Listen in – Participatory Action Research – Feminist Trailblazers Podcast
Post by Patricia Maguire, PAR-FEM Podcast host Streaming now – the 12th episode of the podcast Participatory Action Research Feminist Trailblazers and Good Troublemakers. Listen to Caribbean feminists Peggy Antrobus, Norma Shorey, and Chris Ashton. This episode showcases their commitments to feminist and participatory values and processes in the initial Women and Development Unit (WAND), […]
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 […]
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 […]
Read More...Lights, Camera…Action Research
It is dress rehearsal. Along with 20 Filipino domestic workers, a handful of Filipino American cast members, director, lights person, media and prop staff, I walk into the theater at Hunter College. Our light technician turns on the lights on the stage to see if they work and we take in a few seconds to […]
Read More...Collaborative participatory action strategies for re-envisioning young men’s masculinities
Ask a group of male college students if they believe it is OK to have sex with a woman who is intoxicated. Many in the room will raise their hand… and maybe giggle a little. Now ask them to answer the same question anonymously. You may find that the results of both approaches to the […]
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