Participatory language documentation

Friday, 17 January 2025

Prof Dr Birgit Hellwig (University of Cologne) offered exciting insights into participatory language documentation. In two presentations, she explained how researchers can work together with local communities to collect data and create sustainable infrastructures that serve both academic and community purposes. Examples from Papua New Guinea and Sudan showed how participatory approaches can succeed on an equal footing. In the afternoon, participants developed their own ideas in the workshop and discussed ways of integrating participatory research into their projects.