Experiments with new technologies are happening in real communities, urban & rural. If they might affect us, for example by threatening our safety or food sovereignty, what should be our …
TyT Field Dispatches: ‘Losing the Plot’ | participatory data collection
What’s that cheesy phrase…? ‘You’ve got to lose yourself to find yourself’? …heard of it? Good quote-of-the-day fodder perhaps, but not conventionally associated with modern agronomy. But then we are doing …
People’s Knowledge and Social Change – Discussing Participatory Research, Learning and Action at the University of Oregon
This workshop (slides available below) discussed how People’s Knowledge is mobilised in social and political processes of social change. Colin Anderson shared examples of how different knowledge processes and systems are …
TyT Field Dispatches – participatory field trials setup
Ok, this is our first post, and so much has already happened… so a quick update to get everyone up to speed: This project is the result of a participatory …
Research and Creativity: Making a Play about Food Poverty in the UK
This article discusses the use of theatre as a creative approach to research on Food poverty in the UK. Three million people in the uk are undernourished – an enduring …
Confronting race, class, gender, ethnic, and other social inequalities in learning and education.
Check out this “Statement of Equity” by the Sustainable Agriculture Education Association. A strong statement indicating a commitment to confronting race, class, gender, ethnic, and other social inequalities in learning …
Food Justice Scholar-Activism and Activist-Scholarship – a new Special Issue
The relationship between research and food justice/sovereignty is simultaneously fraught while also being full of potential. Sorting out how to best enable a transformative and just research practices/praxis is an …
New Curated Reading List – Participatory Video
Participatory Video (PV) is used by groups to explore an issue of mutual concern, to document the opinions and aspirations of those participating, to construct a representation of this process …
What’s Eating Coventry – Film Now Online
This film creatively explore’s the issue of poverty, social justice and how people are eating in the city of Coventry. It also steps back and asks bigger questions about “What’s …
AR+ Transformations Invitation to register. Gathering March 7-10, Chalmers, Sweden.
Action Research + is organizing The AR+ Transformations Gathering, convening over Women’s Day, March 7-10, 2019, hosted by Chalmers University in Gothenburg Sweden. AR+ Transformations Gathering is a community organizing space, designed …