Pathways to co-impact: action research and community organising
Pathways to co-impact: action research and community organising
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DOI：
10.1080/09650792.2017.1331859
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Carter, Kath
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作者：
Banks, Sarah;Herrington, Tracey;Carter, Kath
本文引入了“共同影响”的概念来描述参与式行动研究（PAR）产生的复杂和动态的社会和经济变革过程。它认为，研究影响的主流模型倾向于将其视为一个基于捐助者-受援国模型的线性过程，发生在项目结束后，即接受和使用研究结果之后。PAR挑战这种方法，因为影响嵌入在行动研究过程的周期中；研究人员、研究线人和研究使用者之间的区别是模糊的；基于微观过程的影响，包括共同研究人员的思维和实践的变化，与基于发现的政策和实践的变化同样重要。根据参与性影响、协作性影响和集体影响的三重区别，制定了一个概念性框架。这适用于一个案例研究行动研究项目，债务在提赛德，与低收入家庭在英格兰东北部工作。根据参与性影响对项目进行分析（例如，发展参与家庭、指导研究人员和大学工作人员的技能）；协作影响（例如，协作研究导致的思维、政策和咨询做法、社区财政和住房机构以及地方当局的基于结果的变化）；“集体影响”，改编自社会干预领域，它涉及组织集体针对基于研究的具体行动（例如，改变与高成本贷款有关的贷款人和政府的政策和实践）。
This article introduces the concept of co-impact' to characterise the complex and dynamic process of social and economic change generated by participatory action research (PAR). It argues that dominant models of research impact tend to see it as a linear process, based on a donor-recipient model, occurring at the end of a project following the take-up and use of findings. PAR challenges this approach, as impact is embedded in cycles of the action research process; the distinction between researchers, research informants and research users is blurred; and micro process-based impacts, including changes in the thinking and practices of co-researchers, are as significant as findings-based changes in policy and practice. A conceptual framework is developed, based on a three-fold distinction between participatory', collaborative' and collective' impact. This is applied to a case study action research project, Debt on Teesside, working with low-income households in North-east England. The project is analysed in terms of participatory impact (e.g. developing skills of participating households, mentor-researchers, and university staff); collaborative impact (e.g. findings-based changes in thinking, policies and practices of advice, community finance and housing agencies, and local authorities resulting from collaborative research); and collective impact', adapted from the field of social interventions, which involves organisations collectively targeting specific actions based on research (e.g. changing policy and practices of lenders and government relating to high-cost loans).