Million Belay, founder of the MELCA-Ethiopia NGO and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), is an expert and advocate for forestry conservation, resilience, indigenous livelihoods and food and seed sovereignty. He’s also an action researcher. We caught up when he was visiting at the Swedish Resiliency Center. Hilary: Is academia and its potential […]
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Abstract provided on behalf of the authors: Suzanne Hammad, Alice Alunni, and Tamara Alkhas This paper argues that an evidence-based approach to advocacy led by and targeting women could amplify women’s positioning in the political and economic realms. Participatory Action Research is examined as a process for mobilisation, coalition-building and evidence-based advocacy and action, through a case […]
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Global development objectives increasingly call for interdisciplinary approaches that respond to different development needs at the local level. In order to achieve this, research and development fields must shift from more traditional top-down approaches to those approaches that include community needs assessments and project design, implementation, and follow-up. “Participatory video for two-way communication in research for […]
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I was lucky to catch up with Oguz Baburoglu a professor and action researcher in the socio-technical tradition. His consultancy, ARAMA, has become the premier search conferencing team in Turkey. Bringing participative methods to all sorts of governance and university redesign has made them popular, yay! Oguz is especially intent on helping to redesign the Future […]
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Hilary: Hi Ben. Or more formally, Professor Benito Teehankee. First let me say thank you for staying up so late to talk! Between being a Professor and innovator around action research for the prestigious De La Salle university, I know you also play in a jazz band! So a big open question to start what is […]
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