Research
PAD: Participatory Enquiry, Action Research and Democratic Methodologies
This research group is led by Charlotte Haines Lyon, Joan Walton and Matthew Reason.
Hosted by the Institute for Social Justice, this cross-school group will be a forum to discuss research and practice from a range of disciplines that locates itself within the venn diagram of participatory enquiry, action research and democratic methodologies.
It will be an opportunity to share practice and develop new collaborative research projects that seek to work with people in order to produce impactful research and innovative practice.
PAD will operate meet roughly twice a semester, mixing online Teams meetings with in person events.
Get in touch
PAD welcomes members and prospective doctoral researchers interested in participatory and democratic methodologies and action research.
Our interests are primarily defined by these methodologies approaches, rather than research theme or disciplinary context. The group aims to be a supportive environment in which to share methodological questions, works in progress, developing ideas and more.
Research activity
Recent events
We ran a Democratic Methodologies Conversation day in November 2021. This was attended virtually by about 20 researchers around the globe including Bangladesh and Australia.
Group members
/prod01/yorksjacuk/media/content-assets/staff-profile-images/Charlotte-Haines-Lyon.jpg)
Dr Charlotte Haines Lyon
Group Lead; Senior Lecturer
/prod01/yorksjacuk/media/content-assets/staff-profile-images/Joan-Nov-19.jpg)
Dr Joan Walton
Group Lead; Senior Lecturer
/prod01/yorksjacuk/media/content-assets/staff-profile-images/MATTHEW-REASON-4.jpg)
Professor Matthew Reason
Group Lead; Professor of Theatre and Performance
Natalie Quartermass
Postgraduate researcher
/prod01/yorksjacuk/media/content-assets/staff-profile-images/Carole-Pugh.jpg)
Carole Pugh
Senior Lecturer
Janice Darkes-Sutcliffe
Postgraduate researcher
Ruth Lambley
Converge Evaluation and Research Team Coordinator
Dr Kyoungmi Kim
Lecturer
Matthew Green
Postgraduate researcher
Tina Masterman
Postgraduate researcher
Nicola Mcateer
Postgraduate researcher
Kathryn Lewis
Postgraduate researcher
Manjinder Jagdev
Senior Lecturer
/prod01/yorksjacuk/media/content-assets/staff-profile-images/Brett-Heasman.jpg)
Dr Brett Heasman
Senior Lecturer
Alma Mason
Postgraduate researcher
/prod01/yorksjacuk/media/content-assets/staff-profile-images/Dr-Gary-Shepherd.jpg)
Dr Gary Shepherd
Lecturer
/prod01/yorksjacuk/media/content-assets/staff-profile-images/Mark-Mierzwinski-image.jpg)
Mark Mierzwinski
Senior Lecturer; Learning and Teaching Lead
Limor Augstin
Postgraduate researcher