Community Research for Participation: From Theory to Method

363 Pages·2012·8.775 MB·English

by  Lisa Goodson, Jenny Phillimore

for participation
From theory to method
Edited by Lisa Goodson and Jenny Phillimore
Community researCh for
partiCipation
from theory to method
Edited by Lisa Goodson and Jenny Phillimore
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Contents
List of figures and tables vii
List of contributors ix
acknowledgements xv
Part One: Theoretical and methodological issues
one Community research: opportunities and challenges 3
Lisa Goodson and Jenny Phillimore
two a critical communicative perspective on community research: 21
reflections on experiences of working with roma in spain
Aitor Gómez and Terese Sordé Marti
three authenticity and validity in community research: looking at age 37
discrimination and urban social interactions in the uK
Andrew Clark, Caroline Holland and Richard Ward
four Community research with Gypsies and travellers in the uK: 55
highlighting and negotiating compromises to reliability and validity
Philip Brown, Lisa Scullion and Pat Niner
five involving community researchers in refugee research in the uK 71
Gaby Atfield, Kavita Brahmbhatt, Hameed Hakimi and
Therese O’Toole
six universities as agents in the empowerment of local communities in 89
Germany, finland and russia
Patricia Bell, Tony Addy, Melinda Madew and Sakari Kainulainen
seven Data analysis and community research: capturing reality on 105
housing estates in Bradford, uK?
Heather Blakey, E.-J. Milne and Louise Kilburn
Part Two: Ethics, power and emotion
eight participation in community research: experiences of community 123
researchers undertaking hiV research in south africa
Maretha Visser
nine power and participation in community research: community 139
profiling in italy
Terri Mannarini
ten the pedagogy of community research: moving out of the ivory 155
tower and into community organisations in Canada
Karen Schwartz, Adje van de Sande and Ann-Marie O’Brien
eleven engaging community researchers in evaluation: looking at the 169
experiences of community partners in school-based projects
in the us
Jenifer Cartland, Holly S. Ruch-Ross and Maryann Mason
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Community research for participation
twelve are we recovery oriented? an australian encounter of learning 185
from people with lived experiences
Liam Buckley, Nadine Cocks, Matthew Scott, Michael Stylianou,
Lisa Brophy, Jayne Lewis, Kieran Halloran and Melissa Petrakis
thirteen ethics in community research: reflections from ethnographic 201
research with first nations people in the us
Barbara Kawulich and Tamra Ogletree
fourteen avoiding ‘best’ being the enemy of ‘good’: using peer interviewer 215
methods for community research in place-based settings in
australia
Deborah Warr, Rosemary Mann and Richard Williams
Part Three: Managing the research process
fifteen mental health service users and carers as researchers: reflections 235
on a qualitative study of citizens’ experiences of compulsory
mental health laws in northern ireland
Damien Kavanagh, Martin Daly, Moira Harper, Gavin Davidson and
Jim Campbell
sixteen Community organisation and community research: women’s 253
struggle for food security in india
Janki Andharia and Neeta Hardikar
seventeen Community researchers in an adolescent risk reduction 269
intervention in Botswana: challenges and opportunities
Bagele Chilisa and Rapelang Chilisa
eighteen recruitment and capacity-building challenges in participatory 283
research involving young people in northern ireland
Claire McCartan, Stephanie Burns and Dirk Schubotz
nineteen translating lives: cross-language community research with polish 299
migrants in the uK
Bogusia Temple and Katarzyna Koterba
twenty mentoring refugee community researchers in the uK: an 315
empowerment tool?
Patricia A. Jones and Ricky Joseph
index 331
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sources of extracts
List of figures and tables
Figures
1.1 the relationship between community researchers’ level of 6
involvement and power and control
7.1 Community analysis timeline 110
10.1 power relations matrix in community research 157
11.1 typical organisational structure for sshs projects 173
17.1 action-oriented intervention 276
18.1 hart’s ladder of young people’s participation 284
20.1 operational domains in a programme context 319
20.2 operational domains of empowerment 322
20.3 mentoring: a tool to link operational domains of community 326
empowerment
Tables
1.1 advantages and disadvantages of community research 14
9.1 Community research in practice: actors involved and 145
tasks performed
15.1 reflections on differing roles relating to a community 246
research team
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notes on contributors
List of contributors
Tony Addy, head of international education, Diaconia University of
Applied Sciences, Finland
[email protected]
Janki Andharia, professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
[email protected]
Gaby Atfield, research associate, Institute for Employment Research,
University of Warwick, UK
[email protected]
Patricia Bell, research associate, Evangelische Hochschule, University of
Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany
[email protected]
Heather Blakey, researcher, International Centre for Participation
Studies, University of Bradford, UK
[email protected]
Kavita Brahmbhatt, consultant, Regional Support Hub, Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
[email protected]
Lisa Brophy, director of research, Mind Australia and senior research
fellow, Centre for Population Health, Policy and Economics, University
of Melbourne
[email protected] [email protected]
Philip Brown, research fellow, Salford Housing and Urban Studies Unit,
University of Salford, UK
[email protected]
Liam Buckley, consumer consultant, St Vincent’s Mental Health,
Melbourne, Australia
[email protected]
Stephanie Burns, PhD student, Centre for Research in Political
Psychology and School of Education, Queen’s University Belfast,
Northern Ireland, UK
[email protected]
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