For Spring 2025, I enrolled in LIS 5900, Action Research in Libraries. This class gave me the experience of drafting a proposal for a participatory research project. It was a complex assignment, with a lot of parts: including ethics, literature review, research methods, and peer review.

I chose to focus on a subject that was important to me: creating opportunities for autistic people to socialize in an accepting and non-judgmental space. I envisioned a project between participant-researchers who would collaboratively create a book club administered by and for autistic readers.

Selected works:

April 27, 2025: Research proposal, Autistic Book Club

Feb. 10, 2025: Conceptual map, Autistic Book Club

Feb. 8, 2025: Envisioning an ‘Autistic Book Club’

Feb. 2, 2025: Zine project: Participatory Action Research

Jan. 27, 2025: CITI Training, Certificate of Completion

Jan. 12, 2025: Introductions