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University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, R3T 2N2
College of Nursing
Helen Glass Centre for Nursing
Room 465 - 89 Curry Place
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2
Phone: 204-474-8338
Fax: 204-474-7682
roberta.woodgate@umanitoba.ca
Dr. Woodgate’s research website: ingauge.ca
Dr. Roberta L. Woodgate’s research program, IN•GAUGE, embraces a dynamic approach to: involve children, youth, and families in the research process; interact with researchers and knowledge users in the research, intervention, and evaluation process; and be innovative in the use and exchange of knowledge with the combined goal of improving the health and well-being of children and youth. IN•GAUGE uses child and youth-friendly methodologies and innovative, art-based approaches that help children and youth express themselves thereby increasing understanding of their lived experiences.
Roberta’s program is infused by an approach to knowledge inquiry that is grassroots, embedded in the needs, experiences, and practices of children and youth experiencing health challenges and their families. Her program also works alongside health care providers, knowledge users, and decision makers to address their needs, barriers, and any gaps that exist. Roberta embraces a rights-based approach to research that recognizes that the voices of children and youth have in the past been silenced in research and in the decisions affecting their lives, including their health, and advocates for an approach that recognizes that children and youth are key actors in their own development, with the right to participate in decisions that affect them in accordance with their evolving capacities.
Roberta researches the perspectives and lived experiences of children and youth across a wide range of health conditions (e.g., mental illnesses, disabilities, complex care needs and conditions, chronic illnesses) and life challenges (e.g., transitioning from the child welfare system, accessing respite services) as well as various communities (e.g., Indigenous youth and their families and newcomer families).
Dr. Roberta L. Woodgate (she/her/hers) is a distinguished professor in the College of Nursing, University of Manitoba. Roberta holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair Award in Child and Family Engagement in Health Research and Healthcare. Roberta holds an interdisciplinary PhD (sociology, psychology and nursing) from the University of Manitoba.
Roberta has led the field in the development of child and youth-centred methodologies and innovative, arts-based approaches to the development, translation, and exchange of knowledge. Such approaches help young people express themselves and the issues important to them. Roberta’s work has had a positive impact on improving health and social service delivery for children and youth at the local, national, and international levels.
Roberta has fostered both national and international collaboration. By means of an integrated knowledge translation approach, Roberta leads research teams that support interdisciplinary expertise and the involvement of research end-users including clinicians and decision-makers, but importantly that centre the expertise of children, youth, and families as partners in research. She has a solid track record of leading interdisciplinary teams involving new investigators and trainees and work with partners to ensure the results of her research are used to improve health care outcomes and delivery for children and youth.
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