Dr. Pamela Richardson is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the School of Geography and Planning at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests span agri-food studies, feminist geography, diverse economies, sustainabilities, collaborative methodologies, critical development studies and feminist political ecology. She has a long-term interest in the relations between community, socio-ecological imagination and transformative processes. Her current participatory action research focuses on community-building practices and sustainable food systems in Zimbabwe. Previous postdoctoral work in Tanzania explored issues of participation, gender and socio-cultural patterns of difference in the context of Agricultural Research for Development, while her doctoral research interrogated the ethical dimensions of Caribbean- European sugar trade policy reform and developed innovative modes of enquiry, including video methods, which sought to deepen attention to situated knowledges, embodiment and ecological agencies.
She leads various initiatives, including Make it Grow and Video-Co-Lab and is a trainer and facilitator of collaborative video production and storytelling methods. She has been working with participatory and community video for two decades. Currently, she focuses on supporting organisational and community capacity-building with a range of global partners, and has particular expertise in codesign processes, decolonising methodologies, and agroecological communication through video-making.
Publications
- Food Networks
- Multi-Disciplinary North-South Collaboration in Participatory Action Research on Food Value Chains: a German-Tanzanian Case Study on Perceptions, Experiences and Challenges
- Tourism and agriculture in Barbados: changing relationships
- The affective ethics of participatory video: An exploration of inter-personal encounters
- Participatory video proposals: A tool for empowering farmer groups in rural innovation processes?
- Documentary film and ethical foodscapes: three takes on Caribbean sugar
- Participatory problem analysis of crop activities in rural Tanzania with attention to gender and wealth: ‘setting the scene’ to enhance relevance and avoid exclusion in pro-poor innovation projects
- A vitalist approach to sugar-cane breeding in Barbados: In the context of the European Union Sugar Reform
- Negotiating Fairness in the EU Sugar Reform: The Ethics of European-Caribbean Sugar Trading Relations
- Situated knowledge and the EU sugar reform: a Caribbean life history
- Performing a more-than-human material imagination during fieldwork: muddy boots, diarizing and putting vitalism on video
- Participatory Video (remote, online): Participatory research methods for sustainability ‐ toolkit #2
- Disrupting Patterns at the End of an Agricultural Research Project: Experiences with Community Cinema and Participatory Video
- Cut Loose in the Caribbean: Neoliberalism and the Demise of the Commonwealth Sugar Trade
- Caribbean Cocoa: Planting and Production
- Everyday political geographies of community‐building: Exploring the practices of three Zimbabwean permaculture communities
- Diverse ethics for diverse economies
- Rethinking Sustainable Community Through Permaculture Initiatives in Zimbabwe
- The EU sugar reform and the responses of Caribbean sugar producers
- Aid for Trade and African agriculture: the bittersweet case of Swazi sugar
- Experience with participatory video proposals: assisting community organisations with innovation project planning
- Co-Creating Sustainable Food Systems - Learning with Communities of Practice in Zimbabwe
- Co-Creating Sustainable Food Systems - Learning with Communities of Practice in Zimbabwe
- Rethinking sustainable community through permaculture initiatives in Zimbabwe
- Diverse ethics for diverse economies: Considering the ethics of embodiment, difference and inter-corporeality at Kufunda
- Tourism and agriculture in Barbados: Changing relationships
- Caribbean Chocolate: Preparation, Consumption, and Trade
- Performing a more-thanhuman material imagination during fieldwork: Muddy boots, diarizing and putting vitalism on video
- Situated knowledge and the EU sugar reform: A Caribbean life history
- Documentary film and ethical foodscapes: Three takes on Caribbean sugar
- Everyday political geographies of community-building: Exploring the practices of three Zimbabwean permaculture communities
- Playing the donor's anxious game: Physical development planning legislative systems in the Eastern Caribbean
- Agricultural ethics, neurotic natures and emotional encounters: An application of actor-network theory
- Aid for Trade and African agriculture: The bittersweet case of Swazi sugar,Aide au commerce et agriculture africaine: Le cas mitigé du sucre swazi
- Participatory Video (remote, online): Participatory research methods for sustainability - toolkit #2
- Participatory Video as a Method for Participatory Research and Community Engagement