Easing stress in residential care with older people
Having a troubled conscience is stressful. This kind of stress seriously influences care providers ability to offer good care. So it’s important to take measures to address, and relieve but preferably prevent this kind of stress. We did our participatory action research in the context of  residential care for older people. We found that using a shared problem processing […]
Read More...Program Evaluation in an Aquatic Agricultural System
Many rural poor and marginalized people strive to make a living in social-ecological systems that are characterized by multiple and often inequitable interactions. Uncertainty and inequality in such systems require research and development interventions to be adaptive. Complexity-aware approaches to planning, monitoring and evaluating development interventions are gaining strength, yet, there is still little empirical […]
Read More...The Karen Resettlement Story: A Participatory Action Research Project on Refugee Educational Experiences in the United States
Blog post written by Eunbae Lee for the article by Daniel Gilhooly and Eunbae Lee No topic today garners more attention than the issue of refugees and refugee resettlement. Yet, rarely are the voices of those refugees incorporated in the media or in academic journals. This study represents the collaboration between three Karen brothers and […]
Read More...Transmedia, bridges, and layers (oh my) – A new publication on Knowledge Mobilisation and Participatory Action Research
Blog post by Colin R Anderson A new article in the Action Research Journal uses a case study approach to present three key knowledge mobilization strategies that can be used to mobilise knowledge in processes of social change: using transmedia to exchange knowledge across a range of communication media; building bridges to invite communication amongst diverse knowledge communities; and layering to communicate knowledge at varying […]
Read More...
1
Participatory action research as a tool in solving desert vernacular architecture problems in the Western Desert of Egypt
I would like to take you in a journey in a far desert spaces and places. A journey to know about  dwellings of ordinary people in desert towns and villages.  I need to tell you about inhabitants who think, design and build with the feeling that they are influencing the environment through the nature of […]
Read More...