werden können, um einen "A repeated experience with (participatory research) has been the tension... more werden können, um einen "A repeated experience with (participatory research) has been the tension and contradiction between top down bureaucratic cultures and requirements, tending as they do to standardise, simplify and control, and demands generated at the local level tending as they do to be diverse and complex and to require local-level discretion." (Chambers 1998
This practice note describes the unique features of, and lessons learned from UEval, an innovativ... more This practice note describes the unique features of, and lessons learned from UEval, an innovative one-week ‘evaluation institute’ at the Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta. This initiative responds to an identified community and university need to provide contextual and socially relevant evaluation-focused educational opportunities to learners across disciplines and sectors. UEval is a guided by principles of participatory and experiential learning, and brings together undergraduates, graduates and community professionals as co-learners, for a mutually beneficial and sustainable educational experience. During the week, learners explore and apply evaluation theory through project-based curricula, and develop evaluative responses to community-informed issues.
Health care systems in Europe face many challenges requiring greater integration of health and so... more Health care systems in Europe face many challenges requiring greater integration of health and social care. The health policy response in government financed health systems has varied but a consist ...
Ensuring a receptive context for participatory action researchas a vehicle for change : the examp... more Ensuring a receptive context for participatory action researchas a vehicle for change : the example of community assistance for the elderly in Sweden
Participatory health research is practiced in many countries around the world, drawing from diffe... more Participatory health research is practiced in many countries around the world, drawing from different traditions which are based in various cultures and time periods. In spite of the wide variation in theory and practice, the different traditions show remarkable similarities. This chapter identifies 11 common principles based on the first position paper of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICPHR). References to publications from various countries serve to illustrate each of the 11 criteria.
The objective of this symposium is to establish some conceptual and operational links between par... more The objective of this symposium is to establish some conceptual and operational links between participatory approaches to evaluation research (PAER) principles and organizational change processes. In order to discover some of these critical connections we propose to open a discussion to explore the paradigmatic dimensions of PAER. Essentially, PAER start out from a recognition that evaluation research develops within a pluralistic society and allows evaluation projects to be built upon the ideas, values and aspirations of those taking part at all levels and throughout the whole evaluation process (Diez et al., 2005). In this sense, Gregory (2000) points out how participation allows people to be aware of the rationality behind the evaluation process, and in doing so, increases their involvement in the implementation of an evaluation research project, both in an effective and efficient way. In other words, PAER is a Capacity Building to Evaluation (CBE) strategy. CBE is a context-depe...
Participatory Practice explores the core ideas of participatory practice and how theory and pract... more Participatory Practice explores the core ideas of participatory practice and how theory and practice can be integrated to achieve transformative change. The ideas in the book are founded on two premises: firstly, that transformative practice begins in the everyday stories that people tell about their lives and that practical theory generated from these narratives is the best way to inform both policy and practice. Secondly, that participatory practice is a tool for examining this knowledge in that it allows practitioners to examine the way they view the world and to situate their local practice within bigger social issues. The book is expected to be of interest to both academics and community-based practitioners. Professor Springett commented: “Writing the book was a transformative experience in itself because we had to cross the divide between our different professions. The idea to write it came from our joint concern for the appropriation of the language of participation by many p...
Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being, 2018
In this chapter you will be shown the collaborative process and steps that need to be taken to fr... more In this chapter you will be shown the collaborative process and steps that need to be taken to frame the research. Framing is essentially a way of looking at the world; a frame is a lens of understanding. Frameworks are critical for the interpretation and understanding of practices and lives. The process of framing consists of exploring various, sometimes unarticulated, frameworks and choosing those that are relevant to critically analyze the problems at hand, and offer insights to promote critical collective action. Exercises are presented to assist you in facilitating a group process for framing the research. Short examples throughout the chapter illustrate the concepts discussed, the challenges frequently faced when adopting this approach, and possible solutions.
