Dusty Columbia Embury
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Dusty Columbia Embury
Reflections of a community-based participatory researcher from the intersection of disability advocacy, engineering, and the academy
Abstract on behalf of Dora M Raymaker This article uses an evocative autoethnographic approach to explore the experience of being an insider-researcher in a community-based participatory research setting. Taking a holistic perspective and using the form of narrative story-telling, I examine the dynamics between the typically marginalizing (but sometimes empowering) experience of being a woman […]
Read More...An action-oriented method for inter-professional organization development at a hospital operating unit
Abstract on behalf of Christofer Rydenfält, Per-Anders Larsson, and Per Odenrick The complexity of modern interdisciplinary health care practices, where different specialties work together to solve complex problems, challenges traditional approaches to organizational development and quality improvement. An example of this is surgery. This article describes and evaluates an action-oriented method to facilitate organizational development and innovation at […]
Read More...“Saavy surfing” of knowledge regimes
Blog post by Kent Glenzer Let me kick things off with my own reflection on some of these questions. I have three assumptions that need to be surfaced. First is that good development gets at root causes of problems in a substantial – not superficial, or merely discursive – way. I don’t consider anything as […]
Read More...Poverty knowledge and action research: Lessons from the Ramanagaram Financial Diaries
Abstract on behalf of Rajalaxmi Kamath and Smita Ramanathan This piece is an attempt to synthesize our learnings about poverty and action research using the financial diaries methodology among the urban poor at Ramanagaram, a town 60 km away from Bangalore, India. We introduced a participa tory component in the financial diaries methodology by asking our respondents […]
Read More...Developing learning diaries for action research on healthcare management in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda
Abstract on behalf of Comfort Mshelia, Gillian Lê, Tolib Mirzoev, Samuel Amon, Ambrose Kessy, Sebastian Olikira Baine, and Reinhard Huss Action research (AR) can be an effective form of ‘on the job’ training. However, it is critical that AR cycles can be appropriately recorded in order to contribute to reflection and learning. One form of recording is for co-researchers to keep […]
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