Arts Informed Research and Community Based Research

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice,
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"Arts may be used in various stages of the research process in a variety of ways for envisioning exercises during the planning phase, to generate knowledge through data collection or analysis or to disseminate research results. The method allows those directly affected by the issue to document and express their concerns and their worldviews effectively."

Isumi Sakamoto, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Social Work, University of Toronto.

Professor Izumi Sakamoto is a former Fulbright Scholar, a Michigan Society of Fellows Associate Fellow, and a “Community of Scholars” Fellow of the Institute of Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. Dr. Sakamoto’s training and practice span North America and Japan, and she brings interdisciplinary perspectives from social work, social psychology, cultural psychology, and women’s studies.