Participatory Research: Working with Vulnerable Groups in Research and Practice

✍ Scribed by Jo Aldridge

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 202
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the nature of participatory research in the social sciences and its role in increasing participation among vulnerable or marginalised populations. Drawing on engaging in-depth case studies, it examines the ways in which inclusion and collaboration in research can be enhanced among vulnerable participants, such as those with profound learning difficulties, victims of abuse and trauma and multiply vulnerable children and young people, and shows how useful it can be with these groups. The book will be an invaluable resource for students, researchers and academics in many countries who want to put participatory research methods into practice.

✦ Table of Contents

PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH
Contents
About the author
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Participation, ‘vulnerability’ and voice
Emergence of participatory research
Concepts of vulnerability in research, policy and practice
Vulnerability and research ethics
Models of participatory research
Participatory research in broader, social and political contexts
Conclusion
2. Participatory research with children and young people
Recognising and including children and young people in research, policy and practice
Ethical considerations in research with children and young people
Participatory research with children and young people
Research with young carers (and their families)
Developing and advancing participatory research methods with young carers
Children’s participation and social change outcomes
Conclusion
3. Involving people with learning difficulties in participatory research
Introduction
Social model of disability and learning difficulty research
Participatory research with people with learning difficulties
Challenges and considerations in participatory research with people with learning difficulties
Some concluding observations
4. Participatory research with victims of abuse and trauma: women victims-survivors of domestic violence
Introduction
Victims of violence, abuse and trauma
Prevalence and impact of domestic violence on women
Ethical and methodological considerations in research with victims-survivors of domestic violence
Working with women victims-survivors of domestic violence in research
Rosie’s narrative
5. Participatory research: interpretation, representation and transformation
Introduction
Analysing and interpreting participatory data
Equalising relationships and transforming researcher roles in participatory research
Transformative participation
Transformative potential of participatory research: some issues and challenges
Conclusion
6. Advancing participatory research
Issues and challenges in participatory research
Developing a Participatory Model
Principles of participation
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
References
Index