Involving incarcerated individuals in the research process: Perspectives of key stakeholders
Abstract on behalf of Mark E Johnson, Christiane Brems, Michael E Mills, and Gloria D Eldridge Given the considerable potential for participatory action research in correctional settings, this study gathered stakeholders’ perspectives on involving adults in custody throughout the research process. Using mixed methods, the study identified participants’ level of interest in involving prisoners in […]
Read More...Knowledge-making on ‘ageing in a smart city’ as socio-material power dynamics of participatory action research
Abstract on behalf of Tiina Suopajärvi This article investigates participatory action research workshops from the perspective of feminist new materialism by asking, how we came to know ageing in the smart city of Oulu in northern Finland through collaborative workshops which aimed to include seniors into public service design. The most meaningful socio-material components in […]
Read More...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...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...Research translation through participatory research: The case of two community-based projects in low-income African settings
blogpost written by Deborah Isobell Imagine the amount of funding that research projects receive every year. Not just nationally, but globally. Now take a moment to think about the knowledge generated from that research. Is it being used to its full potential to change peoples’ lived experiences? In instances where the application of research-derived knowledge […]
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