This is our home: Initiating participatory action housing research with refugee and immigrant communities in a time of unwelcome
Community Voices for Housing Equality is a participatory action research group made up of community leaders and social workers whose aim is to address inequality and unfairness in housing by centering the voices of tenants. In this article, the core Community Voices for Housing Equality research team narrates and presents findings from phase one of […]
Read More...Learning from the experiences of others: An interview with Dr. Marja-Liisa Swantz
What is and what is not PAR? How can emerging scholars effectively use PAR methods to bring about community change and social justice? What is the future of PAR? These are the questions we had in mind when we decided to obtain answers by interviewing Dr. Marja-Liisa Swantz, a distinguished participatory action research expert whose […]
Read More...Hermosa Vida and increasing connectedness through community health partnerships
Partnerships with different organizations can be enticing when we — social justice activists and researchers – plan how to reduce inequality in health. Like many projects, Hermosa Vida, began with great enthusiasm as people from different agencies and communities conceived of a complicated plan in 2010. This plan involved the planting of seeds of engagement […]
Read More...Critical Questions—Seeking Funding. An Exploration through Quotation—posted by Mary Brydon-Miller
Follow the Money Those of us old enough to remember Watergate and the Nixon era probably also remember seeing the film All the Presidents’ Men and the pivotal scene in which Deep Throat (played by Hal Holbrook) advises the young Bob Woodward (played by Robert Redford) to “follow the money”. They do and voilá, “I’m […]
Read More...Action research with street-based sex workers
By Marta Graça Some years ago, during my trainee as a social worker, I worked in harm reduction with sex workers and people who inject drugs. I became sensitive to the lack of participation of sex workers in the design, implementation and evaluation of social and health services, in the academic research, and/or in the sociopolitical debate […]
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