What is “Critical Participatory Inquiry”?
Learn about action and participatory research methods, and ways to design and carry out research with, not on, communities.
Qual Data Analysis & Action Research
Qualitative data analysis varies by methodology. Learn about approaches for action research in these open access articles.
Engaging with stakeholders: What can we learn from action researchers?
View the webinar and find a multidisciplinary collection of posts and videos from Alfredo Ortiz Aragón, Rosalind Beadle, Ernie Stringer and their colleagues.
Action research for student teachers … not as neat a tidy as we might hope
Colin Forster and Rachel Eperjesi co-authors of the second edition of Action Research for Student Teachers offer tips for researchers who want to study children in classroom settings.
Participatory Action Research as a Tool for Decolonising Research
Decolonisation is not a peripheral but central concern to social research for change. Learn more from Caroline Lenette, author of Participatory Action Research: Ethics and Decolonization.
Books about Action Research Methodologies and Methods
Learn about Sage books about designing, conducting, and analyzing data for action research and other participatory methods across multiple disciplines. You will find open-access preview chapters and a discount code.
Facilitating Community-based research – Starting with ourselves. Tips from Prof. Lesley Wood
Professor Lesley Wood is experienced with engaged, participatory research. In this post she offers researchers advice about how to think about your role.
Ethics and Engagement with Stakeholders: Interview with Prof. Lesley Wood
Professor Lesley Wood explains why it is important to engage with stakeholders and participants, and how to build these practices into your own research.
Reflections on Increasing Participation and Rethinking “Whose Knowledge Counts?” in Service Design
In this guest post Catherine Collins describes ways to put action research principles into practice.
Protecting patients through isolation? Seeking ways to avoid the devastating effects of exclusion of family and friends in the era of Covid19
Using action research to understand Covid-19 experiences, a guest post by Hege Gravdahl Garelius.
A Call for Learning Spaces and Enclaves as 3rd Person Action Research
The 11 co-authors of “Self-in-Field Action Research in Natural Spaces of Encounter: Inclusion, Learning, and Organizational Change” discuss their research.
Make a difference: Impact of participatory arts-based methods
Read this interesting post by Tineke Abma, Barbara Groot, Alie Weerman, Frederiek Overbeek, part of the Action Research series for October 2020.
Kaleidoscope of Voices on Action Research
Read this guest post about collaboration and action research by Melissa Parenti.
Reflections on Increasing Participation and Rethinking “Whose Knowledge Counts?” in Service Design
Reflections about co-creation in research.
Women telling their own stories in action research
Learn about how action researcher Ros Beadle invited Aboriginal women to tell their own stories.
Acting to Learn and Learning to Act: Podcast
Listen to a podcast interview with Dr. Alfredo Ortiz Aragón.
Sentient methods in Action Research—A conversation with Iñigo Retolaza Eguren
Watch this discussion of embodied and sentient action research methods with Iñigo Retolaza Eguren.