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This site is a collective workspace for the Dried Fish Matters project, designed to support the open sharing of drafts and discussion. Anything shared here will accessible on the web but will not be indexed by search engines. To contribute, please Create an account and confirm your email address. More information is available at Help:Getting started.
This site is a collective workspace for the Dried Fish Matters project, designed to support the open sharing of drafts and discussion. Anything shared here will accessible on the web but will not be indexed by search engines. To contribute, please Create an account and confirm your email address. More information is available at Help:Getting started.
Project planning
- Stage two planning
- This document lists some planning suggestions, the starting point of which was the outcome of discussions at the Plenary meeting of 2022-01-25.
- Talk:Stage two planning
- Discussion threads on planning and outcomes for the second half of the DFM project. All project members are invited to contribute comments.
Meetings and events
Upcoming
- DFM Calendar
- Listing of upcoming meetings and events, with a calendar that can be imported into your time planning software (iCalendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, etc.)
Past events
- DFM meeting Zoom recordings
- Video recordings of past DFM meetings and webinars (YouTube playlist)
- Category:Minutes
- Listing of minutes / notes from past DFM meetings
- Small Fish Seminar (February 2021)
- Page on the main website capturing information about the Small Fish Seminar
- MARE Conference 2021
- Planning page for the MARE 2021 "People and the Sea" Conference
- 4WSFC
- Information on the World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress. The 4th World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (4WSFC) is a transdisciplinary forum for anyone interested in small-scale fisheries to participate in an interactive discussion about the world's small-scale fisheries. The purpose of the congress is to facilitate knowledge exchange, foster collaboration, and mobilize support for the viability and sustainability of small-scale fisheries. Considering the Covid-19 global pandemic, and recognizing the need to strengthen regional networks and organizations, the 4WSFC will take place in five regions of the world. The first congress in the series was the 4WSFC Asia-Pacific, which was held virtually from Shizuoka City, Japan, on May 10-13, 2022.
Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Conference (Kochi, 21-23 November 2022)
DFM's three panels at the GAF8 Conference and key recommendations arising from the presentations.
MARE Conference XII: Blue Fear - navigating ecological, social, and existential anxieties during the Anthropocene, held on June 26-30, 2023 at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Dried Fish Matters (DFM) organized a panel honoring Professor Mostafa (Ranu) Ali Reza Hossain's transdisciplinary knowledge building for fisheries and aquaculture in Bangladesh.
DFM Phase -2 Planning Meeting 2023
The Dried Fish Matters (DFM) phase -2 planning meeting held from August 17 -23, 2023, in Kolkata, India, brought together project members from all partner countries. The meeting commenced with plenary sessions, followed by a stakeholder meeting, a community workshop, and a visit to the local dried fish market. These activities fostered collaboration, ensured stakeholder inputs, engaged the local community, and provided valuable insights for the next phase of the project.
DFM Phase-2 Planning Meeting in Pictures
Teams
Research teams (geographic)
Please use these pages to update information on your team's research, publications, etc. The content of these pages is periodically copied to the team description pages on our public-facing website.
- DFM Gujarat
- DFM Karnataka
- DFM Kerala
- DFM Sri Lanka
- DFM Andhra Pradesh
- DFM Telangana
- DFM West Bengal
- DFM Bangladesh
- DFM Mizoram & Manipur
- DFM Myanmar
- DFM Thailand
- DFM Cambodia
Working groups
- WG1
- DFM Working Group 1: Social economy
- WG2
- DFM Working Group 2: Food and nutrition security
- WG3
- DFM Working Group 3: Policy, Governance, and Development
- DFM Student Group
- DFM-supported students
- Visualizing social economies
- Visualization Group working within WG1
- E-book
- Editorial committee for the DFM E-book to be released in late 2022
Technical help and guidelines
The following documents provide guidance to DFM staff, students, and researchers who are investigating dried fish value chains or making use of DFM knowledge platforms.
ATLAS.TI: Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA)
- Help:Atlas.ti
- video tutorials and links to other documentation on Qualitative Data Analysis / coding within DFM
- Help:Atlas.ti quickstart
- Introduction to Atlas.ti and QDA
- Help:Coding strategies in Atlas.ti
- Overview of inductive vs. deductive coding processes
- Help:QDA best practices
- Evolving list of best practices for coding qualitative data
ZOTERO: Reference management and analysis
- Help:Zotero web library
- Getting started with Zotero
- Help:Zotero tags
- The tags used in the DFM Zotero library, primarily for categorizing references in the global literature review
- Help:Importing text with Zotero citations from a word processor
- Instructions for importing a document with Zotero references into the wiki
Wiki platform
- Help:Getting started
- Quick start for users of this wiki
- Help:Navigation
- How to navigate the DFM wiki
- Help:Editing
- How to use the editing tools on the DFM wiki
- Help:Publishing wiki pages
- How to publish pages on the DFM wiki
- DFM Guideline: Copyediting checklist
- Checklist for copyeditors working with reports stored and published through the wiki platform
- Help:Images
- Navigating images on the DFM wiki.
- Help:Image uploader
- How to publish images to the DFM wiki. The upload form described in this document provides a simplified way of submitting metadata and licensing information for images created by the DFM project.
Project monitoring and reporting
- Partner year-end reporting guideline
- Instructions and links to SSHRC reporting forms (Partner Contribution Statement and F300)
- Category:Reporting forms and templates
- List of forms and templates for activity and financial reports
- Monitoring
- Index to project monitoring pages, with links to individual research teams and deliverables
- Help:Project management
- A list of help pages and guidelines for internal project management
Theory
- Stacked value chains
- About stacked value chains
- Social economy of value
- Theory background paper (Working Group 1)
Research guidelines
- DFM Guideline: Scoping research
- Guidance on preparing the Scoping research
- DFM Guideline: Scoping report structure
- Expected contents of the Scoping Report
- DFM Guideline: Ethics handbook
- Guidance on obtaining approval for research from the Ethics Review Board at the University of Manitoba, including an overview of the principles of ethical research followed by SSHRC and other public funding agencies in Canada
- DFM Guideline: Ethics protocol checklist
- List of elements that need to be included in a research protocol submitted for ERB review
- List of ethics protocol documents
- Incomplete list of documents approved by the Ethics Review Board at the University of Manitoba, including consent forms, questionnaires, survey guides, recruitment materials, and COVID protocols. New ethics submissions may build on these documents.
- DFM Guideline: Visual research
- Preliminary guidance on visual research
- Hypotheses table
- Initial list of hypotheses
Writing and publications
- DFM Zotero library
- All DFM reports and publications -- including newsletters and Working Papers -- are currently stored in the Dried Fish Matters Zotero user library. This is a private library, distinct from the DFM group library that is accessible to everyone in the project.
- DFM bibliography
- A bibliography of project publications is generated automatically each day and uploaded to this page.
- Dataverse repository
- Raw data from the project will be archived in this repository at the University of Manitoba.
- DFM Wiki
- Working papers, reference documents, etc. are available here on the wiki for internal discussion and, where appropriate, contributions from people outside the project. The wiki is accessible on the web but not "public" in the sense that it is not indexed by search engines.
- Category:Public
- List of pages in this wiki that are used in generating versions on the public website
- Public website/blog
- Our public-facing website is managed by the DFM project team and includes summary information about the project, including newsletters, for a wide audience.
