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A neutral feminist observer? observation-based research and the politics of feminist knowledge making

10/07/2007

11 pages long

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A neutral feminist observer? observation-based research and the politics of feminist knowledge making

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This paper draws from the author’s own experience as a first-time fieldworker, and from Donna Haraway’s writing on feminist knowledge making, to discuss feminist research in development studies as a necessarily political endeavour. Researcher neutrality in feminist fieldwork is neither possible nor desirable. However, a politically engaged approach to observation-based research entails risks and limitations […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Planning Survey Research

04/04/2019

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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Part of Oxfam’s Research Guidelines series, this guideline gives an overview of how to plan survey research, one of the most widely used tools in research for development. Properly designed survey research is vital to development work because it allows researchers to gather accurate quantitative data on a variety of topics, helping to give development […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Doing Research with Enumerators

07/11/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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Data collection for research projects often requires a team of data collectors or enumerators. Large-scale surveys at household or community levels, and qualitative research with large numbers of enumerators, require well trained and supported enumerators to achieve the best quality data. This Oxfam Research Guideline outlines how to recruit, train and work with enumerators. Enumerators […]

Journal article

The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

05/11/2019

17 pages long

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The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

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Overview

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 […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Youth-Led Participatory Action Research Guides

22/06/2022

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Participatory research challenges the academic tradition in which the scientist is at the center of decisions in the research process. Inspired by popular education, this approach allows members of the community to question their living conditions and develop solutions to improve them from a social justice perspective. These guides were developed and tested as part […]

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About Policy & Practice

Policy & Practice shares knowledge, evidence, and ideas from our experience and from our work in partnership.

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Inequality

Inequality exacerbates poverty and leaves millions of people unable to exercise their rights to a basic standard of life, health, and dignity

Discussion paper

Health and Livelihoods in Rural Angola: A participatory research project

01/01/1998

1 documents

71 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Planners developing basic social services, especially in communities suffering the consequences of conflict, have to respond to a wide range of needs but lack the information necessary for effective planning. This paper is an account of an Oxfam research project in Angola which had a dual aim: to find out more about how rural communities […]

Journal article

Bridging the ‘macro’-‘micro’ divide in policy-oriented research

01/11/1995

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

There is a recognised tension between the development practitioner’s need for timely intelligence on key topics, and the normal routines of academic development studies. Closing that gap involves, among other things, elaborating new ways of organising and doing research. This article, by an academic, is concerned especially with how to combine interactive rapid-appraisal methods with […]

Journal article

Poverty elimination, North-South research collaboration, and the politics of participatory development

01/02/2003

17 pages long

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This paper reflects critically on issues of North-South collaboration and participatory research arising from a project on participatory and sustainable local-level environmental management in the peri-urban area surrounding Kumasi, Ghana. Rapid immigration, uncoordinated conversion of farmland to housing, intensified resource exploitation, and declining water quality and availability are particularly pressing problems there. Collaborative research arrangements […]

Showing 456 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

A neutral feminist observer? observation-based research and the politics of feminist knowledge making

10/07/2007

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

A neutral feminist observer? observation-based research and the politics of feminist knowledge making

Keywords

Overview

This paper draws from the author’s own experience as a first-time fieldworker, and from Donna Haraway’s writing on feminist knowledge making, to discuss feminist research in development studies as a necessarily political endeavour. Researcher neutrality in feminist fieldwork is neither possible nor desirable. However, a politically engaged approach to observation-based research entails risks and limitations […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Planning Survey Research

04/04/2019

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Part of Oxfam’s Research Guidelines series, this guideline gives an overview of how to plan survey research, one of the most widely used tools in research for development. Properly designed survey research is vital to development work because it allows researchers to gather accurate quantitative data on a variety of topics, helping to give development […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Doing Research with Enumerators

07/11/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Data collection for research projects often requires a team of data collectors or enumerators. Large-scale surveys at household or community levels, and qualitative research with large numbers of enumerators, require well trained and supported enumerators to achieve the best quality data. This Oxfam Research Guideline outlines how to recruit, train and work with enumerators. Enumerators […]

Journal article

The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

05/11/2019

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Youth-Led Participatory Action Research Guides

22/06/2022

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Participatory research challenges the academic tradition in which the scientist is at the center of decisions in the research process. Inspired by popular education, this approach allows members of the community to question their living conditions and develop solutions to improve them from a social justice perspective. These guides were developed and tested as part […]

Webpage

About Policy & Practice

Policy & Practice shares knowledge, evidence, and ideas from our experience and from our work in partnership.

