Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry

Volume 1

Part 1: Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction: Navigating the complex and dynamic landscape of participatory research and inquiry

Sonia M. Ospina, Danny Burns, & Jo Howard

 

Chapter 2: Challenges in the practice of participatory research and inquiry

Danny Burns, Jo Howard, & Sonia M. Ospina

 

Part 2: Key Influences and Foundations of Participatory Research

Chapter 3: Key Influences and Foundations of Participatory Research

Sonia M. Ospina

 

Chapter 4: Paulo Freire's Influence on Participatory Action Research

Fabio C. Campos & Gary L. Anderson

 

Chapter 5: Tropical Empathy: Orlando Fals Borda and Participatory Action Research

Alex Pereira & Joanne Rappaport

 

Chapter 6: Theatre is Knowledge: Augusto Boal's theatre of the oppressed and participatory research

Effie Makepeace

 

Chapter 7: Pragmatism: Linking systems, evolution, and democratization in participatory and action research

Davydd J. Greenwood

 

Chapter 8: Feminism and participatory research: Exploring intersectionality, relationships, and voice in participatory research from a feminist perspective

Batsheva Guy & Brittany Arthur

 

Chapter 9: Indigenous ways of knowing and participatory research

Fiona Cram & Anna Adcock

 

Chapter 10: The history, legacy and future of participatory rural appraisal 

Mariah Cannon, Tessa Lewin, & Robert Chambers

 

Chapter 11: Achieving scope and broad participation in participatory research: The 'dialogue democratic' network-based approach of Björn Gustavsen

Erik Lindhult

 

Chapter 12: Becoming participatory: Some contributions to action research in the UK

Cathy Sharp & Ruth Balogh

 

Chapter 13: Towards ever more extended epistemologies: Pluriversality and decolonisation of knowledges in participatory inquiry

Patricia Carolina Gayá

 

Chapter 14: Action research - participative self in transformative action

Hilary Bradbury

 

Part 3: Critical Issues in the Practice of Participatory Research

Chapter 15: Critical Issues in the practice of participatory research

Jo Howard & Danny Burns

 

Chapter 16: Facilitating participatory research

Bob Dick

 

Chapter 17: Reflexivity and reflection in action research: ‘To locate, again, a through line to the future’

Patta Scott-Villiers

 

Chapter 18: Positionality, academic research and cooperative inquiry: Lessons from participatory research with Roma

Jekatyerina Dunajeva & Violeta Vajda

 

Chapter 19: The fine art of getting lost: Ethics as a guide to transformative learning in participatory research

Mary Brydon-Miller, Alfredo Ortiz Aragón, & Victor J. Freidman

 

Chapter 20: Holding space for emotions in participatory action research: Reflections from the experiences of a youth organisation exploring PAR through creative practices

Liv Kaya Aabye, Gioel Gioacchino, & Fiammetta Wegner

 

Chapter 21: Power analysis for social change: Participatory learning and action

Jethro Pettit

 

Chapter 22: The ethics of co-production in practice: Reflections

Helen Thomas-Hughes & Morag McDermont

 

Chapter 23: Approaches and creative research methods with children and youth

Vicky Johnson & Andy West

 

Chapter 24: Don't leave us out: Disability inclusive participatory research - why and how?

Mary Wickenden & Erika Lopez Franco

 

Chapter 25: Interpeace’s experience with participatory action research in contexts of active and post-conflict

Daniel Hyslop

 

Part 4: Methods and Tools

 

Part 4.1: Dialogic and Deliberative Processes

Chapter 26: Reflections on the Role of Dialogue in Participatory Research and Inquiry

Mariana de Santibañes & Sonia M. Ospina

 

Chapter 27: Reflections on the reflect approach and its multiple evolutions

David Archer

 

Chapter 28: A dialogical approach to knowledge: Grassroots experiences from the south of Mexico

Gustavo Esteva

 

Chapter 29: Feeling-body-thinking approach and methodologies: Towards transformations in intercultural justice

Juan Carlos Giles M.

 

Chapter 30: Art of Hosting frameworks and methods as participatory research

Jodi R. Sandfort & Trupti Sarode

 

Chapter 31: Cooperative inquiry as dialogic process

Jo Howard, Sonia M. Ospina, & Lyle Yorks

 

Chapter 32: Creating spaces for participatory social learning and change with young people

Barry Percy-Smith

 

Chapter 33: Influencing global policy processes through participatory approaches

Erika Lopez Franco & Matt Davies

 

Part 4.2: Digital Technologies in Participatory Research

Chapter 34: Digital affordances for participation and the participation-cube

Tony Roberts

 

Chapter 35: Technologies for citizen inquiry: Participatory research in online communities

Maria Aristeidou, Eileen Scanlon, & Mike Sharples

 

Chapter 36: Interactive radio as a participatory digital research method

Anna Colom

 

Chapter 37: Writing women into Wikipedia

Japleen Pasricha & Annette JE Fisher

 

Chapter 38: Real-time statistics: Working towards community participation with mobile data collection in Oxfam

Simone Lombardini & Emily Tomkys Valteri

 

