Researching sexual health: two Participatory Action Research projects in Zimbabwe MIKE KESBY AND FUNGISAI GWANZURA-OTTEMOLLER

2007 ◽  
pp. 97-105
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Participatory Action

A cross-university initiative to enhance SOTL through a students as partners approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Colin Bryson
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Western Washington ◽  
Traditional Structures ◽  
Washington University

This case study evaluates a new initiative to establish a cross-disciplinary forum focusing on enhancing learning, teaching and the student experience. All staff and students are welcome to participate and participants set the agenda themselves. The intention is to have open and informal dialogue and to work in partnership towards setting up collective participatory action-research projects. This is modelled on the Teaching and Learning Academy at Western Washington University (Werder and Otis, 2010). An important aim was to create a space to give voice for those - the so-called ‘hard to reach’- who do not get such opportunities in traditional structures. There have been many challenges to creating a sustainable and successful working model, not least such barriers as communications, creating time and opportunity and working against current dominant cultures. Nonetheless, staff and students, including many international students, have participated and found legitimacy to discuss their own priorities. 

scholarly journals Building the Research Capacity of Clinical Physical Therapists Using a Participatory Action Research Approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 93 (7) ◽  
pp. 923-934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie Janssen ◽  
Leigh Hale ◽  
Brigit Mirfin-Veitch ◽  
Tony Harland
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Physical Therapists ◽  
Journal Club ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Action Research Approach

Background This 2-year study explored the experiences of clinical physical therapists who used a participatory action research (PAR) approach to learn about the practice of clinical research. Objectives The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of physical therapists who were conducting clinical research, facilitated by a PAR approach. Design A mixed-methods research design was used. Methods Physical therapists completed questionnaires, were interviewed, and participated in focus groups prior to and after the 1-year intervention and 1 year later. The research facilitator took field notes. Questionnaire data were analyzed descriptively, and themes were developed from the qualitative data. Twenty-five therapists took part in 4 self-selected groups. Results Three groups actively participated in the PAR research projects (n=14). The remaining 11 therapists decided not to be involved in clinical research projects but took part in the study as participants. After 1 year, one group completed the data collection phase of their research project, and a second group completed their ethics application. The third group ceased their research project but hosted a journal club session. At completion of the study, the experiences of the physical therapists were positive, and their confidence in conducting research and orientation toward research had increased. The perceptions of physical therapists toward research, relationships among individuals, and how the clinical projects were structured influenced the success of the projects. Limitations Only physical therapists of one hospital and no other health care practitioners were included in this study. Conclusions Fourteen physical therapists divided among 3 PAR groups were overall positive about their experiences when they conducted a research project together. This finding shows that a PAR approach can be used as a novel tool to stimulate research participation in clinics.

13. Perspectives on Power and Equity in Community- Based Participatory Action Research Projects

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Bigelow ◽  
Jenna Cushing-Leubner ◽  
Khalid Adam ◽  
Mikow Hang ◽  
Luis Enrique Ortega ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Based

scholarly journals Delivering extension and adult learning outcomes from the Cicerone Project by ‘comparing, measuring, learning and adopting'

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (8) ◽  
pp. 827 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Edwards ◽  
C. Gaden ◽  
R. Marchant ◽  
T. Coventry ◽  
P. Dutton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Pasture Management ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
South Wales

The Cicerone Project was a partnership between livestock producers, researchers and extension specialists on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia that investigated several complex grazing enterprise issues between 1998 and 2006. It was conducted as a Participatory Action Research project, which first surveyed livestock producers to learn of their problems and then carried out investigations according to the Project’s chosen motto of ‘compare – measure – learn – adopt’. The Project included research into footrot diagnosis and an investigation of whole-farmlet livestock and pasture management systems complemented by a multi-faceted extension and education component, which delivered findings to a wide array of stakeholders across the Northern Tablelands and adjacent regions. This paper describes the extension and education methods and outcomes and reflects on how successful the engagement of livestock producers was through a partnership, which focussed on co-learning by all participants. Several different communication approaches were used including the production of 40 newsletters and the delivery of 61 field days. Collaborators also held two symposia, which presented comprehensive overviews of the research results. In the final year of the Project, a roadshow was held to communicate results to a wider audience in neighbouring districts. The results of the two footrot trials, which were conducted as Participatory Action Research projects, led to rapid and substantial changes in the testing regime for virulent footrot, resulting in large savings for livestock producers through more accurate detection of the disease. Other valued extension and industry outcomes were the ability to compare the biophysical and economic performance of different whole farmlets, an appreciation of the value of the whole-farm system approach, the trustworthiness of the results and the stimulation of livestock producers to think more deeply about their management systems, stocking rate and risk. The Project benefited from the research efforts of four postgraduate students and was of benefit to ~300 high school and technical college students and also some 500 university undergraduate students who undertook learning projects in conjunction with Project members and collaborators. This Special Issue of 24 journal papers represents a substantial delivery of the findings from this complex agroecosystem Project, which broke new ground in terms of securing much closer working relationships between livestock producers, scientists and extension specialists. Ultimately, this volume will allow extension of the results of the Cicerone Project to reach a wider audience than has typically been achieved through other Participatory Action Research projects.

scholarly journals In Their Own Words: Female Adolescent Empowerment Through Participation in Participatory Action Research for Sexual Health: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of YPAR Empowerment Outcomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Female Adolescent ◽  
Female Adolescents ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Speaking Up ◽  
The Right

A qualitative meta-synthesis of Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) on sexual health foregrounds how female adolescents voice and enact their empowerment by their participation. Through the synthesis of six studies, seven themes emerged. The female voices showed a progression of agency beginning with an increased self-awareness and altered lived experiences to supporting, educating others, a keener awareness of others’ experiences, and speaking up or against in-accurate information or authoritarian policies. Female adolescents have the right to be heard, articulate their opinions, the right to practice their culture, and ultimately, the right to influence the constraints on their personal and sexual health development.

Street Participatory Action Research in Prison: A Methodology to Challenge Privilege and Power in Correctional Facilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasser Arafat Payne ◽  
Angela Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Exchange Program ◽  
Inside Out

This article presents a prison research model grounded in street participatory action research (Street PAR) methodology but programmatically facilitated in an Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program class. Street PAR’s nine tenets were adapted to a prison setting, and we demonstrate its promise with a brief case study of research projects at one prison location. This article also explores the challenges scholars and incarcerated persons as researchers may face in correctional facilities. Street PAR and Inside-Out can improve prison environments and successful transition to local communities as a function of equipping incarcerated persons with reading, writing, and analytic skill sets.

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