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Bridging Social Divides? Using Collaborative Research as an Anti-Poverty Tool
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posted on 2023-05-16, 19:02 authored by Eversole, R, Routh, RThis paper reports on a collaborative research project that shows how participatory social research can be used as a strategy for combating social exclusion. The Crime Prevention Partnership Project brought together dominant and disempowered groups to explore social issues of mutual concern and identify potential solutions. Indigenous Australian undergraduate students played a central role in this project, working with the police as customer service trainees and with the university as members of a project research group. This project became an opportunity to train and empower new researchers who, as people from disadvantaged groups, brought their own knowledge, concerns, and worldviews to a research process that they helped design and carry out themselves. The result was a learning process for all involved, referred to here as multi-directional empowerment. It led to tangible bridge building between mainstream, powerful institutions and a disadvantaged community. The project process offers a model for using participatory research as a framework in which to address development issues. © 2005 Oxfam GB.
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Publication title
Development in PracticeVolume
15Issue
5Pagination
631-642ISSN
0961-4524Publisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
United KingdomRepository Status
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