Community Research for Participation: From Theory to Method

Community research forparticipation
Contents
List of figures and tables
	Figures
	Tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Part 1.  Theoretical and methodological issues
1. Community research: opportunities and challenges
	Introduction
	Community research and social science
	Community research, policy evaluation and the policy process
	When and why community research is appropriate
	Methodological challenges
	Structure of the book
2. A critical communicative perspective on community research: reflections on experiences of working with Roma in Spain
	Introduction
	Dialogic turn in societies and social sciences
	Theoretical discussion
	Critical communicative methodology in practice
	Key learning
	Conclusions
3. Authenticity and validity in community research: looking at age discrimination and urban social interactions in the UK
	Chapter aims
	Introduction
	Validity and authenticity in research
	Community research in practice
	Validity and authenticity in research design
	Validity and authenticity in data collection and analysis
	Validity and authenticity in dissemination
	Conclusion
	Discussion questions
4. Community research with Gypsies and Travellers in the UK: highlighting and negotiating compromises to reliability and validity
	Chapter aims
	Introduction
	The importance of a community-based approach when assessing accommodation needs
	The challenges for community-based approaches when assessing accommodation needs
	Community research in practice
	Key learning
	Conclusion
5. Involving community researchers in refugee research in the UK
	Introduction
	Theoretical reflections on insider/outsider research
	Community research in practice
	Key learning
	Discussion questions
6. Universities as agents in the empowerment of local communities in Germany, Finland and Russia
	Introduction
	Theoretical background
	Factors for a working model
	An inclusive approach to research methodology
	Key learning points
	Conclusion
	Discussion questions
7. Data analysis and community research: capturing reality on housing estates in Bradford, UK?
	Introduction
	Analysis in participatory research
	Community analysis in practice
	Community map-making
	Visual focus groups
	Team meetings
	Policy workshop
	Discussion questions
Part 2: Ethics, power and emotion
8. Participation in community research: experiences of community researchers undertaking 
HIV research in South Africa
	Introduction
	Description of the research project
	CRs’ experiences and challenges
	Reflections
	Key learning
	Conclusion
9. Power and participation in community research: community profiling in Italy
	Introduction
	Theoretical discussion
	Community research in practice
	Key learning
10. The pedagogy of community research: moving out of the ivory tower and into community organisations in Canada
	Introduction
	Theoretical context
	Community research in practice
	Description of one research collaboration
	Reflections on the community research approach adopted
	Participation from the students’ perspective
	Participation from the community perspective
	Key learning
11. Engaging community researchers in evaluation: looking at the experiences of community partners in school-based projects in the US
	Introduction
	Theoretical discussion
	Community research in practice
	Conclusion
12. Are we recovery oriented? An Australian encounter of learning from people with lived experiences
	Introduction
	Embedding a recovery approach to mental health service for people with serious and enduring symptoms of mental ill health and complex needs
	St Vincent’s Mental Health: achieving a paradigm shift to a recovery orientation in clinical services
	Mind: supporting mental health recovery
	Service-level recovery-orientation evaluation instruments
	Background to the research project
13. Ethics in community research: reflections from ethnographic research with First Nations people in the US
	Introduction
	Historical overview of ethical research concerns
	Harm to the community by research studies
	Ethical research from a culturally respectful stance
	Guidelines for researchers to follow in conducting research
	Dimensions and development of an Institutional Review Board (IRB) document
	Key learning
	Conclusion
	Discussion questions
14. Avoiding ‘best’ being the enemy of ‘good’: using peer interviewer methods for community research in place-based settings in Australia
	Introduction: peer interviewing as community research
	Theoretical discussion: the (im)possibility of community?
	Community research in practice: peer interviewing in the neighbourhood
	Key learning
	Conclusion
	Discussion questions
Part 3: Managing the research process
15. Mental health service users and carers as researchers: reflections on a qualitative study of citizens’ experiences of compulsory mental health laws in Northern Ireland
	Introduction
	Mental health service users and carers as researchers
	Methodology
	Discussion
	Key learning
	Discussion questions
16. munity organisation and community research: women’s struggle for food security in India
	Introduction
	Community organisation and the work of Area Networking and Development Initiatives (ANANDI)
	The context and idea of community research
	Identifying aspects of the inquiry
	Emergence of a new instrument: towards legitimating indigenous knowledge
	Process of data collection and triangulation
	Developing shared meaning, raising consciousness: towards analysis and action
	The impact
	Key learning
17. Community researchers in an adolescent risk reduction intervention in Botswana: challenges and opportunities
	Introduction
	The adolescent risk reduction intervention
	Community engagement in the research process
	Implementing the action-oriented intervention
	Training adolescents as co-researchers
	Data collection
	Building group togetherness through talking circles
	Parental involvement
	Validity frameworks
	Conclusion
18. Recruitment and capacity-building challenges in participatory research involving young people in Northern Ireland
	Introduction
	Theoretical background
	Community research in practice
	Key learning
	Conclusion: or does peer research mean better research?
19. Translating lives: cross-language community research with 
Polish migrants in the UK
	Introduction
	Theoretical discussion
	Community research in practice3
	Key learning
	Summary
20. Mentoring refugee community researchers in the UK:  an empowerment tool?
	Introduction
	Empowerment: an emancipatory process?
	Mentoring as an empowerment tool?
	Community research in practice
	Programme-wide approach
	Empowerment via mentoring
	Sustaining engagement
	Problem resolution
	Organisational structures
	Links to others
	Critical engagement and assertive participation
	Conclusion
Index
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