Coaching sessions about participatory visual methods (e.g., photovoice, digital storytelling) available for FREE

The Centre for Community Based Research alongside the Arts-Informed Methods team at Trillium Health Partners are pleased to be offering free coaching sessions to support you with conducting your online photovoice, digital storytelling, or cellphliming project! Whether you're an individual researcher or part of an organization, we're here to help. We will be offering one free, personalized 50-minute coaching session to up to 10 organizations or individuals. Coaching sessions are self-guided. This means you bring your questions, and we spend the time talking about

them with you.

Definition: Participatory Visual Methods (PVM) invite participants (or co-researchers) to take photos or make videos to collaboratively identify, discuss, and analyze issues of importance. They are carefully facilitated via workshops, and are often done in group settings, but not always. PVMs are used for research, evaluation, and advocacy.

We can provide coaching about online participatory visual methods in the following areas:

• Designing your online project

• Considerations for conducting research online

• Considerations for accessibility and equity with a focus on online spaces

• Collaborative analysis in participatory visual methods

• Research ethics – including submitting REB applications

• Sharing videos, photographs, and findings from your project

• Including participatory visual methods in your grant applications

Limited slots are available. Request coaching here. We will carefully review all responses, and our team will be in touch. Get ready! Coaching sessions are scheduled to take place from January-February 2026.

Roster of Coaches

• Sarah Switzer (Language spoken: English) - Sarah Switzer is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Community Based Research.  She is a participatory visual methods (PVMS) enthusiast, with experience in photovoice, cellphilming, digital storytelling, body-mapping, collage and more.

• Elizabeth Mansfield (Language spoken: English) - Based at Trillium Health Partners’ Institute for Better Health, Liz is a scientist and qualitative researcher engaging arts-informed methods and community-based participatory research approaches.

• Kristina Fuentes-Aiello (Languages spoken: English and Spanish) - Kristina is a qualitative researcher with experience in photovoice and digital storytelling. Her research interests lie in occupational health, reproductive health and childhood disability. 

Want to learn more?

This coaching is part of a research project, “Adapting participatory visual methods to online and hybrid settings with diverse communities,” a collaboration between CCBR and Trillium Health Partners, funded by CIHR. The coaching is part of the project’s knowledge mobilization strategy and is funded by the Evaluation Capacity Network.

The project resources created to date include a podcast, infographic series, and an introductory video. Find them all here!

For more information about coaching contact janna@communitybasedresearch.ca