A Participatory Action Research Field Guide

Copyright

2020

Published By

Conservation Law Foundation

This guide for communities interested in Participatory Action Research (PAR) describes how the partners in the Healthy Neighborhoods Study do research in 9 communities in Greater Metropolitan Boston. It includes principles to guide the practice of PAR, an overview of the process of setting up a PAR Project, support for developing research questions and tools, guidance for collecting and analyzing data, support for developing action projects based on the research, and documentation to support PAR, including partner and resident researcher agreements, training facilitation guides, action project facilitation guides.