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...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, […]
Read More...Before I was an action researcher, I was a feminist researcher/scholar. Â I had done feminist qualitative research, taking into account whose voice was being heard, the power dynamics within the research process, and the gendered lens which I explored my topic. Â As an action researcher I learned a lot from feminist theory and methodology. I […]
Read More...For my dissertation work, I explored how people could participate with their organization’s energy system to create change.  Quantum physics has postulated that our world is a vast sea of energy that surrounds us.  Some have asserted that this energy holds information that can be accessed to help inform our lives.  I started with quantum physics and […]
Read More...In my post last week I wrote about graduation.  And now I find myself in a place of not-knowing.  I have no idea what is next.  Some days I stress and other days I go with the flow.  Today I looked at this not-knowing time as the time in action research that is exciting, engaging, and yes…unnerving. […]
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