Webpage

Inequality

Inequality exacerbates poverty and leaves millions of people unable to exercise their rights to a basic standard of life, health, and dignity

Discussion paper

Health and Livelihoods in Rural Angola: A participatory research project

01/01/1998

1 documents

71 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Planners developing basic social services, especially in communities suffering the consequences of conflict, have to respond to a wide range of needs but lack the information necessary for effective planning. This paper is an account of an Oxfam research project in Angola which had a dual aim: to find out more about how rural communities […]

Journal article

Bridging the ‘macro’-‘micro’ divide in policy-oriented research

01/11/1995

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There is a recognised tension between the development practitioner’s need for timely intelligence on key topics, and the normal routines of academic development studies. Closing that gap involves, among other things, elaborating new ways of organising and doing research. This article, by an academic, is concerned especially with how to combine interactive rapid-appraisal methods with […]

Journal article

Poverty elimination, North-South research collaboration, and the politics of participatory development

01/02/2003

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper reflects critically on issues of North-South collaboration and participatory research arising from a project on participatory and sustainable local-level environmental management in the peri-urban area surrounding Kumasi, Ghana. Rapid immigration, uncoordinated conversion of farmland to housing, intensified resource exploitation, and declining water quality and availability are particularly pressing problems there. Collaborative research arrangements […]

Showing 456 matching results from Policy & Practice

Journal article

A neutral feminist observer? observation-based research and the politics of feminist knowledge making

10/07/2007

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

A neutral feminist observer? observation-based research and the politics of feminist knowledge making

Keywords

Overview

This paper draws from the author’s own experience as a first-time fieldworker, and from Donna Haraway’s writing on feminist knowledge making, to discuss feminist research in development studies as a necessarily political endeavour. Researcher neutrality in feminist fieldwork is neither possible nor desirable. However, a politically engaged approach to observation-based research entails risks and limitations […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Planning Survey Research

04/04/2019

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Part of Oxfam’s Research Guidelines series, this guideline gives an overview of how to plan survey research, one of the most widely used tools in research for development. Properly designed survey research is vital to development work because it allows researchers to gather accurate quantitative data on a variety of topics, helping to give development […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Doing Research with Enumerators

07/11/2018

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Data collection for research projects often requires a team of data collectors or enumerators. Large-scale surveys at household or community levels, and qualitative research with large numbers of enumerators, require well trained and supported enumerators to achieve the best quality data. This Oxfam Research Guideline outlines how to recruit, train and work with enumerators. Enumerators […]

Journal article

The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

05/11/2019

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

The personal is political: a feminist reflection on a journey into participatory arts-based research with sex worker migrants in South Africa

Keywords

Overview

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 […]

Guidelines and toolkits

Youth-Led Participatory Action Research Guides

22/06/2022

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French

Keywords

Overview

Participatory research challenges the academic tradition in which the scientist is at the center of decisions in the research process. Inspired by popular education, this approach allows members of the community to question their living conditions and develop solutions to improve them from a social justice perspective. These guides were developed and tested as part […]

Webpage

About Policy & Practice

Policy & Practice shares knowledge, evidence, and ideas from our experience and from our work in partnership.

Webpage

Inequality

Inequality exacerbates poverty and leaves millions of people unable to exercise their rights to a basic standard of life, health, and dignity

Discussion paper

Health and Livelihoods in Rural Angola: A participatory research project

01/01/1998

1 documents

71 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

Overview

Planners developing basic social services, especially in communities suffering the consequences of conflict, have to respond to a wide range of needs but lack the information necessary for effective planning. This paper is an account of an Oxfam research project in Angola which had a dual aim: to find out more about how rural communities […]

Journal article

Bridging the ‘macro’-‘micro’ divide in policy-oriented research

01/11/1995

11 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

There is a recognised tension between the development practitioner’s need for timely intelligence on key topics, and the normal routines of academic development studies. Closing that gap involves, among other things, elaborating new ways of organising and doing research. This article, by an academic, is concerned especially with how to combine interactive rapid-appraisal methods with […]

Journal article

Poverty elimination, North-South research collaboration, and the politics of participatory development

01/02/2003

17 pages long

Free access through journal website

Keywords

Overview

This paper reflects critically on issues of North-South collaboration and participatory research arising from a project on participatory and sustainable local-level environmental management in the peri-urban area surrounding Kumasi, Ghana. Rapid immigration, uncoordinated conversion of farmland to housing, intensified resource exploitation, and declining water quality and availability are particularly pressing problems there. Collaborative research arrangements […]