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Season 1

May 31, 2023

Episode 11 with Dr. Sujata Khandekar and Mumtaz Shaikh

In this episode, we host Dr. Sujata Khandekar and Mumtaz Shaikh from the Committee of Resource Organizations for Literacy, now known as CORO India. CORO facilitates change through a community-based approach​​ within India's m...

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May 1, 2023

Episode 10 with Davydd Greenwood

In this episode, we host action researcher Dr. Davydd Greenwood. During his 40-year history of action research in Spain, Norway, and New York, he explored issues as diverse as rural exodus, ethnic conflict, industrial coopera...

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March 31, 2023

Episode 9 with Marie Brennan

In this episode, we host activist, action researcher Marie Brennan. Dr. Brennan has been an important and persistent proponent of critical educational and teacher action research in the Australian action research movement. No...

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March 3, 2023

Episode 8 - Martha Farrell: Gender Justice at PRIA with Nandita Bhatt…

This is our first episode paying tribute to a feminist trailblazer who is no longer with us. Dr. Martha Farrell was Director of the International Academy of Lifelong Learning of the Society for Participatory Research in Asia ...

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Jan. 4, 2023

Episode 6 with Alice McIntyre

In this episode, our guest is activist teacher educator Alice McIntyre, known for her use of Photovoice in PAR. She discusses the challenges of her first PAR project with white classroom teachers to make meaning of their whi...

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Nov. 29, 2022

Episode 5 with Andrea Cornwall

Our guest today is Dr. Andrea Cornwall. Dr. Cornwall is a political anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of democracy in participatory research, gender justice and sexuality, and citizen participation. Her work ...

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Oct. 31, 2022

Episode 4 with Brinton Lykes and Brisna Caxaj

In this episode, Brinton Lykes and Brisna Caxaj discuss a long-term feminist participatory action research project supporting Mayan women’s agency in their search for redress for harm suffered during the genocidal violence pe...

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Aug. 30, 2022

Episode 3 with Deborah Barndt and Margarita Antonio

In this episode Deborah Barndt and Margarita Antonio discuss their collaboration on a participatory arts-based research project called VIVA! in Nicaragua the early days of URACCAN - the University of the Autonomous Region of ...

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July 13, 2022

Episode 2 with Renu Khanna

Renu Khanna talks with co-hosts Patricia Maguire and Jessica Oddy. Renu is a trailblazer in participatory action researcher, particularly in women’s health and human rights. In the early 80s, she began using PAR as part of h...

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July 8, 2022

Episode 1 with Marjorie Mbilinyi

Marjorie Mbilinyi talks with co-hosts Patricia Maguire and Jessica Oddy. Marjorie is one of the earliest feminist participatory action researchers. Since the early 1970’s Marjorie has fought for gender and class justice with ...

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