Video-reflexivity: A methodology to promote engaged learning and sustained impact - (2 days)

Organisations have become more flexible and innovation-driven, and their processes and structures, more complex and dynamic – video-reflexivity is one approach to examine and understand this complexity. Organisations that represent the academic, public, private, and not-for-profit sectors are increasingly called to collaborate and engage with, and demonstrate positive impact on their communities – video-reflexivity represents one approach towards this aim.

Practitioners (broadly defined) are regularly required to engage in organisational change and quality improvement programs, and to involve colleagues and/or other stakeholders in this process – video-reflexivity represents one approach towards this aim. Video-reflexivity has a demonstrated capacity to draw together researchers, clinicians, patients, and their families to examine and understand complex healthcare practices. Video-reflexivity has been successfully used to ignite meaningful organisational change

Video-reflexivity creates opportunities for participants to:

• Expand a sense of what complex circumstances might require from them
• Negotiate the definitions and enactments of optimal performance

The Master-class will harness and draw on the collective expertise of international scholars who have considerable experience with video-reflexivity – they will be involved in:

• The development of the syllabus and the associated learning materials
• The didactic delivery of parts of the syllabus via web-conference, as appropriate
• The interactive facilitation of parts of the syllabus in person

This master class will draw on the collective expertise of international scholars with considerable experience with video-reflexivity to advance. They will draw on their experiences and expertise in using video-reflexivity in healthcare, however the content will also be applicable to the study of social and professional practices in other areas.

These scholars include (follow the hyperlink for a detailed biography):

Dr Ann Dadich - Senior Lecturer within the School of Business at the Western Sydney University
Dr Katherine Carroll - Research Fellow in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University.
Dr Su-yin Hor - Lecturer in health services management at the University of Technology, Sydney
Dr Mary Wyer - Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research
Ms Danielle Bywaters - University of Tasmania
Dr Aileen Collier - University of Auckland
Dr Nina Fudge - Queen Mary University of London
Prof. Rick Iedema - King’s College London
A/Prof. Jessica Mesman - Maastricht University
Mrs Anouk van der Arend - Maastricht University

Following the completion of the Master-class, participants will be offered continued support via the Video-Reflexive Ethnography International Association – this association is an international collective of scholars and practitioners with an interest in video reflexive ethnography as a transformative methodology; members convene monthly via web-conference to advance:

• Video-reflexivity for studying social practices in all their aspects;
• The professional interests of those who use video-reflexivity, including the creation and dissemination of methodological knowledge and its use in improving practices;
• Practical and ethical norms for conducting video-reflexivity within and beyond the research setting.

Following the completion of this Master-class, participants will be able to:

• Explain the guiding principles that underpin video-reflexivity
• Identify its benefits and limitations
• Undertake video-reflexivity with reference to: the resources required; data management; and data analysis
• Develop a proposal for a video-reflexivity project
• Describe the practical and ethical implications of using video-reflexivity

• Identify relevant sources of information and support to guide the use of video-reflexivity