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This document introduces Participatory Research (PR), emphasizing its collaborative nature where researchers engage directly with affected communities to drive action and change. It outlines the benefits of PR, including the relevance of research findings to real-world contexts and improved research quality through partnerships. The article also discusses various terminologies and frameworks associated with PR across different disciplines.

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This document introduces Participatory Research (PR), emphasizing its collaborative nature where researchers engage directly with affected communities to drive action and change. It outlines the benefits of PR, including the relevance of research findings to real-world contexts and improved research quality through partnerships. The article also discusses various terminologies and frameworks associated with PR across different disciplines.

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Asian Development Foundation College

GRADUATE SCHOOL
Tacloban City

COURSE TITLE: RESEARCH IN MAHPE


TOPIC: PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH
REPORTER: RICARDO D. BAUTISTA JR. MAED (MAHPE)
PROFESSOR: DR. OFELIA N. ALCOBER
DATE: JANUARY 04, 2025

Abstract

Participatory research (PR) encompasses research designs, methods, and frameworks that use systematic
inquiry in direct collaboration with those affected by an issue being studied for the purpose of action or
change. PR engages those who are not necessarily trained in research but belong to or represent the
interests of the people who are the focus of the research. Researchers utilizing a PR approach often
choose research methods and tools that can be conducted in a participatory, democratic manner that
values genuine and meaningful participation in the research process. This article serves as an
introduction to participatory research methods, including an overview of participatory research,
terminology across disciplines, elements that make a research method participatory, and a model
detailing the choice points that require decisions about which tools and methods will produce the desired
level of participation at each stage of the research process. Intentional choices of participatory research
methods, tools, and processes can help researchers to more meaningfully engage stakeholders and
communities in research, which in turn has the potential to create relevant, meaningful research findings
translated to action.

Participatory Research
Participatory Research (PR) is a research-to-action approach that emphasizes direct engagement of

local priorities and perspectives (Cornwall & Jewkes, 1995). PR can be defined as an umbrella term for

research designs, methods, and frameworks that use systematic inquiry in direct collaboration with those

affected by the issue being studied for the purpose of action or change (Cargo & Mercer, 2008). PR

prioritizes co-constructing research through partnerships between researchers and stakeholders,

community members, or others with insider knowledge and lived expertise (Jagosh et al., 2012). Simply

put, PR engages those who are not necessarily trained in research but belong to or represent the interests

of the people who are the focus of the research. Instead of the “subjects” of traditional research, PR

collaborates with stakeholders, community, constituents, and end-users in the research process.

By sharing leadership in research, PR “contributes directly to the flourishing of human persons, their

communities, and the ecosystems of which they are part” (Reason & Torbert, 2001, p. 6). PR has a

multitude of benefits including research that is informed by and relevant to real-world contexts, results

that can be more effectively translated into community and non-academic settings, and research quality
and rigor that is improved by the “integration of researchers’ theoretical and methodological expertise

with nonacademic participants’ real-world knowledge and experiences into a mutually reinforcing

partnership”

(Balazs & Morello-Frosch, 2013; Bush et al., 2017; Cargo & Mercer, 2008, p. 327; International

Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICPHR), 2013; Warren et al., 2018). Increasingly, PR

is used and valued across disciplines as a way to solve complex problems; however, the nomenclature of

the specific PR approaches varies widely. As can be seen in Table 1, the breadth of terms describing the

PR orientation is vast, but they share in common a value in doing research with those who are typically

the subjects of research, rather than on them (Reason & Torbert, 2001). Table 1 is not intended to be an

exhaustive list of the frameworks, approaches, and orientations that utilize PR, but it demonstrates that

there are researchers within almost every discipline that view research as a collaborative inquiry process

with research goals that go beyond knowledge generation and into real-world impact.

REFERENCE: https://jprm.scholasticahq.com/article/13244-participatory-research-methods-choice-points-in-the-
research-process

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