PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH
I employ a participatory action research (PAR) approach in my projects, collaboratively researching alongside residents and neighborhood organizations. Our work seeks to bridge academic and community expertise to ensure findings are directly relevant and actionable to partners involved.
RESIDENT COLLABORATORS
Partner with resident researchers, funded for their time, to define research goals, guide data collection, and analyze outcomes. See community land trusts.
RIGHT TO RESEARCH
Support residents and community partners to define problems and questions, collect and make meaning with data, rather than strictly being subjects of study. See youth-driven design.
COMMUNITY-DRIVEN CHANGE
Facilitate opportunities for community members most impacted by changes to design and shape policy decisions. See youth-driven design.
PAR+Lexicon_Updated+1.31.2020.pdfMIT COLAB PAR LEXICON
This visual language of key PAR concepts identifies practices, precedents, and methodologies associated with participatory action research. Made for MIT CoLab with Emily Duma.