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Participatory research methods enable people to play an active and influential role in decisions that affect their lives.

Introducing Participatory Methods

What are Participatory Methods?

Principles, foundations and measuring quality

Why fund Participatory Methods?

The benefits of supporting participatory methods and solutions to challenges

How to navigate ethical dilemmas

Approaches, resources and practical advice


Practical resources to inspire your work

Methodologies

Explore recent thinking and innovation about how to design participatory processes.

This includes an introduction to Participatory Action Research as an umbrella approach.

Case studies

Explore the who, what, where, why and how

Tools

Step-by-step guides used in projects


Featured

Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry

Chapter summaries and related resources

People-driven solutions

How to facilitate deep participation for systemic change through Systemic Action Research programming

Participatory Video in Kenya

“Seeing” conflict generated by green energy projects

This website is curated by the Participation, Inclusion and Social Change cluster at the Institute of Development Studies. The cluster collaborates with the University of Sussex on their commitment to participatory and community-led research and this website has received contributions of content and funding by the Sussex Participatory Research Network and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA).

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Email: participate@ids.ac.uk


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