Participatory research

Indigenous communities globally are at the forefront of developing holistic, place-based responses to the climate crisis, yet their knowledge and leadership remain systematically marginalised in mainstream environmental governance. This article examines two Indigenous-led initiatives on Taiwan’s east coast – the Amis tribe’s post-typhoon recovery and the Atayal tribe’s revitalisation of ancestral farming practices – to […]

In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous communities and their representative federations organise to demand justice, shape forest conservation, and challenge exploitative systems of resource management. This article describes a collaboration involving Indigenous leaders from the San Martín region and scholars from Michigan State University and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Drawing on five years of engagement […]

This article offers a personal reflection of my journey into participatory arts-based research with sex work migrants in South Africa. It begins by sharing some background information of how my own experience as a migrant woman, and my layered (sometimes conflicted) identities, have continued to shape and influence much of my scholarly work, including my […]

Digital storytelling offers a combination of traditional storytelling and new technologies that is attracting attention from feminist researchers aiming to co-create research in empowering ways for participants, allowing them to collaborate, build shared awareness of issues, and share their priority issues with decision-makers and power-holders. This article focuses on digital storytelling in research into the […]

Across Iraq, the number of displaced people in June 2016 exceeded 3.3 million – 10 per cent of the population. In the context of the ongoing crisis in the country, women and girls have been particularly affected and their ability to engage in livelihoods activities has been disrupted. Through a series of studies and projects, […]

In mid-2015, a team of 15 Congolese ‘girl researchers’ were recruited, trained, and mentored by the UK’s Department for International Development-funded La Pépinière programme. They conducted peer-to-peer research to explore the experiences, perceptions, and aspirations of adolescent girls and young women in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in relation to their economic and social empowerment. […]