Participatory action research with refugee and asylum-seeking women

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Greenfields
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Practice Change ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
And Training

This chapter discusses the methods, processes, and outcomes of a Comic Relief-funded three-year community development and advocacy programme undertaken with Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Women (RASW) in London. It focuses on how the use of participatory action research and training delivered by RASW can challenge and inform the way in which ‘professionals’ deliver health and legal services to vulnerable communities. The project, undertaken during 2012–15 by Independent Academic Research Services, a London-based charity, was co-designed with participant beneficiaries with the explicit aim of generating institutional change and increased gender sensitivity in the treatment of RASW, both through harnessing research findings to drive policy and practice change and by allowing women themselves to articulate the problems they currently face in terms of accessing appropriate support.

scholarly journals Working Towards the Promise of Participatory Action Research: Learning From Ageing Research Exemplars

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 160940691881795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas ◽  
Ann Marie Corrado ◽  
Colleen McGrath ◽  
Debbie Laliberte Rudman ◽  
Carri Hand
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
Research Findings

Within research addressing issues of social justice, there is a growing uptake of participatory action research (PAR) approaches that are ideally committed to equitable participation of community members in all phases of the research process in order to collaboratively enact social transformation. However, the utilization of such approaches has not always matched the ideal, with inconsistencies in how participation and action are incorporated. “Participation” within various research processes is displayed differently, with the involvement of community members varying from full participation to their involvement as simply participants for data collection. Similarly, “action” is varyingly enacted from researchers proposing research implications for policy and practice to the meaningful involvement of community members in facilitating social change. This inconsistency in how PAR is utilized, despite widespread publications outlining key principles and central tenets, suggests there are challenges preventing researchers from fully embracing and enacting the central tenets of equitable participation and social transformation. This article intends to provide one way forward, for scholars intending to more fully enact the central tenets of PAR, through critically discussing how, and to what extent, the principles of PAR were enacted within 14 key exemplars of PAR conducted with older adults. More specifically, we display and discuss key principles for enacting the full commitment of PAR, highlight a critical appraisal guide, critically analyze exemplars, and share strategies that researchers have used to address these commitments. The critical appraisal guide and associated research findings provide useful directions for researchers who desire to more fully embrace commitments and practices commensurate with enacting the promise of PAR for equitable collaboration and social transformation.

scholarly journals Participatory action research and co-researching as a tool for situating youth knowledge at the centre of research

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Staci B. Martin ◽  
Jessica H. Burbach ◽  
Lulis Lares Benitez ◽  
Irisa Ramiz
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Insight Into

Too often youth from vulnerable communities see themselves talked about in academic research, but are rarely involved as co-researchers or co-authors of research. The purpose of this article is to share our reflections on engaging youth, their experiences and their perspectives on the multi-levels of impact of participatory action research methodologies, such as community-based action research or youth participatory action research. This article discusses more broadly how our participatory methodologies have impacted our co-researchers and ourselves. In it, we provide additional details about our past research projects, as well as theorizing those details in terms of how critical theory serves as a tool within participatory methodologies. We reflect on the experiences engaging participatory methodologies in two different contexts and examine the collective impacts, comparing and contrasting the findings. We draw on our field research: one researcher worked with co-researchers from Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, and the other worked alongside youth co-researchers from an alternative secondary school in the USA. Two of our co-authors are also co-researchers, and they offer a deeper insight into how these methodologies impacted their lives.

scholarly journals Using Action Research to Improve Race Relations in Prisons

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Action Research Approach ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Utilization Focused

Tackling racism in prisons has a relatively long policy, practice, and research history in England and Wales. However, clear evidence of success in reducing racism in prisons has been, and still is, difficult to find. This article is based on a unique study that was carried out either side of the new millennium (late 1999 to mid-2001), but no equivalent exercise has been repeated since. Due to a unique set of circumstances at the time the study was carried out, it became possible to employ an action research approach that required policymakers, practitioners, volunteers, and researchers to agree on: an emergent research design; implementation; intervention; and measurement. There are many forms of action research, but this study could best be defined as a “utilization-focused evaluation, which is particularly applicable to the criminal justice environment. This approach also included elements of participatory action research.” The emphasis here is to show how the action research approach can be both more systematic and more flexible than traditional social science approaches. This applies to both epistemological and research methods considerations, because, by combining theory and action, action research can provide a more viable way of ensuring that policy works in practice, and is sensitive to unique institutional exigencies. Throughout, discussion is contextualised using policy, research and methodology texts from the period when the research was commissioned, but given an overall methodological context by referencing more recent methodology text books. The article first outlines the context in which the action research study was commissioned, before providing a summary of the international research findings on race relations in prisons, from which key concepts for the project were initially operationalized. The chapter then explains how the specific participatory action research approach was selected as the most appropriate design, the extent to which the approach was successful, and why. The article ends with a discussion of the implications of findings and conclusions from this study for current policy and methodological approaches.

