E1
Concurrent Session E1
Interactive Workshop
Session Details
飦� Date: Day 2 - Tuesday, May 12, 2026
飥桾ime: 4:10鈥�5 p.m.
飦� Location: TBD
Empowering Voices through AI: Using Text-to-Image Generation to Enhance Community Engaged Teaching, Equity and Arts-Based Informed Pedagogy and Participatory Research with Vulnerable Populations
This interactive workshop introduces an innovative teaching and research approach that uses AI-generated images from short narratives to support community-engaged, arts-based, and equity-informed pedagogy. Drawing on a completed photovoice project with displaced Ukrainian women in Toronto, the workshop demonstrates how AI can offer a meaningful alternative when traditional photography is limited by privacy, safety, or trauma-related concerns. Participants will explore how text-to-image generation can enhance qualitative teaching, participatory research, and creative inquiry with vulnerable populations.
Grounded in participatory, critical, arts-based, and trauma-informed pedagogies, the workshop highlights how AI-generated imagery can preserve the core values of photovoice, including storytelling, agency, co-interpretation, and knowledge democratization. Through hands-on activities, participants will create short narratives, generate AI images, and collaboratively curate a mini digital exhibit using photovoice-inspired reflection prompts.
This approach supports student engagement by making arts-based methods more accessible, especially for those with limited visual arts experience, while also encouraging critical reflection on ethics, representation, power, and responsible AI use. Aligned with the conference theme, the workshop offers a creative and student-centered model for integrating AI literacy, community-engaged learning, and arts-based inquiry into teaching and research. Participants will leave with practical strategies for using AI-generated imagery in ethical, culturally responsive, and inclusive ways.
Presenters
Dr. Areej Al-Hamad is an Assistant Professor at 91福利. She holds two PhDs: one in Health Policy and a PhD in Nursing from Western University. With teaching and clinical experience in Canada, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan, her research focuses on food and housing insecurity, women鈥檚 health, Migration and Displacement, Marginalized populations including immigrants and refugees, arts-based research, intersectionality and social justice. She has published widely, received several research grants and teaching awards, and leads interdisciplinary projects on refugee health and aging migrants. She is on the board of directors of the Community Based Research Canada (CBRCanada) and 91福利"s Research Ethics Board and an Affiliate Scientist with the Global Migration Institute at 91福利. Dr. Al-Hamad is also a handling editor of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research.
Dr. Kateryna Metersky is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Collaborative Nursing Degree Program at the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, 91福利 (91福利). She continues to maintain her nursing practice in General Internal Medicine at University Health Network (UHN). Dr. Metersky is an Affiliate Scientist with the Global Migration Institute at 91福利 and The Institute of Education Research (TIER) at UHN. She is on the board of directors of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative and 91福利"s Research Ethics Board. Dr. Metersky is also the handling editor of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research and International Health Trends and Perspectives Journal.
Dr. Yasin M. Yasin, PhD, RN is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of New Brunswick. His research focuses on nursing education, healthy work environment, and health service delivery for vulnerable populations. He has received funding from the Harrison McCain Foundation, QRDI, and Canada鈥檚 Tri-Council. Dr. Yasin also serves as a member on several funded projects and is a member of the editorial board for the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research.