Community-Based Participatory Research
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Item Learning to listen: Foundations of teaching and facilitating of participatory and community based research(University of Toronto Press, 2014) Hall, Budd LThis chapter by Budd L. Hall was published in Learning and Teaching Community-Based Research: Linking Pedagogy to Practice, edited by Catherine Etmanski and Teresa Dawson. Hall looks back on how he learned and later taught participatory and community-based research (CBR). It draws on his early work in Tanzania in the 1970s, where the evaluation of a health education campaign exposed the limits of conventional survey methods. The chapter outlines five learning objectives: knowing who we are, learning to listen, the centrality of values and commitment, openness to multiple ways of creating and representing knowledge, and the meaning of action. It uses exercises like the Power Flower and poetry to help students listen better. The chapter concludes that CBR is a set of principles rather than a fixed method and that its results should belong to the community.Item Despite knowledge democracy and community-based participatory action research: Voices from the global south and excluded north still missing(Sage Publications, 2015) Openjuru, George Ladaah; Jaitli, Namrata; Tandon, Rajesh; Hall, Budd LThe primary purpose for this special issue of Action Research Journal (ARJ) focusing on knowledge democracy, community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) was to draw attention to and raise debate about knowledge exclusion of and alternative forms of knowing in the global South as well as to bring to the fore the perspective of authors from the global South. We understand the global South to include the excluded epistemologies from the global North such as Indigenous Researchers from the First Nations People from Canada. Reflecting on the 12 submissions that were made for this special issue reveals how even within supportive knowledge and research paradigms that are meant to promote marginalized scholarships, the global South and excluded North still remains excluded.Item Majority-World foundations of community-based research(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) Hall, Budd L; Tandon, RajeshThis chapter explores the majority-world foundations of community-based research with a particular focus on the rise of participatory research (PR) in social movement and civil society settings in the global South and its subsequent spread to the North, eventually finding its way into universities. The authors were involved in both the creation of the discourse and the spread of the initial ideas through the International Participatory Research Network. In the 1970s, Rajesh Tandon came to his initial thinking about participatory research while working with tribal peoples in Rajasthan, India. Budd Hall was working at the Institute for Adult Education in Tanzania during those days. The chapter challenges the Eurocentric bias of much contemporary scholarship in the field of community-based research (CBR). It closes with three challenges to contemporary scholars.Item Mobilizing community and academic knowledge for transformative change: The story of the UNESCO Chair in community based research and social responsibility in higher education(The Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s IdeaLab, 2017) Hall, Budd L; Tandon, RajeshWhat role can higher education play in advancing knowledge democracy and fulfilling its social responsibility? This paper co-authored by Dr. Budd L. Hall and Dr. Rajesh Tandon reflects the establishment, evolution, and contributions of the UNESCO chair in community-based research and social responsibility in higher education. Established in July 2012 as a unique co-chair partnership bridging the University of Victoria (Canada) and Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA, India). This paper outlines the effectiveness of a distinctive global North-South co-chair method in connecting academic institutions with grassroots practitioners to promote knowledge and democracy. The paper explores how universities should collaborate with communities in the co-creation of knowledge to promote social responsibility, inclusion, and sustainable development. Through its three core domains, knowledge mobilization, policy advocacy, and capacity building, the chair has generated substantial, systemic impact. Through global reports, policy dialogues, and training programs, the Chair has influenced higher education policy, fostered international networks, and contributed to embedding engagement and participatory research into the everyday functions of universities. This paper demonstrates how universities can contribute to social change by working closely with communities, promoting sustainable development, and strengthening their social responsibility.Item Knowledge for change: Mentorship training program(UNESCO Chair, 2019) Hall, Budd L; Tandon, RajeshThis report documents Cohort II of the Knowledge for Change (K4C) Mentorship Training Programme, a 21-week course run by the University of Victoria and PRIA under the UNESCO Chair. It covers the programme's structure of online learning, a two-week residency, and local fieldwork and profiles the twelve mentors from hubs in India, Canada, Cuba, and Malaysia. The residency, split between UVic and Simon Fraser University, included arts-based research training, Indigenous knowledge sessions, site visits to organisations such as the Victoria Native Friendship Centre and PEERS Victoria, and a public World Cafe event on the Sustainable Development Goals. Mentor testimonials describe the training's impact on their understanding of community-based participatory research and cross-cultural knowledge exchange. The report closes with summaries of field study projects each mentor will carry out locally, spanning cultural restoration, youth engagement, gender equity, and drug policy reform.Item India launch of the UNESCO Chair in community-based research and social responsibility in higher education(UNESCO Chair, 2012-12) Hall, Budd L; Tandon, RajeshItem Training the next generation of community based researchers: A guide for trainers(Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) & University of Victoria, 2016) Tandon, Rajesh; Hall, Budd L; Lepore, Walter; Singh, WafaThis guide by Rajesh Tandon, Budd Hall, Walter Lepore, and Wafa Singh addresses a gap in community-based research (CBR). While the field itself has grown quickly, little attention has gone into how to teach it. It opens by defining CBR against conventional research, positioning it as a route to knowledge democracy where community members, not only academics, hold research expertise. The guide then draws on the NextGen Project, a global study surveying how CBR is currently taught, to report findings on the gap between demand for training and its availability, and the reliance on self-directed learning over formal instruction. From these findings, it distills a five-part pedagogical framework, covering research ethics, power and partnership, multiple modes of enquiry, the balance between classroom and field, and the researcher's role as facilitator, illustrated throughout with training practices from institutions worldwide, including PRIA's own field-based, participatory methodology.Item Challenging the master’s tools: Pedagogies of community-based participatory research(2014) Hall, Budd L; Etmanski, CatherineItem Knowledge democracy on the move(2021) Hall, Budd LItem The power of creativity, knowledge and action in knowledge mobilization: Reflections from international work(Canadian Commission for UNESCO, 2020-05) Tandon, Rajesh; Hall, Budd LIn this paper, Dr. Budd Hall and Dr. Rajesh Tandon examine how knowledge mobilization can become a more effective tool for social transformation when it is integrated throughout the research process rather than treated as a final dissemination activity. Drawing on over four decades of community-based participatory research (CBPR) across the global South and excluded North, the authors contend that KMb is most powerful when embedded in research from the outset, rather than added after the fact. Working within a knowledge democracy framework through the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, the paper explores how creative and arts-based methods have served as powerful vehicles for sharing research with communities, policymakers, and the broader public. Through four case studies—domestic workers in India using a hand-stitched saree to document sexual harassment; waste recyclers in Brazil producing participatory videos for policy advocacy; immigrant women in Toronto presenting through spoken word at City Hall; and a community health fair in rural South Africa the paper illustrates how art reaches people and places that conventional academic outputs cannot. The paper concludes that creativity is not decorative in KMb; it is essential, particularly when research aims at social transformation and meaningful community change.