Our approach to immigrant Our commitment to women’s leadership in research communicating research We regularly consult and work with MCWH is committed to ensuring that our immigrant and refugee women during the health education program is at all research process to ensure that: informed by a reliable and current evidence base and that research findings are the research is both culturally communicated appropriately to immigrant appropriate and relevant; and refugee communities and other opportunities are provided whenever relevant stakeholders. Our research is possible to develop immigrant women’s communicated in a variety of ways and trust, agency and ownership over the disseminated through different channels to research process; ensure the best possible uptake by the research impacts and outcomes will communities, policymakers, practitioners be meaningful for women; and service providers. Research findings are respect for the dignity and wellbeing of communicated via: participants takes precedence over the expected benefits to knowledge; and research articles and publications; immigrant and refugee women will training and information workshops, ultimately benefit from, and not be conference papers and presentations; disadvantaged by, the research. the WRAP monthly e-newsletter and MCWH website; Our bilingual health education team plays a advocacy information sheets and central role in working women as peers with resources; and co-researchers in the collection and the MCWH annual report; and evaluation of data, and not as dispassionate meetings with relevant policy makers researchers who are doing research about and submissions to government. them.
Our approach to immigrant women’s leadership in research We regularly consult and work with immigrant and refugee women during the research process to ensure that: the research is both culturally appropriate and relevant; opportunities are provided whenever possible to develop immigrant women’s trust, agency and ownership over the research process; the research impacts and outcomes will be meaningful for women; respect for the dignity and wellbeing of participants takes precedence over the expected benefits to knowledge; and immigrant and refugee women will ultimately benefit from, and not be disadvantaged by, the research. Our bilingual health education team plays a central role in working with women as peers and co-researchers in the collection and evaluation of data, and not as dispassionate researchers who are doing research about them. Our commitment to communicating research MCWH is committed to ensuring that our health education program is at all informed by a reliable and current evidence base and that research findings are communicated appropriately to immigrant and refugee communities and other relevant stakeholders. Our research is communicated in a variety of ways and disseminated through different channels to ensure the best possible uptake by communities, policymakers, practitioners and service providers. Research findings are communicated via: research articles and publications; training and information workshops, conference papers and presentations; the WRAP monthly e-newsletter and MCWH website; advocacy information sheets and resources; the MCWH annual report; and meetings with relevant policy makers and submissions to government.