Participatory research
Participatory research is a collective term for research approaches that enable citizens to participate in various steps of a research project. It is a form of open science and therefore never a purely academic undertaking, but always a collaborative project with non-scientific, social actors.
definition
Participatory research describes the opening of scientific processes in which non-scientists are part of a research project and help shape it. The resulting entanglement of different perspectives from science and practice is a prerequisite for the emergence of new knowledge from collaborative research.
Related areas
Other terms for participatory research are action research , team research , and open science . Similar research practices are in the so-called citizen science and citizen science applied, but this includes also projects that are carried out entirely without scientific participation only by laymen.
What all participatory research practices have in common is the requirement to intervene in social contexts and the shifting of boundaries between science and society. This creates new forms of collaborative knowledge production that will permanently change the relationship between society and science.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hella von Unger: Participatory research. Introduction to research practice. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-01289-2 .