Motivating Research, Policy and Practice of "Mutual Implication" through Participatory Action Research

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett G. Stoudt ◽  
Maddy Fox ◽  
Duquann Hinton ◽  
Jessica Ruglis ◽  
Maria Elena Torre
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Policy And Practice

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.

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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