Designing and implementing a positive body image program: Unchartered territory with a diverse team of participants
Blogpost by  Aly Bailey To date, few published body image studies have involved participants in helping to design body image programs. We believe action research offers a new way to approach research beyond traditional body image research methods (i.e., questionnaires) and approaches (i.e., randomized control trail) to promoting positive body image as it seeks the critical […]
Read More...Reflections on the potential (and limits) of action research as ethos, methodology and practice: A case study of a women’s empowerment programme in the Middle East
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 […]
Read More...GIRRL power! Participatory Action Research for building girl-led community resilience in South Africa
This article aims to crystallize the contributions of the Girls in Risk Reduction Leadership (GIRRL) Program in building resilient communities through the integration of adolescent girls into local level decision-making and action for reducing disaster risk. Disadvantaged adolescent girls carry a double burden derived from vulnerability associated with gender and age within the context of […]
Read More...Enabling Marginalized Women to Critically Address Issues of Power and Identity
A blog inspired by Duncan, G., & Ridley-Duff, R. (2014). Appreciative inquiry as a method of transforming identity and power in Pakistani women. Action Research, 12(2), 117-135. Many women from the Middle East face many issues with power and identity. For example, law, culture and even family may try to obscure the identity of women, and […]
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Transforming how women and men and race intersect
Celebrating… the annual Women’s March and the momentum of the #MeToo movement, another cohort of our community of practice on “relational transformation” is coming to a close. Our co-lab RAIR community met over the past 6 months to practice together transforming relationship between women and men. We were all about that move from our cultural […]
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