't
exist.
What do you write?
You know, like language is just
but
its
character
language.
But there once. So sometimes you just see the expressions and emotion.
We're speaking about certain things.
It captures everything in all the nonverbal cues.
You can learn that and you can see it. And you can also reflect that
when you
when you're needing a we really looking back. Otherwise, you just have to
look down to rely on your memory. But if you have actual evidence,
also help
it up.
Sometimes you miss it up on things when you're writing.
Yeah, it's really interesting
and at that, because it's not just how we're asking, but it's how
how we're sharing that, like showing those emotions and showing their voices,
like you said.
And how do you feel?
As as the community researchers people, to maybe go out and do this,
how do you feel about maybe using this approach?
So filming audio recording
while you're interviewing people, How does how do you feel about that?
Yeah,
however, people be apprehensive about using
the video or their voices,
and some of them do ask, and they don't want things popping up.
So I had to
learn
to find them
the option of backing up any time.
But a lot of people got my video.
They know
that they do
it
from my personal experience.
Yeah, I
think, yeah, Like like Krasa
said. But then there's also the option of audio recording,
and even within your voice, you can really pick up new answers. So
you know how their voice is delivered. Um,
you know, like
it
just,
uh, just their pitch. Their their pace.
Um, how they you can pick up things like, you know, their mood, their emotions.
And I think it's, um a really powerful tool.
Yeah, either way or audio or or visual, and with visual, you can still pick up,
you know, non verbal cues, et cetera.
So
I
think that's, uh,
that's really, really useful.
And from the conversations we've been having today
as part of the training for community research,
what's really stuck out for you? What's been the thing that you've thought?
Oh,
I'm gonna remember that or I find that really interesting or I find it challenging.
Like, What's the thing that really stuck out for our conversation so far?
No digging,
digging
That's very
hard.
It's very hard to know when you're
police
sent back. You have to
think about
not to take some.
You don't want to
go into elaborate further which you have to respect. And then
yeah,
yeah, I would agree with that as well. No digging.
But, uh, I think open ended questions for me is a is a big one because then it can lead
anywhere.
It's got privacy vehicles people don't want.
It's kind of a bit scary. I mean, even I find
it's not as scary thinking. Oh,
look, which is out there?
I was being sketchy, but then?
Yeah.
So how? We do things ethically and make sure that people feel safe and
that there's confidentiality if there needs to be, but also
allowing people to share their stories if they feel safe to do so.
How about you, Ruby? Anything? Um, any last links with their consent?
You know, you you get their consent, uh, writing their consent form.
And I think, um, just allowing them to,
uh,
you know,
to understand that if it's a safe space where
their stories and their experiences are being shared,
um I mean, you know, they do have the option not to not to share if they don't want to.
So they have a choice just just laying that out for them just before
they start, really?
So that they can decide,
you know, how much or what they'd like to share.
OK,
and then what excites you the most?
Or what hope do you have for using community reporting
data?
So a lot of times you don't know information,
but if you go around asking about their experience, you might find
clues or possible if to
find a way out, you find out more information about us going around in your area and
what other people have used
And, uh, what's what's needed to get answers? We're not looking for
mhm.
Yeah, I think that's right.
And also like, like you say, qualitative and quantitative research.
So how how we pull that data, how we kind of sift through, like, you know,
read between the lines and just find out exactly what what's been going on.
What people's experiences
are brilliant. All right. Thank you, guys.
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