Juggling Multiple Roles or Falling Between all Stools? Insider Action Research in a Collaborative Agricultural Research Program in Southeast Asia

Sociologus ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-98
Author(s):  
Andreas Neef ◽  
Rupert Friederichsen ◽  
Dieter Neubert
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Insider Action Research

Getting beneath the surface in program planning, monitoring and evaluation: Learning from use of participatory action research and theory of change in the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Marina Apgar ◽  
Will Allen ◽  
Joelle Albert ◽  
Boru Douthwaite ◽  
Rodrigo Paz Ybarnegaray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Program Planning ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
Starting Point

Many rural poor and marginalized people strive to make a living in social-ecological systems that are characterized by multiple and often inequitable interactions across agents, scale and space. Uncertainty and inequality in such systems require research and development interventions to be adaptive, support learning and to engage with underlying drivers of poverty. Such complexity-aware approaches to planning, monitoring and evaluating development interventions are gaining strength, yet, there is still little empirical evidence of what it takes to implement them in practice. In this paper, we share learning from an agricultural research program that used participatory action research and theory of change to foster learning and support transformative change in aquatic agricultural systems. We reflect on our use of critical reflection within participatory agricultural research interventions, and our use of theory of change to collectively surface and revisit assumptions about how change happens. We share learning on the importance of being strengths-based in engaging stakeholders across scales and building a common goal as a starting point, and then staging a more critical practice as capacity is built and opportunities for digging deeper emerge.

Rehabilitation of the long-term patient an action research program in milieu therapy

1969 ◽  
Vol 22 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 493-503
Author(s):  
Florence W. Rosenstock ◽  
Martin Goldman ◽  
Robert Rothenberg
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Milieu Therapy

Insider action research towards companywide sustainable product innovation: ecodesign transition framework

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabien Brones ◽  
Eduardo Zancul ◽  
Marly M. Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sustainable Innovation ◽  
Insider Action Research ◽  
Main Action ◽  
A Company ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThis study discusses the application of Insider Action Research to the systematic integration of an environmental perspective into industrial product innovation processes and projects. Applying Insider Action Research, it aims at a broader integration between top-down and bottom-up and soft and hard perspectives in the intersection of ecodesign and innovation and project management disciplines.Design/methodology/approachThe research design is based on action research and specificities from Insider Action Research to capture the change and transition aspects involving two main action research cycles. The longitudinal five-year research was carried out within a Brazilian cosmetics company. The outcomes of these cycles are analysed including customisation of ecodesign tools and related application, and views of different stakeholders of the challenge for the transition.FindingsThis paper describes an action research application aiming at faster learning loops in the field of sustainable innovation management. As a second contribution, an Ecodesign Transition Framework (ETF) is proposed, combining both technical and soft sides. The proposed framework is structured in three levels (strategic, tactical and operational), with two complementary perspectives of a mature ecodesign pattern and a transition pathway.Practical implicationsThe action research led to the intended outcomes both on the applied side, with increased diffusion of ecodesign in the company, and on the research side, with the ETF formulation and application. Practitioners interested in sustainable innovation can follow the ETF procedures, challenges faced, lessons learnt and conclusions.Originality/valueThe Insider Action Research addressed the literature gap to better relate the recommendations in the field to business reality. The resulting ETF brings a novel perspective for integrating environmental considerations in the product innovation process of a company. It organises the soft issues to be considered for the necessary transition towards such integration, consolidating and advancing previous theoretical views of ecodesign, with associated new practical implications.

scholarly journals Youth Have A Voice - Qualitative Exploration Of A Participatory Action-Research Program

2018 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catia Branquinho ◽  
Ana Cerqueira ◽  
Lucia Ramiro ◽  
Margarida Gaspar de Matos
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

The regulation of IGF-1 by leptin in the pig is tissue specific and independent of changes in growth hormone11Purdue University Agricultural Research Program # 16653.

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 522-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kolapo M. Ajuwon ◽  
Joanne L. Kuske ◽  
Darryl Ragland ◽  
Olayiwola Adeola ◽  
Deana L. Hancock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Tissue Specific
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