Working together, one on one, on a project that feels like it really matters can be intensely rewarding.

If you'd like to work with me, I have written up some guidelines that introduce how we might work together.

In 2008 I expect to supervise 1-2 projects.

To date, I have supervised the following action research projects:

2007 Helen Jeans and Jenny Patient (details to follow).

2006 Peter Chatalos
Towards Ecologies of Grace - Insights from Participating within a Gay Men's Collaborative Inquiry on Building Queer Conscious Community.
Pete catalysed and participated in an intensive collaborative inquiry process over several months in early 2006. It involved him in a search for authenticity and sustainable living which involved important first person inquiry into facilitation and how shadow dynamics can reinforce patriarchal systems of oppression within gay experience. Pete concludes that these dynamics can further disconnect an already marginalised group from their 'ecology of grace'.
Update January 2007: Pete has his paper "Gaia Living with Aids" published in the journal Psychotherapy and Politics International (4(3) 2006). Pete finished this paper before embarking on the thesis.

2005 Rebecca Syrett (pass)
An Inquiry into Action Research within the context of Human Ecology and Health
Bex used her thesis to express her growing passion for action research as an empowerment and awareness practice. Tracking her own learning as a researcher and facilitator, she undertook her project in her role as a health promotion worker with six army wives who wanted to collaboratively explore issues of health in relation to their childrens' relationship to periods of transition. Bex continues to work in many activist contexts, including the Fordhall Community Land initiative.

2004/5 Graccian Mkodzongi (distinction)
Identiy, belonging and change in Rural Zimabwe
Graccian spent time in his old village in Zimbabwe, coming to terms with the enormormity of the social change processes of urbanisation and continuing threads of colonisation of traditional ways by modernity, before suggesting practical ways in which village life might be regenerated. Graccian is now back in Zimbabwe working in a wildlife/community project.

2004 Gill Wyatt (distinction)
Holonic Groupwork
Gill's thesis explored her practice as a groupworker, exploring 'holonic shifts' both in herself, and with her clients, and related complexity, systems and integral theory. Gill presented her work with challenging creativity, and was awarded a distinction. Gill has gone on to present her work in many contexts (one here).

2003 David Mowat (distinction)
Community and All That Jazz
David wrote, directed and facilitated a community musical - called King Cotton - in Barton Hill, Bristol, and asked whether 'social capital' was enhanced (and questioned the social capital model in the process). The show still rolls... see blog entry here and contact Dave here