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Participatory Research

Projects and research groups exploring or applying participatory research methods. Literature dealing with Participatory Research Issues. See also "Citizens' Science" and "EU-Activities Science and Society"

publication year 2006

A Handbook on Knowledge Sharing: Strategies and Recommendations for Researchers, Policymakers, and Service Providers

"This handbook was formulated using existing knowledge-sharing resources, which were collected, reviewed, and summarized. (..) This book represents an attempt to bring together the diversity of information that was scattered across books, journals, and organizations into a logical, accessible resource, which will hopefully be a useful tool to those engaged in knowledge sharing. "

Action research resources

This is the “front page” of a substantial action research site, maintained by Bob Dick, Southern Cross University, Australia

areol - action research and evaluation online

Areol, action research and evaluation on line, is a 14-week public course offered each semester as a public service by Southern Cross University and the Southern Cross Institute of Action Research

Involve

"The aim of the database is to provide a resource of published and unpublished research projects in the field of health (including public health) and social care that have or plan to actively involve members of the public as partners in the...
publication year 2004

Participatory approaches to research on poverty

What real voice do people with direct experience of poverty have in research and inquiry into poverty? This study, by Fran Bennett with Moraene Roberts, gives an overview of 'participatory' approaches to research and inquiry into poverty in the UK.

publication year 2005

Research as empowerment?

"There is growing political and policy interest in evidence-based policy and practice in health and social care. Alongside this has been a greatly increased interest in extending user involvement in research, and in new research approaches that highlight more inclusive and equal research relationships. (...) Knowledge about more participatory research approaches is not widely shared; discussion of such research remains at an early stage and ideas of 'evidence' and 'empowerment' in relation to research require closer, more inclusive and systematic consideration."

Research Institute for Health and Social Change (MMU - Manchester Metropolitan University)

"This research group embraces projects that are in collaboration with local people, community, voluntary, activist and human service organisations. We are particularly interested in finding creative ways to evaluate community projects and t...

TRAFO - Transdisciplinary Forms of Research

A Research programme of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research 2004-2007: "Transdisciplinary research aims at participation of various groups of civil society, who are potential users of research results, in the research proc...
publication year 2007

Understanding Action Research

"Action research is a process of deep inquiry into one's practices in service of moving towards an envisioned future aligned with values. Action Research is the systematic, reflective study of one's actions and the effects of these actions in a workplace context. As such, it involves deep inquiry into one's professional action..."

publication year 1998

What is Participatory Action Research?

"This paper came about in response to requests to speak about some of the collective wisdom that has been generated over many decades by people who have identified what they do using the term ‘participatory action research’."

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