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Public facility design for sustainability: Participatory action research on household recycling in Hong Kong
While many researchers have pointed out that public design can increase users’ sustainable practices, how to achieve good public designs is challenging. To explore the current public design barriers and solutions to household recycling in Hong Kong, our research group, in collaboration with two Caritas Community Centres, adopted participatory action research, including questionnaires, interviews, nonparticipant […]
Read More...Unearthing local forms of child protection: Positive deviance and abduction in Ethiopia
The upcoming special issue of the Action Research Journal titled “Aid, Development, and Social Transformation” investigates how action research – if more broadly adopted by change agents, communities, funders, and policy makers – can contribute to tackling some of the globes most intractable, complex problems. Ashley Lackovich-Van Gorp’s “Unearthing local forms of child protection: Positive […]
Read More...New writing from Peter Reason
Participatory Research in more-than-human worlds shares Peter Reason’s latest writing… Participatory Research in more-than-human worlds is a boundary-busting collection that asks an excitingly hard question—can members of a more-than-human world engage in truly participatory research? In it human experimenters sensitively recount their humble successes and insightful failures with trying to do just this. For anyone who […]
Read More...Health Companion Project: A community-based participatory research model for health promotion in Iran
“This paper addresses the great potential of using CBPR for health promotion, inspired by experiences from Iran. The case presents a four-year long participative process, the ambition of which was to identify, prioritise and address key health issues in various communities in Iran (Dr. Svante Lifvergren, Associate Editor). We conducted a 4-year (2008–2011) community-based participatory […]
Read More...Transformation 2017. Aug/Sep Conference on Actioning Climate Change Scholarship
Climate Change TRANSFORMATIONS IN PRACTICE Where: Dundee, Scotland When: Aug 28-Sep 2, 2017 The overarching theme of this conference is ‘sustainability transformations in practice’. Important advances about transformation across different disciplines are already emerging, such as from the arts, humanities, social science and different scientific fields, including social-ecological resilience research, social-technological transitions research, development studies, […]
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