Post-conflict lived experience through participatory visual methods (DEMOCRACY-07)

I develop participatory visual methodologies that function as qualitative research tools to generate and articulate lived experience within research and innovation projects. These approaches support community-engaged research by enabling participants to produce visual and narrative material grounded in their own perspectives, particularly in complex and sensitive social contexts.

My work focuses on structuring how social perspectives are captured, interpreted, and translated into formats that engage researchers and communities, and enable dialogue with policy stakeholders. This includes the development of visual and narrative outputs—such as exhibitions, publications, and hybrid formats—that support dialogue, reflection, and policy-relevant communication.

This approach is grounded in field-based work with youth and women in marginalised and post-conflict contexts, including ongoing, locally initiated collaboration with women in Northern Uganda, as well as participatory projects in highly segregated urban environments in Sweden.

The aim is to contribute to research processes that not only generate qualitative knowledge, but also support how this knowledge is articulated, communicated, and mobilised within policy and societal contexts.

What I bring to the consortium

• Design and implementation of participatory visual methodologies in sensitive and post-conflict contexts

• Generation of structured qualitative knowledge grounded in lived experience

• Development of participant-led visual and narrative materials as qualitative research outputs grounded in lived experience

• Translation of insights into formats that support stakeholder dialogue and inform policy discussions

• Design of dissemination strategies and outputs (DEM) aligned with research processes

• Contribution to frameworks connecting co-creation, knowledge production, and communication

Role in the project

I can contribute as:

• Methodological partner in participatory and community-engaged research

• Work Package leader or contributor in citizen engagement, co-creation, or dissemination

• Lead or co-lead of dissemination and communication (DEM), ensuring coherence between research processes and outputs

• Contributor to proposal development, particularly in strengthening participatory and engagement components