scholarly journals MANAJEMEN PENGELOLAAN LAHAN KRITIS PADA DAS BRANTAS HULU BERBASIS MASYARAKAT (Pilot Project Desa Bulukerto, Kota Batu)

SAINSTIS ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Harini, Suyono, Elok Mutiara
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Resources Conservation ◽  
Schema Analysis ◽  
And Training ◽  
Forest Farm

Management of critical farm base on society represents a new approach to all researcher of environment this time. In management of farm base on this society, society invited directly start from planning, formulation of policy, its benefit collection and execution. With this direct participation enable society can calculate directly impact economical and environment (natural resources conservation), because this two aspect represent two inseparable aspect in doing study management of SDA, because having very important role in supporting efficacy of program of Participatory Action Research (PAR). Pursuant to result of discussion and dig of information of society hence a success main problem identified with society member pursuant to antecedent study (research preliminary) which have been conducted by researcher related to program management of critical farm base on society taken as focus in enable ness is critical condition survey of forest farm, socialization of UU No. 32 year 2009 about management and protection of environment, socialization and training of system of terasiring pattern and plant real correct at farm with high inclination (&gt; 450) having economic value and with vision of environment. Marginally cycle of PAR conducted at this enable ness program is to use technical method, mapping, transect, diagram of Venn, change schema and of livelihood analysis. By using this approach is expected by society have awareness in managing and exploiting environment real correctly. Besides society can direct control to all impact and policy of the policy because related to source of their residence environment and living.<br /> <br />Keywords : Erosion, Critical Farm, Research Preliminary, Participatory Action Research, Mapping, Transect, Diagram of Venn, Change Schema, Analysis livelihood<br /><br />

scholarly journals Optimizing a stroke caregiver support programme in practice with Participatory Action Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Krieger ◽  
F Feron ◽  
E Dorant
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Caregiver Support

Abstract Family caregivers (FCG) play a key role in the day-to-day care of stroke survivors. Most FCG support programmes are complex public health interventions. Often, they are designed top-down without key stakeholder participation. Hence, when implementing these programmes in real world settings, they may experience “teething problems”. Optimization in practice and actively engaging its stakeholders to accurately fit the programme to the needs in practice may enhance the programmés chance of success. The Participatory Action Research (PAR) strategy was chosen for the optimization of a German primary prevention programme for stroke FCGs. Immediately after the development of the preliminary support concept (5 Conceptual Building Blocks - CBB), conducted top-down by the academic research team, iterative PAR-cycles (observe - reflect - plan - act) were applied. Together with the stakeholders (service providers and FCG), three steps were taken: (1) verifying and fitting the preliminary CBBs, (2) detecting, developing, verifying and fitting new blocks, and (3) prioritizing all blocks. For data collection a multi-methodological design was chosen. Through PAR, a matured FCG support concept was obtained, containing eight CBBs. The five preliminary CBBs: ‘Content’, ‘Human resources’, ‘Personalized approach’, ‘Timing’, and ‘Setting’, were optimized and prioritized as core blocks, providing the base for individual caregiver support. Three new CBBs: ‘Network building’, ‘Communication’, and ‘Social safety-net’ were assigned as facilitating blocks, interlinking and securing the programme within the existing support system. PAR was found to be essential for both systematically detecting conceptual weaknesses of the preliminary concept and adjusting its components to the needs of the key stakeholders, before full-scale implementation. Involvement of stakeholders, with high levels of participation, will enhance the acceptance of the matured concept and its feasibility in practice.

YPAR Dreams Deferred? Examining Power Bases for YPAR to Impact Policy and Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 089590482110199
Author(s):  
Melanie Bertrand ◽  
Brian D. Lozenski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Youth Participatory Action Research ◽  
Power Bases ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
New Policies

Practitioners and scholars have argued that youth participatory action research (YPAR) challenges systemic injustice in education, as youth and adults research mechanisms of oppression and propose recommendations. However, oftentimes YPAR does not lead to new policies, as institutional decision-makers ignore youth’s moral pleas and empirical evidence. In this conceptual article, we propose a consideration of the ways in which YPAR can mobilize power bases using youth organizing and institutionally sanctioned decision-making. We argue that being attuned to power bases provides YPAR groups a more reliable means, in comparison to moral pleas, to move from YPAR findings to shifts in policy and practice.

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