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This project was a method development grant funded by the ESRC. The aim of this project was to test, pilot and evaluate a pioneering remote participatory audio-visual method using smartphones to co-produce knowledge with displaced women in Colombia on their gendered urban inequalities. Over a period of 10 months we connected with women in Bogota and Medellin remotely on Zoom where we trained women on how to use their smartphones to join online meetings, film video material and send co-produced data to the PI to store and analyse it. At the same time women would discuss video material in weekly online workshops to-coproduce knowledge on their displacement and settling in their respective city as well as provide instructions for editing video material for a final documentary. The results of this project is co-produced knowledge on women's displacement and urban futures, impact-in-process in form of capacity, awareness, confidence and network building, and a final documentary called 'Volviendo a Vivir' that shows women's displacement experience and their resistance to violence while building urban futures for them and their families.The goal of this project is to respond to the challenges of methodological co-production and participatory action research - which are almost always conducted in person face-to-face - that arise during emergencies by developing an innovative remote participatory visual method using smartphones. In collaboration with migrant women in Colombia and a London-based film company, we will co-develop and test a novel and pioneering remote participatory visual method for co-production researchers by applying participatory filming remotely to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women's new lived realities of urban life. The whole research process, from development to dissemination, will be conducted online. During emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face research becomes impossible through travel and social...