Blog post by Andrew Eaton Peer researchers are people who represent a research project’s participants (such as people living with HIV). They partner with academic researchers to conduct research in a collaborative way, seeking to mitigate power dynamics that often occur between researchers and participants in healthcare research. I’m a social worker and PhD student. […]
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Abstract provided on behalf of the authors: Nicole Mittenfelner Carl and Sharon M Ravitch In this paper, we explore how youth participatory action research methods serve as a means of uncovering and addressing hidden curricula in schools. To illuminate, we present an example of one school-based youth participatory action research project in which high school students examined […]
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Abstract provided on behalf of the authors: Lara B Gerassi, Amanda Colegrove, and Deanna Kopriva McPherson This paper analyzes the participatory research process stemming from a five-year transformative relationship between anti-trafficking coalition members (including service providers from multiple social service organizations), the coalition organizer, and a service provider who became a sex trafficking/commercial sexual exploitation researcher. We […]
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John Holmberg is a professor of physical resource theory and he also holds Sweden’s first UNESCO chair in education for sustainable development. His background is in physics and in his doctoral dissertation he developed principles for a sustainable future, which received international dissemination through the Natural Step Foundation. His current research focuses on sustainability transitions. […]
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Blog post by Robin A Evans-Agnew and Chris Eberhardt In this project we found that urban youth were able to cut through the arguments about woodsmoke pollution and “grapple” with scientific knowledge and their opinions for policy action. In a region besieged by winter pollution from household woodstoves, pacific-northwest scientists have had little success in […]
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