Partizipative Ansatze erfreuen sich in den Gesundheitswissenschaften zunehmender Beliebtheit info... more Partizipative Ansatze erfreuen sich in den Gesundheitswissenschaften zunehmender Beliebtheit infolge ihres Potenzials, Forschung und Praxis naher zusammenzubringen. In diesem Zusammenhang sind verschiedene Leitlinien entwickelt worden, um Forschenden zu helfen, die Qualitat partizipativer Gesundheitsforschung (PGF) zu bewerten. Hiervon ausgehend entsteht ein Bedarf, die Gute dieser Leitlinien im Lichte aktueller Forschung zu reflektieren. Wir wollten deshalb wissen, wie die Qualitat von PGF im Feld selbst konzeptualisiert wird und haben 13 Forschende in einer phanomenografischen Studie zu ihren Erfahrungen mit PGF befragt. Insgesamt haben wir 15 Kategorien identifiziert, deren Beziehung wir in diesem Beitrag auch visuell zu veranschaulichen versuchen. Die Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass die Dimensionen, die fur die Zuschreibung hoher Qualitat verantwortlich sind, vergleichsweise stabil (geblieben) sind. Diese Verlasslichkeit ist u.E. vielversprechend mit Blick auf die Entwicklung von Qu...
Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being, 2018
This final Chapter sheds light on the reasons why participatory research is so worth all the effo... more This final Chapter sheds light on the reasons why participatory research is so worth all the effort. It comes back to the essence of participatory research: the communicative focus, the relational, the reflexivity, the co-labouring, the critical and the creative dimensions. Participatory research is also a research approach that addresses traditional power imbalances to reveal new ways of knowing and acting.
This chapter presents an overview of some of the influences on the development of PHR in the four... more This chapter presents an overview of some of the influences on the development of PHR in the four nations of the UK in the context of the changing political and economic landscape of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Four of the strands that have informed PHR have been the overseas development tradition, community development, teacher education action research and the work of Peter Reason in Management Science. A strong impetus to development within health came from the healthy cities and health promotion movements of the 1980s and 1990s which were further encouraged by the public and patient engagement initiative with the NHS in the early 2000s. More recently the trend towards public engagement by universities and the need to demonstrate research impact have provided a further challenge as well as an opportunity for this type of research to demonstrate its benefits. However, the tension between top-down bureaucracy and grassroots ownership and control inherent in P...
werden können, um einen "A repeated experience with (participatory research) has been the tension... more werden können, um einen "A repeated experience with (participatory research) has been the tension and contradiction between top down bureaucratic cultures and requirements, tending as they do to standardise, simplify and control, and demands generated at the local level tending as they do to be diverse and complex and to require local-level discretion." (Chambers 1998
This practice note describes the unique features of, and lessons learned from UEval, an innovativ... more This practice note describes the unique features of, and lessons learned from UEval, an innovative one-week ‘evaluation institute’ at the Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta. This initiative responds to an identified community and university need to provide contextual and socially relevant evaluation-focused educational opportunities to learners across disciplines and sectors. UEval is a guided by principles of participatory and experiential learning, and brings together undergraduates, graduates and community professionals as co-learners, for a mutually beneficial and sustainable educational experience. During the week, learners explore and apply evaluation theory through project-based curricula, and develop evaluative responses to community-informed issues.
Health care systems in Europe face many challenges requiring greater integration of health and so... more Health care systems in Europe face many challenges requiring greater integration of health and social care. The health policy response in government financed health systems has varied but a consist ...
Ensuring a receptive context for participatory action researchas a vehicle for change : the examp... more Ensuring a receptive context for participatory action researchas a vehicle for change : the example of community assistance for the elderly in Sweden
Participatory health research is practiced in many countries around the world, drawing from diffe... more Participatory health research is practiced in many countries around the world, drawing from different traditions which are based in various cultures and time periods. In spite of the wide variation in theory and practice, the different traditions show remarkable similarities. This chapter identifies 11 common principles based on the first position paper of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICPHR). References to publications from various countries serve to illustrate each of the 11 criteria.
