Participatory Action & Inclusive Lens

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This MidCourse was developed exclusively for the MLEx Fellowship Programme 2025 by Catherine Amayi and Dr. Caroline Mose.

Conventional research approaches, while important, reproduce problematic hierarchies between researchers and “research subjects,” positioning the researcher as the all-knowing actor and entrenching unequal power dynamics.

By contrast, Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR) seeks to disrupt these hierarchies, enabling research processes and outputs that are more ethical, transformative, sustainable, and inclusive than traditional academic enterprises. Guided by the principles of Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) and CPAR, this course promotes inclusive engagement with issues of power, structural inequalities, and gender from a critical feminist standpoint.

While participatory action research is not without its challenges, this MidCourse emphasizes its democratic value and transformative potential for communities and research processes. It seeks to set Fellows on the path of critically engaging with CPAR in their own disciplines.

The course is composed of the following lessons:

  1. Introduction to Participatory Action Research (PAR)
  2. Introduction to Inclusive Gender Lens in Research
  3. How to incorporate Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR) in my discipline – Live Event
  4. Learnings and Unlearnings of the Course (Gender inclusivity in research) – Live Event
  5. CPAR and FPAR Case Studies
  6. Live Event – Conclusion (A summary of the entire PAR course)

How to incorporate Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR) in my discipline – Live Event

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Learnings and Unlearnings of the Course (Gender inclusivity in research) – Live Event

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