Engaging with stakeholders: What can we learn from action researchers?
Research has more impact when those directly involved have a voice in the process.
Ernie Stringer with the excellent guide, Action Research. Use the code MSPACEQ223 for a 20% discount from Sage, valid through June 2023.
If you want to engage effectively with participants important initial decisions should not be made without their input. What are the critical problems and priorities? Who or what can offer important insights about the background and context? Engaging with stakeholders is central to action research, and valuable in any study, whether qualitative or quantitative. This lively webinar offered the opportunity to learn from experienced action researchers.
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Webinar panelists:
Alfredo Ortiz Aragón, University of the Incarnate Word, USA. Co-author of Action Research 5th edition (2021)
Rosalind Beadle, Research Fellow, Flinders University, College of Medicine and Public Health, Australia. See “Women telling their own stories in action research.”
Ernie Stringer, Curtin University, Australia. Co-author of Action Research 5th edition (2021)
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The MethodSpace focus for October 2020 was on action research, with Mentors in Residence Ernie Stringer and Alfredo Ortiz Aragón. They invited a number of their colleagues and chapter authors to contribute to this series. Enjoy this eclectic, multidisciplinary collection of posts and videos by scholars and practitioners from around the world.
In this guest post Catherine Collins describes ways to put action research principles into practice.