Chapter 39: Participatory digital mapping as a research method

Jon Corbett, Logan Cochrane, & Yasmine Zeid

 

Volume 2

Part 4.3: Participatory Forms of Action Orientated Research

Chapter 40: Show me the action! Understanding action as a way of knowing in participatory research

Alfredo Ortiz Aragón & Mary Brydon-Miller

 

Chapter 41: Tools for action: Media research as collaborative action research

Bo Reimer

 

Chapter 42: Memorialab: Dialogue, memory and social healing in Basque Country

Iñigo Retolaza Eguren

 

Chapter 43: A participatory self-in-field inquiry method

Hanna Kurland, Victor J. Friedman, Israel Sykes, Ruth Danino Lichtenstein, & Tilda Melamed

 

Chapter 44: The “action” turn: People’s Praxis

Nathalis Wamba

 

Chapter 45: Awareness-based action research: Making systems sense and see themselves

Otto Scharmer, Eva Pomeroy, & Katrin Kaufer

 

Chapter 46: Storytelling as participatory research

Joanna Wheeler & Felix Bivens

 

Chapter 47: Community based participatory research: Embracing Praxis for transformation

Nina Wallerstein, Lorenda Belone, Ellen Burgess, Elizabeth Dickson, Lisa Gibbs, Laura Chanchien Parajon, Margareta Ramgard, Payam Sheikhattari, & Gillian Silver

 

Chapter 48: Research, organizing and policy change: Methods and lessons on the path from participatory action research to a right to counsel in New York City

Alexa Kasdan

 

Chapter 49: The role of collective analysis in generating ownership and action in Systemic Action Research

Danny Burns

 

Part 4.4: Visual and Performative Methods

Chapter 50: Collective becoming: Visual and performative methodologies for participatory research

Tessa Lewin & Jackie Shaw

 

Chapter 51: Arpilleras as participatory research

Sara Kindon, Katia Guiloff, Ximena Riquelme, Fernanda Piraud, Marcela Palomino-Schalscha, Carla Batista, Katia Cisternas, Maribel Marquez-Satyanand, Nadia Batista, Maria-Fernanda Bernal, & Ines Marquez, with Marlena Angermann

 

Chapter 52: Digital story telling and researching women's empowerment in Bangladesh

Samia Afroz Rahim, Sahida Khondaker, & Maheen Sultan

 

Chapter 53: Photovoice

Cathy Vaughan & Sarah Khaw

 

Chapter 54: Asset mapping as a participatory research approach

Elizabeth Lightfoot, Jennifer Blevins, & Amano Dube

 

Chapter 55: Theatre for development as a participatory research tool

Oga Steve Abah

 

Chapter 56: The Method of Enactment and the framework of Design: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Participatory Research

Catalina Alzate

 

Chapter 57: Extended participatory video processes

Jackie Shaw

 

Part 4.5: Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

Chapter 58: Participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning: Taking stock and breaking new ground

Marina Apgar & Will Allen

 

Chapter 59: Promoting adaptive programming through outcome mapping - The ‘Resilient Adolescents in the Syria Crisis’ programme (SAP)

Jan Van Ongevalle, Ana Kvintradze, David Miller, Gaël Rennesson, & Jeanette Lundberg

 

Chapter 60: The Most Significant Change Technique (MSC): A case study of how MSC helps communities unpack intangible outcomes

Jess Dart, Sophie Pinwill, & Avega Bishop

 

Chapter 61: Participatory Theory of Change: Reflecting on multiple views of how change happens

Marina Apgar & Boru Douthwaite

 

Chapter 62: Can voices at scale really be heard? Reflections from ten years of innovation with SenseMaker

Steff Deprez & Irene Guijt

 

Chapter 63: Ripple Effects Mapping: A participatory strategy for measuring program impacts

Rebecca Sero, Debra Hansen, Scott Chazdon, Laura Bohen, Lorie Higgins & Mary Emery

 

Chapter 64: Reality Check Approach and Immersion Research

Dee Jupp

 

Part 4.6: Mixing and Mashing Participatory and Formal Research

Chapter 65: Mixing and mashing participatory and formal research methods

Pauline Oosterhoff

 

Chapter 66: Mixed participatory and formal methods in studying violence towards men who have sex with men in Viet Nam

Tu-Anh Hoang

 

Chapter 67: Transitional ethnic female bodies and kaleidoscopic methodologies: Participatory research, feminist geographies and multi-sited ethnography

Angela Santamaria

 

Chapter 68: Participatory research in healthcare

Maria van den Muijsenbergh, Tomas de Brún, & Mary O’Reilly-de Brún

 

Chapter 69: Building in complementarity: Participatory mixed methods in research, monitoring and learning in modern slavery in India

Sowmyaa Bharadwaj, Stanley Joseph, Anusha Chandrasekharan, & Pradeep Narayanan

 

Chapter 70: Participatory network research: Using visual methods and participatory statistics for value chain analysis

Christian Stein & Lena J. Jaspersen

 

Part 5: Final Reflections

Chapter 71: Participatory research and the need for transformations in a world in crisis

Jo Howard, Sonia M. Ospina, & Danny Burns