Summary information

Study title

Participatory theatre and walking methods for social research

Creator

Erel, U, Open university

Study number / PID

853134 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-853134 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

The collection contains transcripts from interviews with three groups: (1) migrant mothers of primary school children in London; (2) 13 year old girls from migrant families in London; (3) mothers affected by the No Recourse to Public Funds policy in London. The PASAR research project addresses the UK social science community's need to gain a better understanding of how participatory action research approaches engage marginalised groups in research as co-producers of knowledge. Participatory Action Research, based on the principles of inclusion, valuing all voices and action-oriented interventions allows for engaging marginalized groups into research as a citizenship practice. This project on research methods addresses the UK social science community's need to gain a better understanding of how participatory action research approaches engage marginalised groups in research as co-producers of knowledge. It combines walking methods and participatory theatre to create a space for exploring, sharing and documenting processes of belonging and place making that are crucial to understanding and enacting citizenship. Participatory Action Research, based on the principles of inclusion, valuing all voices and action-oriented interventions allows for engaging marginalized groups into research as a citizenship practice. By doing so the project meets the aims of NCRM's methodological initiative and the interest shown by social science researchers to address the methodological problems associated with researching hard to reach communities. It also responds to the ESRC's thematic priorities 'Influencing Behaviour' and 'A Vibrant and Fair Society'. The project is original by creating a model for bringing together practitioners and marginalized groups to engage with each other through creative methods and innovates by developing a toolkit for training social researchers in walking stories and theatre. The project develops methods and methodological knowledge of participatory...
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Methodology

Data collection period

01/04/2016 - 01/02/2017

Country

United Kingdom

Time dimension

Not available

Analysis unit

Group
Individual

Universe

Not available

Sampling procedure

Not available

Kind of data

Text
Video

Data collection mode

Qualitative interviews, focus groups about the research methods of participatory theatre and walking.Sample: 12 migrant mothers of primary school children in London, 12 13-year old girls from migrant families in London, 20 migrant mothers affected by the No Recourse to Public Funds Policy in London.

Funding information

Grant number

ES/N012224/1

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2018

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available for download to users registered with the UK Data Service.

Related publications

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