The whyPAR Podcast
from the Youth Research Lab at OISE/UT

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From “oh sh*t!” to “oh shift”, a conversation with Leila Angod, Jessica Bleuer, Rose Gutierrez, and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández

In this podcast, we share moments when our facilitation plans were ruptured by unexpected challenges or situations. We discuss how we moved from through those moments and the shifts we made to adjust our practice. 
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Facilitator Archetypes: Navigating Institutions as Community Engaged Facilitators

This podcast episode uses 3 archetypes: the doula, the smuggler and translator to explore the role that many community engaged facilitators take in navigating the institutions that they work within and for. Through the lens of these archetypes, we…

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Saving or Engaging: Rethinking Community Facilitation, a conversation with Ananya Banerjee and Annie Chau

This podcast explores the tension between “saving” and “engaging” when working with communities. Through personal stories and reflective conversations, the Ananya Banerjee and Annie Chau discuss the risks of falling into saviourism and highlight the…

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“Creating joyful resistance in communities”: On Visual Participatory Methods with Casey Burkholder

This episode features Dr. Casey Burkholder, with podcast host, Dr. Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández. In this conversation, Casey shares about her experience doing participatory visual research with queer and trans communities in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,…

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“People who live in their neighbourhoods know it better”: On community engaged and participatory urban planning research with Dr. Aditi Meht

This episode features Dr. Aditi Mehta, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Toronto, and podcast host Dr. Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Professor and Director of the Youth Research Lab here at OISE. Drawing on her diverse…

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“There’s no one way to do this”: On youth-adult partnerships and embracing complexity, a conversation with Sharif Mahdy, Stoney McCart, Kwak

This episode features Sharif Mahdy, Stoney McCart, Kwaku Agyemang from the Students Commission of Canada (SCC) and podcast host Maddy Ross. In this conversation, they reflect on how the SCC’s origins at a national youth conference in 1991 helped to…

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“Not everything can be fully participatory, right?”: On “True” PAR, A Conversation between Aurora Santiago-Ortiz and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernán

This episode features conversation between Dr. Aurora Santiago-Ortiz, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women studies the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with podcast host Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, a Professor here at OISE, the Director of the…

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“What happens when you run onto the edges of progressivism?”: On Conducting YPAR in Elite Schools, A Conversation Between Rubén Gaztambide-F

This episode features conversation between Dr. Leila Angod, Assistant Professor in the Childhood and Youth Studies Program at Carleton University, and a former postdoctoral fellow at the Youth Research Lab with podcast host Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández,…

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“Art Is Research”: On Knowledge from Identity and Place – A Conversation between Maddy Ross and Artist-Researchers Pree Rehal, Bert Whitecro

This episode features five artist-researchers from the Making With Place Research Project (MWP), a collaborative initiative in T’karonto between York University graduate students Charlotte Lombardo and Phyllis Novak and SKETCH, an award-winning…

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“How to Empower Themselves in an Industry Not Meant for Them”: On Community-Engaged Programming with Lil Sis (Alma Ahmed, Suzanna Maharaj, R

This episode features conversation between the Lil Sis team – Alma Ahmed, Suzanna Maharaj, Rayan Saied, Belul Kidane, and Kamilah Apong-  and podcast host Naima Raza.
In this episode, Lil Sis and Naima discuss community-engaged youth research and…

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