Future Creating Workshop: Participatory Action Research to address climate

The follow-up to our session on Creating meaningful change in communities to address climate change, through participatory Action Research.
About this Event

This is our follow-up to Creating meaningful change in communities to address climate change, through participatory Action Research. 28th January to address climate change,

This method was developed by colleagues from Roskilde University in Denmark as part of their work on Critical Utopian Action Research. It’s a great way to engage groups in developing a shared understanding of the challenges they face, a vision of how they would like things to change, and strategies to reach those common goals.

Mary Brydon-Miller, Ph.D. is Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville in the US and is currently serving as Extra-ordinary Professor at North-West University in South Africa and adjunct faculty at the University of Technology, Sydney.

She is a participatory action researcher who conducts work in school, community, and organizational settings. She is the editor, with David Coghlan, of the SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research (2014). Her most recent book with Sarah Banks is Ethics in Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being: Cases and Commentaries (2019). Her current work focuses on the areas of Climate Change Education and doctoral training in Action Research.

She is part of a transdisciplinary team of community and university-based researchers working on the Flooding in Appalachian Streams and Headwaters (FLASH) initiative, a four-year National Science Foundation funded project designed to bring participatory action research methods together with engineering expertise in hydrology and watershed management to enhance flood monitoring and preparedness and support asset-based development in communities in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia.

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