The role of music and singing as research methods to improve migrants' involvement in health research and policy-making.

ABSTRACT: This commentary explores the potential of arts-based research methods, particularly music and singing, to address issues of participatory inequity and the structural bias this creates in health research systems and policies. Focusing on migration as a pressing public health issue in resettlement countries in the Global North, this commentary's objective is to investigate the use of such creative methods as a means of improving migrants' participation in health research, knowledge translation and the development of health policy. In doing so, it challenges the overreliance on cognitively and verbally oriented methods in the Global North, which fail to harness the participatory potential of the whole-body sensorium. Drawing on Palmer et al.'s explanatory theoretical model of change and centr

SUBMITTER: Phelan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12105389 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature