Roberta L. Woodgate, RN, PhD, (she/her/hers) is a Distinguished Professor in the College of Nursing, University of Manitoba, Canada. Roberta holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair Award in Child and Family Engagement in Health Research and Healthcare. Her research program, IN•GAUGE, embraces a dynamic approach to: involve children, youth and families in the research process; interact with researchers and knowledge users in the research, intervention, and evaluation process; and be innovative in the use and exchange of knowledge with the combined goal of improving the health and well-being of children and youth.
Roberta embraces a rights-based approach to research that recognizes that the voices of children and youth have in the past been silenced in research and in the decisions affecting their lives, including their health, and advocates for an approach that recognizes that children and youth are key actors in their own development, with the right to participate in decisions that affect them in accordance with their evolving capacities. Roberta researches the perspectives and lived experiences of children and youth across a wide range of health conditions (e.g., mental illnesses, disabilities, complex care needs and conditions, chronic illnesses) and life challenges (e.g., transitioning from the child welfare system, accessing respite services) as well as various communities (e.g., Indigenous youth and their families and newcomer families). By means of an integrated knowledge translation approach, Roberta leads research teams that support interdisciplinary expertise and the involvement of research end-users including clinicians and decision-makers, but importantly that centre the expertise of children, youth, and families as partners in research.
Dr. Woodgate’s Research Website: www.ingauge.ca
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WoodgateRoberta
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertawoodgate/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUvZpphusBjwmswdRk4m-dw
