Episodes

Our PARFEM team invites you to the last episode of Season Two. This 10th episode marks the end of a chapter for this podcast, as we are not only wrapping up Season 2, but also bidding farewell to our very own Patricia Maguire, as her journey with us comes to a fork in the road. Our production team, Vanessa and Shikha, interview Patricia Maguire and are co-hosts for this episode. Patricia is a long-time advocate of feminist-informed participatory and action research. Since publishing the groundb...

In this episode, co-hosts Jessica Oddy and Patricia Maguire speak with Elise Denis-Ramirez, Amparo Gonzalez, and Jana Vasil’eva about their FPAR as PhD students advancing gender and reproductive justice, public policy in gender, and agriculture, and the creation and support of grassroots organising with unpaid, long term care workers. Elise Denis-Ramirez is a feminist researcher and consultant who works in gender and reproductive justice research and advocacy. Her expertise covers sexual and re...

In this episode, we speak with Wardarina and Vernie Yocogan-Diano about their feminist participatory action research projects advancing women's rights and development justice through building autonomous feminist movements and organizations with the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development. Wardarina is an activist, feminist, and feminist participatory action research enthusiast. She is originally from Indonesia and moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand 12 years ago to work with APWLD. She's c...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Honor Ford-Smith about her successes and her challenges in bringing feminist values and ways of being to participatory action research with black working-class women in Jamaica as well as communities affected by violence. Dr. Ford-Smith discusses reimagining participatory action research through collaborative or collective performance theater as an approach to knowledge creation and action. Dr. Ford-Smith retired from York University in Toronto, Canada, wher...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Wendy Frisby and Dr. Colleen Reid about their feminist participatory action research projects with community partners and people from marginalized groups who are often excluded from health and community recreation programs. Dr. Wendy Frisby is Professor Emeritus in the School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where she was also Chair of Women's and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts. She has worked with an...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Maggie O'Neill about her journey into the transformative possibilities of participatory research working with female sex workers and migrants and re-imagining participatory action research through biographical, ethnographic methods, and performative arts. Dr. Maggie O'Neill is Professor in Sociology and Criminology at University College Cork, where she's also Director of the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century and UCC Collective Social Futures. ...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Rauni Räsänen and Dr. Mervi Kaukko about their journey into the transformative potential of education and reforming teacher education through action research in Finland. Dr. Rauni Räsänen is a Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Education at the University of Oulu University, Finland. In the 1960s, she started as a primary and secondary school teacher and a provisional supervisor for language teaching. Dr. Räsänen was also a Fulbright Scholar in the U.S. in ...

In this episode, we speak with our guests Dr. Carolette Norwood and Dr. Thembi Carr about putting Black Feminism into practice using community-based participatory research in a reproductive justice project with Black women in Cincinnati. Carolette Norwood is professor and department head of sociology and criminology at Howard University. Dr. Norwood is a Black feminist sociologist whose research explores the implications of violence (structural, spatial, and interpersonal) at the intersection...

In this episode, we speak with our guests Dr. Mary Brydon-Miller and Dr. Miriam Raider-Roth about their successes and challenges bringing feminist values and ways of being to PAR and practitioner inquiry, with a focus on building relational “enclaves” for AR. Dr. Mary Brydon-Miller is a professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville. A participatory action researcher in multiple settings, she is well known for groundbreaking work in covenantal ethi...

In this episode, we speak with our guests Dr. Naomi Joy Godden, Trimita Chakma, and Kavita Naidu. Their Ecofeminist participatory action research (EcoFPAR) paradigm combines the worlds of climate justice, social activism, and Feminist Participatory Action Research for the interconnected planetary health and well-being of humans and more-than-humans. Dr. Naomi Joy Godden is the Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow and senior lecturer at the Centre for People, Place, and Planet at Edith Cowan Univ...