In 2024, KT Connects is focusing on open science — the practice of making scientific inputs, outputs, and processes freely available to all with minimal restrictions.
Open science and community-based research are complementary. They both stem from the recognition of needed change to the ‘status quo’, and that requires collective efforts. For 2S/LGBTQQIA+ health research, community-based approaches to research are vitally important. They bring to life the motto “nothing about us without us” (coined by disability rights activists).
This month’s guest speakers are Dr. Nathan Lachowsky from the University of Victoria and Anu Radha Verma from the Community-Based Research Centre (www.cbrc.net). The centre promotes the health of people of diverse sexualities and genders through research and intervention development. In this presentation, Nathan and Anu Radha will share how community-based research is an example of open science in practice – through case studies of learnings, which cover lessons from both success and failure.
After this webinar, the audience will be able to:
- Identify principles for community-based research that relate to 2S/LGBTQQIA+ communities.
- Describe how open science and community-based research are complementary approaches.
- Understand the successes and challenges of implementing community-based research with and for 2S/LGBTQQIA+ communities.