Participative research (PR) is a research style, or as Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury described it, "an orientation to inquiry" (2008, p.1) applied to make a positive social or organizational impact by involving the object of the research in the process. PR is a bottom-up approach that aligns the power...
More than philanthropy: let’s talk about equitable evaluation!
11th of October is the International Day of the Girl Child, which gave an opportunity for activists, celebrities, influencers and ordinary women to talk about inequity and exclusion gap of girls this week. In apropos of this today I would like to write about equity as an approach in program...
The art of facilitation
Next week I will participate in an exciting project, which I am personally committed to. There will be an international conference in Budapest that will function as the public discourse of the European Union’s ambitious new strategy to boost renovation, called "A Renovation Wave for Europe – Greening our buildings,...
Challenges and benefits of using participatory research methods in evaluation
Not so long ago I finished a research project that incorporated a participatory approach. This ranged from designing the evaluation over the data collection phase to reporting the study. This means, that we applied the fundamental principle of involvement and empowerment of people being researched. In this post, I will...