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action research ... entrypoints for practitioners |
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Action Research is an umbrella term covering the accelerating number of approaches to learning-in-action being innovated in fields like development, education, health, management, regeneration, human ecology... and more. On the right are links to sites, tools and resources that newcomers to action research practice based in Scotland might find helpful. The following links are to reports from two year-long collaborative inquiries I have facilitated: Collaborative Rural Leadership Programme report Get Your Voice Heard (BME/Professionals) report Below are links that provide a 'Taster' of more in-depth material explored on the CPD Masters' accredited course: Action Research overview: Bath University Management School papers If you're just starting out in the world of 'participation' and 'action research', I have written a '2 sider' that may help: 'First person' inquiry: 'know thyself' 'Second Person' Inquiry: 'researching practice together' 'Third Person' Inquiry: 'whole system change' Alan AtKisson's 'amoeba' model: how innovations spread Contact me here to inquire about the Continuing Professional Development Action Research programme (20 M-level credits from Strathclyde University); |
Links to helpful sites: Public sector / Funders These sites have useful resources and pointers Scottish Communities Action Research Fund (SCARF) Carnegie UK Trust NGOs PARnet Learning Link Scotland Oxfam Scotland Poverty Alliance Scotland |
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My professional practice is grounded in over ten years' experience in popular education, groupwork faciliation and action learning/research consultancy. I am a Teaching Fellow with the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and a doctoral student with the University of Bath Management School's Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice. |
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