Barbara Groot

Barbara Groot is a senior researcher who conducted her Ph.D. in ‘Ethics of Participatory Health Research’. She co-founded an eight-year-long collaboration called ‘Centre of Client Experiences’ which was focused on policy change with people in vulnerable situations. In this relational platform, she has conducted participatory arts-based research with a variety of groups – people living in poverty, people with a psychiatric vulnerability, people with learning disabilities, and older adults with dementia. She reflects in her academic work on the impact, the relational complexities, and the ethical issues in participatory governance.