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Record W4415550742 · doi:10.1093/scipol/scaf061

Participatory research in Canada (2013-2018): a cross-sectional survey of academic researchers

2025· article· en· W4415550742 on OpenAlex
Zack Marshall, Meng Wang, Veronica Benz, Batool AlMousawi, Catherine Worthington, Melody E. Morton Ninomiya, Darren Lauscher, Sherri Pooyak, Sarah Switzer, James R. Watson, Ciann Wilson, Jennifer Demchuk, Stephanie E. Coen, Tanvir Chowdhury Turin

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueScience and Public Policy · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicMental Health and Patient Involvement
Canadian institutionsCentre for Community Based ResearchCommunity Based Research CentrePublic Health OntarioWilfrid Laurier UniversityMcGill UniversityUniversity of VictoriaUniversity of Calgary
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research CouncilSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Institutes of Health Research
KeywordsParticipatory action researchCitizen journalismIndigenousCommunity-based participatory researchSurvey researchResearch designPostgraduate researchSurvey data collection

Abstract

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Abstract Participatory research encompasses diverse investigative approaches that engage community, industry, and other nonacademic collaborators. While investigators have examined single studies to explore research processes and impacts, less is known about the participatory research ecosystem. To address this, our team conducted an online survey to characterize academic researchers who conducted participatory research in Canada (2013–8). Of 1135 respondents (response rate = 27.5 per cent), 38.9 per cent identified their research project as participatory. Results of a multivariable logistic regression showed that academic researchers identifying as women or gender diverse, Indigenous or racialized, of older age, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and those with larger grants were more likely to conduct participatory research. This study contributes to a growing understanding of individual- and institution-level factors that may influence academic researcher engagement with research coproduction. These findings offer new insights to inform science policy, funding priorities, and sustainable participatory research environments in academia.

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Direct model labels (unvalidated)

Per-model category and study-design labels from the labeling rounds. They are machine output, unvalidated, and the disagreement between models ships as data. No study design here is MEDLINE-validated yet.

Model armCategoriesStudy designConfidence
gemmaMetaresearch
Domain: Methods · Genre: Empirical
About the Canadian research system: yes · About a Canadian topic: yes
Observationallow
gptMetaresearch
Domain: Methods · Genre: Empirical
About the Canadian research system: yes · About a Canadian topic: yes
Observationalhigh
models agreeAgreement compares identical category sets and study designs across arms.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.025
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.092
Threshold uncertainty score0.911

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0250.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.004
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.811
GPT teacher head0.639
Teacher spread0.172 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it