Luxion, Kate;
Acharya, Ankit;
Chang, Stephanie;
Williams, Nia;
Allen, Kate;
Dhital, Ranjita;
(2025)
Shaking the foundations: co-creating knowledge exchange to inform alcohol research, policy, and practice in Nepal.
Journal of Creative Research Methods
, 1
(1)
pp. 72-96.
10.1332/30502969y2025d000000008.
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Abstract
Alcohol has complex, historic, and deep cultural significance in Nepal. Countries from the global majority, such as Nepal, experience the highest burden of harm from alcohol with increasing consumption rates compared with high-income countries. Therefore, alcohol harm reduction initiatives that engage meaningfully with cultural and community practices are needed. The Alcohol Co-design and Community Engagement (ACE) study aimed to co-create new understanding of harmful use of alcohol through applying creative and participatory approaches to inform future alcohol research and policy in Nepal. This article reports on the creative methodological process used to co-create knowledge exchange with diverse communities, co-researchers, and policy makers in Nepal. We co-produced a range of creative alcohol policy review activities, including scoping community and cultural assets that could be harnessed to reduce harmful use of alcohol by working with communities, including those with lived experience. This allowed us to understand the nature of any existing health and community support available locally, while highlighting the absence of much-needed support. We achieved this through using multi-modal, participatory approaches to critically review current policy and explored other forms of knowledge – centring indigenous knowledge – for its cultural and contextual relevance to reduce harmful use of alcohol and make recommendations for alcohol research and policy development and implementation in Nepal.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Shaking the foundations: co-creating knowledge exchange to inform alcohol research, policy, and practice in Nepal |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1332/30502969y2025d000000008 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1332/30502969y2025d000000008 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Co-production; creative global health; alcohol harm; participatory arts-based research; creative methods |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Arts and Sciences (BASc) |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10213122 |
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