Critically Engaging Participatory Action Research

Sara Kindon has worked for thirty years in a range of community-based, participatory projects with Indigenous communities, women, young people and migrants and former refugees and in a range of places including Costa Rica, Indonesia, Aotearoa and Oceania. Since 2006, she has provided research support to refugee-background communities and refugee-led organisations advocating for educational equity in the tertiary sector, improved service delivery, and more holistic approaches to refugee resettlement in New Zealand. This work, using a range of creative and arts-based approaches, has informed the establishment of the NZ National Tertiary Network to Support Refugee Background Learners and the NZ Government’s new Community Organisation Refugee Sponsorship Programme. She is the first female Professor of Human Geography and Development Studies at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, a wife, mother, occasional dancer and poet. Rachel Pain is a Professor of Human Geography at Newcastle University in the UK. Her research focuses on violence, fear and trauma, with gender-based violence a particular interest, and analyses connections between intimate, community and international scales. Her work is informed by feminist theory and participatory action research. She collaborates on this research with public and voluntary sector organisations, and with survivor groups. Mike Kesby is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of St Andrews Scotland UK. His research focuses on a range of health issues in Southern and Eastern Africa (HIV, sexual health and gender relations and most recently antimicrobial resistance in UTIs). His work is informed by participatory action research and feminist, post-structuralist, and latterly new materialist theory. He uses participatory video and other creative methods in collaborations with a range of academic, governmental, and non-governmental organisations, and grassroots citizens.

'1. Critically Engaging Participatory Action Research. 2. “Can We Track Human Dignity?”: Critical Participatory Ethics and Care. 3. We Sing the Land: Researching for, with and as Country in North East Arnhem Land, Australia. 4. Radical Imaginings: Queering the Politics and Praxis of Participatory Arts-based Research. 5. Mapping Our Home: Using Participatory Mapping to Challenge Police Violence in the South Bronx. 6. Using Participatory Action Research for Performing Stories and Imagining Inclusive Communities. 7. ‘You Think Too Much!’: Emotional Geographies of Participatory Action Research. 8. Pathways to Scaling Social Inclusion Innovation through Participatory Action Research. 9. Movement Memories in the Afterlife of Participatory Action Research (PAR): Dreaming and Forgiveness Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (NPIC)?.