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Designing and implementing a positive body image program: Unchartered territory with a diverse team of participants

Blogpost by Aly Bailey To date, few published body image studies have involved participants in helping to design body image programs. We believe action research offers a new way to approach research beyond traditional body image research methods (i.e., questionnaires) and approaches (i.e., randomized control trail) to promoting positive body image as it seeks the critical […]

Gaia’s Graveyards – Bearing witness as first person inquiry

Humanity is overwhelmingly in denial about the ‘biological annihilation’ facing the other species on the planet, heirs to a 13.8 billion year shared history. This paper argues that these questions can be addressed through action research, an ethical research practice, focused on issues of pressing concern to humans and the ecological communities of which they […]

Bjørn Gustavsen. In Memoriam

We have just learned that Bjørn Gustavsen died recently at the age of 79. Bjørn was a Norwegian academic and working life researcher active in Scandinavia in a career that saw significant contribution to the field of action research. Bjørn was Director of the Work Research Institute (1972–1983) and Professor at the Arbetslivscentrum in Stockholm (1986–1999), the University of Oslo (1995–1999) and in more recent years […]

Lessons from a community-based participatory research study with transgender and gender nonconforming youth and their families

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) involves community members collaborating with academic investigators in each step of the research process. CBPR may be especially useful for research involving marginalized populations with unique perspectives and needs. In this paper, we discuss successes and challenges of using a CBPR approach for the Trans Teen and Family Narratives Project, a […]

Teacher Participatory Action Research (TPAR): Politicizing Teacher Research

Blog post by Sarah R Stapleton Teacher Participatory Action Research (TPAR): Politicizing Teacher Research These are difficult times for teachers, particularly those in urban and/or low-income schools. Unfortunately, we seldom hear directly from them in conventional education research. To help them tell their stories, I partnered with a group of veteran, insightful, and knowledgeable teachers […]

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