Mary Brydon-Miller is a leading figure in international action research, working especially with participatory action research processes. She has been and is involved in a range of action research relationships with people in the UK.
In this session, Mary will offer some experiences of using participatory action research and Critical Utopian Action Research in Future Creating Workshops. Her accounts will include work to inquire into re-envisioning the role of higher education in tackling the climate crisis through action research, and will be widely applicable to initiatives intending to contribute to organizational and social change.
One case example will be the Flooding in Appalachian Streams and Headwaters (FLASH) initiative, a transdisciplinary National Science Foundation funded project that uses participatory action research methods to promote community -engaged learning to enhance local flood monitoring and response.
The session will offer a very abbreviated Future Creating Workshop experience, to give participants an idea of what the process looks like in practice.Â
28th January will be the first of a two part programme, with each session stand alone and linked.
Mary Brydon-Miller, Ph.D. is Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville in the US and is currently serving as Extra-ordinary Professor at North-West University in South Africa and adjunct faculty at the University of Technology, Sydney.
She is a participatory action researcher who conducts work in school, community, and organizational settings. She is the editor, with David Coghlan, of the SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research (2014). Her most recent book with Sarah Banks is Ethics in Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being: Cases and Commentaries (2019). Her current work focuses on the areas of Climate Change Education and doctoral training in Action Research.Â
She is part of a transdisciplinary team of community and university-based researchers working on the Flooding in Appalachian Streams and Headwaters (FLASH) initiative, a four-year National Science Foundation funded project designed to bring participatory action research methods together with engineering expertise in hydrology and watershed management to enhance flood monitoring and preparedness and support asset-based development in communities in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia.
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