Community-led action research: What you need to know
/This article was featured in the SCDC Weekly -20th August
Community-led action research is an approach that sees communities deciding what issues needs to be researched, designing and carrying out the research themselves, and making use of the results to affect positive change.
It's an approach that ensures community priorities come first, and that other people and organisations help, facilitate, encourage and support the research process to take place.
We can often describe community-led action research as taking place in a cycle of identifying issues, planning, collecting data, carrying out practical actions, and reflecting on the results.
Communities having the knowledge, skills and confidence to carry out this approach is key - and often, we see how some communities face more barriers than others in being heard around the issues important to them.
From a community development perspective, community-led action research is a practical tool for community organisations to use to make positive change happen. It can support them to organise, and to identify the issues they want to address, or the opportunities they want to explore.
Our resource includes all the information you need to know about how community-led action research works, examples of it practice, and updates on the work we're carrying out to support it to take place.
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