Caring in Action Research. Themed Issue ARJ out now
From the editorial by Kent Glenzer and Hilary Bradbury “It is a humble verb: “To care.” We say we care when we see the devastation of mega-storms and wildfires, and Pacific islands disappearing in a rising ocean. We care about Black lives, about Afghan women, about indigenous people, all dispossessed and done violence to by […]
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SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry
I was delighted to receive my copy of the new SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry. It’s co-edited by which Danny Burns of IDS with Jo Howard and Sonia Ospina, alongside a wonderful team of section editors. It’s a collection of 71 chapters in two volumes. It provides both the conceptual and ethical underpinnings […]
Read More...Four practices for conducting feminist participatory action research
In the photo, clockwise from top right, are Alona, Nur, Lior, and Bat El, members of the Alibi action research group. A few moments before starting the one-day conference we organized for social workers, Nur took the selfie (or is it a groupie?). Missing from the photo is Yael, who was abroad at the time. […]
Read More...UK Pilot Trauma Project urgently needs support from Action Research Graduate or Student
Posted by Anna Betz. We are a small team of three health professionals and a project lead working on a pilot project in Brighton that starts on 1st October. The aim of the project is to develop an innovative care pathway for those with underlying PTSD and EUPD. We will be working with 200 patients […]
Read More...Action Research that includes policy makers
We often hear that action research remains too local, too small scale. A million dollar question is how and when do we bring the decision makers in. How does policy get made based on the action research? Ideally combining fruitful relations with policy actors with a counter-hegemonic role? These questions are […]
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