The objective of this symposium is to establish some conceptual and operational links between par... more The objective of this symposium is to establish some conceptual and operational links between participatory approaches to evaluation research (PAER) principles and organizational change processes. In order to discover some of these critical connections we propose to open a discussion to explore the paradigmatic dimensions of PAER. Essentially, PAER start out from a recognition that evaluation research develops within a pluralistic society and allows evaluation projects to be built upon the ideas, values and aspirations of those taking part at all levels and throughout the whole evaluation process (Diez et al., 2005). In this sense, Gregory (2000) points out how participation allows people to be aware of the rationality behind the evaluation process, and in doing so, increases their involvement in the implementation of an evaluation research project, both in an effective and efficient way. In other words, PAER is a Capacity Building to Evaluation (CBE) strategy. CBE is a context-depe...
Participatory Practice explores the core ideas of participatory practice and how theory and pract... more Participatory Practice explores the core ideas of participatory practice and how theory and practice can be integrated to achieve transformative change. The ideas in the book are founded on two premises: firstly, that transformative practice begins in the everyday stories that people tell about their lives and that practical theory generated from these narratives is the best way to inform both policy and practice. Secondly, that participatory practice is a tool for examining this knowledge in that it allows practitioners to examine the way they view the world and to situate their local practice within bigger social issues. The book is expected to be of interest to both academics and community-based practitioners. Professor Springett commented: “Writing the book was a transformative experience in itself because we had to cross the divide between our different professions. The idea to write it came from our joint concern for the appropriation of the language of participation by many p...
Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being, 2018
In this chapter you will be shown the collaborative process and steps that need to be taken to fr... more In this chapter you will be shown the collaborative process and steps that need to be taken to frame the research. Framing is essentially a way of looking at the world; a frame is a lens of understanding. Frameworks are critical for the interpretation and understanding of practices and lives. The process of framing consists of exploring various, sometimes unarticulated, frameworks and choosing those that are relevant to critically analyze the problems at hand, and offer insights to promote critical collective action. Exercises are presented to assist you in facilitating a group process for framing the research. Short examples throughout the chapter illustrate the concepts discussed, the challenges frequently faced when adopting this approach, and possible solutions.
Partizipative Ansatze erfreuen sich in den Gesundheitswissenschaften zunehmender Beliebtheit info... more Partizipative Ansatze erfreuen sich in den Gesundheitswissenschaften zunehmender Beliebtheit infolge ihres Potenzials, Forschung und Praxis naher zusammenzubringen. In diesem Zusammenhang sind verschiedene Leitlinien entwickelt worden, um Forschenden zu helfen, die Qualitat partizipativer Gesundheitsforschung (PGF) zu bewerten. Hiervon ausgehend entsteht ein Bedarf, die Gute dieser Leitlinien im Lichte aktueller Forschung zu reflektieren. Wir wollten deshalb wissen, wie die Qualitat von PGF im Feld selbst konzeptualisiert wird und haben 13 Forschende in einer phanomenografischen Studie zu ihren Erfahrungen mit PGF befragt. Insgesamt haben wir 15 Kategorien identifiziert, deren Beziehung wir in diesem Beitrag auch visuell zu veranschaulichen versuchen. Die Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass die Dimensionen, die fur die Zuschreibung hoher Qualitat verantwortlich sind, vergleichsweise stabil (geblieben) sind. Diese Verlasslichkeit ist u.E. vielversprechend mit Blick auf die Entwicklung von Qu...
Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being, 2018
This final Chapter sheds light on the reasons why participatory research is so worth all the effo... more This final Chapter sheds light on the reasons why participatory research is so worth all the effort. It comes back to the essence of participatory research: the communicative focus, the relational, the reflexivity, the co-labouring, the critical and the creative dimensions. Participatory research is also a research approach that addresses traditional power imbalances to reveal new ways of knowing and acting.
This chapter presents an overview of some of the influences on the development of PHR in the four... more This chapter presents an overview of some of the influences on the development of PHR in the four nations of the UK in the context of the changing political and economic landscape of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Four of the strands that have informed PHR have been the overseas development tradition, community development, teacher education action research and the work of Peter Reason in Management Science. A strong impetus to development within health came from the healthy cities and health promotion movements of the 1980s and 1990s which were further encouraged by the public and patient engagement initiative with the NHS in the early 2000s. More recently the trend towards public engagement by universities and the need to demonstrate research impact have provided a further challenge as well as an opportunity for this type of research to demonstrate its benefits. However, the tension between top-down bureaucracy and grassroots ownership and control inherent in P...
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