How staff and young people relationships impact school mental health self-referral

How staff and young people relationships impact school mental health self-referral

By Barwick, A., Chigwada, S., Giecco, M., Seeney, E., Turner, I., & McPartlan, D.

This is a follow up to a research project that looked at the efficacy of a school’s mental health strategy. A young research team (YRT) collaborated with a researcher to investigate whether relationships between staff and young people impacted whether young people would come forward for . . .

Newcastle upon Tyne, ENG, GB
Educational evaluation in the Mapuce context

Educational evaluation in the Mapuce context

The issue of educational evaluation in Chile is a sensitive one for all indigenous peoples, due largely to the technical and qualificative conception of it, which has no correspondence with the indigenous worldview. Therefore, this essay presents a participatory research experience that began in 2016 and involved forming a research community with a Mapuce . . .

Temuco, CL
Climate Action is My Calling

Climate Action is My Calling

How I got involved in the climate movement and why. There is this idea that when you retire from the work world you will take a break – travel, take up artistic endeavors, take classes or just “veg out” and do nothing. Yet there are other people who use the additional time to get involved with a cause or a volunteer effort. A few years after I retired I was looking for some way to get involved using my skills and to keep . . .

San Diego, CA, US
The benefits of young researchers in a school YPAR project

The benefits of young researchers in a school YPAR project

By McPartlan, D., Burrus, A., Elder, K., Gregory, P., Hillary, M., McCrea, C., Bell, S., Greenup, C., James, C., Liddell, J., Liddell, K., Norwood, E., Rome, A., & Schollick, J.

This project explored the efficacy of a whole school mental health strategy. After an initial Public Patient Involvement (PPI) exercise exploring how best to conduct the research in school, we decided to . . .

Hexham, ENG, GB
Phenomenological Leadership in Participatory Democracy

Phenomenological Leadership in Participatory Democracy

By Alfonso Barreto; George Davy Vera

The main research goal was to study some leaders’ experience in their struggle to implement and exercise the participatory democratic model in Venezuela according to Constitutional requirements. The focus of the research endeavor was twofold: (a) to enhance the Political Science body of knowledge to better understand how this particular Latin American democratic . . .

Maracaibo, VE
COVID-19 and Young People: Impact and Solutions

COVID-19 and Young People: Impact and Solutions

By PRIA Youth (Participatory Research In Asia)

In response to the crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic across the world and its growing impact on the youth population in India, PRIA Youth hosted a webinar on 2nd May 2020. The webinar addressed the following questions: (1) How are young people across India being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic? (2) How are young . . .

New Delhi, IN
Consciousness: Promoting critical citizenship through action research

Consciousness: Promoting critical citizenship through action research

By Elia Fernández-Díaz; Carlos Rodríguez-Hoyos; Adelina Calvo Salvador

Within the framework of an action-research project, we developed transmedia narratives to encourage student reflection on the conditions of workers in the textile industry as a way to help them better understand the global reality in which they live and to encourage them to take part in its . . .

Santander, España
Action Research in a Time of Global Crisis

Action Research in a Time of Global Crisis

This is the text of the keynote address I gave at the CARN-ALARA Conference in Split, Croatia, on October 18, 2019. I spoke on the role of action research in relation to the current global crisis. My talk developed ideas shared at the 2018 conference of the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) regarding the role of the global action research community in responding . .

Rio Rancho, NM, US