2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3-2020) ◽  
pp. 267-278
Author(s):  
de Castro Pitano Sandro ◽  
Rosa Elena Noal ◽  
Cheron Zanini Moretti

The seventh conference of the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) took place in Montreal, Canada, from the 26th to 28th of June, in 2019. Having as title “Repoliticising Participatory/Action Research: From Action Research to Activism”, the event gathered people from different areas of practice coming mostly from the North American countries: Canada, United States and Mexico. The discussion presented here is based on notes made by the authors in the course of the conference, in which 40 words/keywords were identified, serving as a base to debate the validity of the principles of participatory research and action research in its repoliticisation and activism. Thus, we presented a systematisation of some key themes of the conference, among them, the commitment with the rupture: in relation to the traditional practices of research, the role and the social responsibility of the universities and the transforming character of participation, with emphasis in the effort for its repoliticisation and activism.


2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (Suppl_3) ◽  
pp. iii1-iii12
Author(s):  
Carla Reigada ◽  
Attracta Lafferty ◽  
Áine Teahan ◽  
Amanda Phelan ◽  
Liam O’Sullivan ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Price

Aim: The aim of this paper is to propose a participatory action research network where the public are equipped with the tools to become informed and responsible shared research decision-makers who help prioritize, initiate, design, organize and participate in health research through online randomized controlled trials about health and wellbeing.Concept Summary: Public involvement in clinical trials tends to focus on patient values and experience rather than increasing research literacy or fostering active collaboration and informed shared decision-making amongst citizens. Although literature searches reveal bespoke platforms and pockets of participant collaboration in online trials there are no known international research initiatives exploring this perspective through participatory action research. The potential and the limitations of pragmatic "Does it Work?" clinical trials for engaging citizen collaborators is discussed in addition to the capacity of public led online clinical trials to increase research literacy and participant satisfaction.


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