Global Englishes language teaching (GELT) advocates for an epistemic reorientation of traditional English language teaching, synthesizing insights from World Englishes, English as a lingua franca, and other sociolinguistically informed paradigms and theories in language education. Focusing on the theoretical overlap between GELT and critical language awareness (CLA), this article demonstrates how GELT can offer explicit awareness‑raising opportunities that address not only linguistic diversity but also the intersections of language and power. It reports on participatory action research in two Japanese high schools, detailing the implementation and outcomes of a reading activity called the ‘CLA‑themed reading marathon’. The reading topics were organized into three interconnected sub‑themes designed to 1) develop a descriptive understanding of linguistic diversity, 2) raise awareness of issues related to prejudices and stereotypes, racism, and language, and 3) critically assess issues related to technologies and linguistic diversity, such as artificial intelligence and World Englishes. We present and discuss students’ voices identified in the post‑activity reflections, which indicate their learning outcomes and their perspectives on the activity and the selected readings. The results highlight the impact of the activity on students’ learning, such as raising awareness of linguistic injustice, disrupting common‑sense assumptions about language and enhancing reading engagement and comprehension, while also indicating challenges. One challenge was that a few students reported a sense of distance toward the CLA topics and social issues discussed in the activity, viewing them as ‘someone else’s problem’. Based on these successes and challenges, we offer implications for future research and practice in GELT.

This article examines the ways in which three communities in South-West Colombia understand ‘security’ and the practices they adopt in pursuit of it. Building on the burgeoning literature on vernacular security, we show the centrality of territorio as the key referent object of security in the region, and a wide variety of collective efforts adopted by communities in pursuit of securing their territorios. Through this, we make three contributions to the vernacular security literature. Methodologically, we show that Participatory Action Research (PAR) can be a powerful tool for identifying and understanding vernacular concepts and practices of security. But more than this, PAR can also play a role in helping to build and sustain community-level collective security practices, bridging research and action. Empirically, we bring vernacular security analysis to a region that, to date, has not been examined, documenting discourses and practices of security that are radically different from those that have dominated (Western) security studies. Conceptually, we show how understandings and practices of security in the region draw directly upon indigenous, mestizo and Afro-Colombian cultures, histories, and epistemologies – and in many respects do not conform to Western security registers that are too often assumed to be universal. This reiterates the importance of PAR, which can help researchers avoid (unwittingly) perpetuating Western-centric assumptions about what visions of security communities are trying to achieve and how they pursue those objectives.

This paper tells the story of the Kensington Food Forest, an urban ecological oasis where food production, forest growth, and grassroots activism intersect. Set within the Kensington Public Housing estates on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), it stands as a site of local regeneration against and beyond industrialised food and waste systems. Conducted with the Kensington Circular Economy Precinct Community Group, this research foregrounds the often-overlooked impact of grassroots initiatives within circular transitions by co-creating indicators that capture the ecological, social, and pedagogical values these spaces (re)generate. Together, the community and researchers position regenerative circularity not as a technological fix, but as an embodied, relational, and pedagogical praxis. By tracing the social-material flows and knowledge generation within this landscape, we show how communities learn with place, each other, and more-than-human worlds, revealing how Food Forest Pedagogies of Praxis can make circularity truly regenerative through practices of emancipation.

Alongside the ongoing renewal process of the Finnish welfare state, the role of the citizens is also revisited. So far the attention has mainly focused on how the responsibility for service provision is shared between the public sector and the service users, while the role of public services as a part of the democratic system has been more or less ignored. Based on the results from a 3-year participatory action research project called KAMPA, this article will discuss if the development of co-production in the context of public welfare services shows the way forward toward a new kind of society where democracy is an inseparable part of the structures and procedures of the service provision. The data gathered during the project (textual material, interviews, notes from meetings, and observation diaries) are analyzed using thematic analysis. The results show that while legislation and official policies strongly highlight the participation of citizens and service users, there are still many obstacles to overcome at both the attitudinal and practical level. The development of co-production and arenas of a new kind of democracy requires continuity in the attempts and recognition of the achievements, but it also has the potential to demonstrate the way in which a new more lively democratic society can come true in practice.

Socio-legal scholarship has long been driven by a commitment to social change. Yet scholars continue to debate how best to pursue politically engaged empirical research – especially in relation to the elite audiences that influence the production of socio-legal knowledge. Increasingly, researchers are turning to participatory action research (PAR) as a strategy of scholar-activism. PAR centres the knowledge and agency of marginalised communities by involving them as collaborators in the research process, with the aim of producing knowledge that supports their struggles for justice. As socio-legal scholars experiment with PAR, they may encounter tensions both with their research participants and within the broader scholarly community, particularly over the role of ‘law’ in their work. Drawing on my experience using participatory methods to study data governance in Kenya, I explore the challenges and possibilities of integrating PAR into socio-legal inquiry. I suggest that when socio-legal scholars adopt PAR, they are likely to fall short of PAR’s radical participatory ideals and the conventional framing of socio-legal research. Yet, as I argue, this friction is generative. Adopting PAR can transform socio-legal inquiry to be more responsive to contemporary political struggles.

This Article discusses the design of an innovative approach to the traditional medical-legal partnership. This potentially transformative service model proposes the use of unauthorized practice of law (UPL) reform to embed civil legal problem solving within a patient care setting. Unlike in the traditional medical-legal partnership — a service model which embeds lawyers within patient care settings to address patients’ justice needs — we explore the promise of patient advocacy through community-based justice workers (CBJWs): members of the community who are not lawyers but who have specialized legal training and authorization to provide civil legal help to those who need it most. This work is the result of a partnership between Innovation for Justice, a social justice legal innovation lab housed at both the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, and University of Utah Health. The present framework for UPL-reform-based medical-legal partnerships was developed through robust community-engaged research and design work across the 2022–23 academic year. This article discusses the research findings and proposes a framework for replication in other jurisdictions.

Spousal death is a common and disruptive later life event, yet how resilience unfolds afterwards remains insufficiently understood, particularly from older adults’ perspectives. Resilience research utilizes the metaphor of ‘bouncing forward’ to describe navigating adversity, but how it relates to older adults’ experiences of spousal loss and the everyday conditions in which resilience takes shape remains unclear. To address these conceptual gaps, this study examines how older adults make sense of resilience after spousal loss, what supports or hinders it in daily life and how their experiences relate to ‘bouncing forward’. It uses participatory action research and was part of a larger Dutch project (2023–2025) conducted in three municipalities (one rural, two urban), exploring everyday resilience and loss.

Interview findings are presented using low-inference qualitative description, staying close to participants’ and co-researchers’ own language. They illustrate how resilience is experienced as a non-linear, multi-dimensional process across life domains such as health, social life and daily routines. This involves alternating periods of improvement, setback and stillness. These possibilities are opened up, restricted or suspended by personal orientations, close relationships, material environments and institutional responses. Clark’s holonic framework and Arendt’s theories of action and natality help interpret these changes as expansions, contractions and pauses across personal, relational and institutional contexts, clarifying how new beginnings can become possible or remain out of reach. The study offers a situational and relational account of resilience after spousal loss and identifies conditions that enable or restrict older adults’ efforts to navigate everyday life.

Despite the negative effects on older adults, resident-to-resident aggression (RRA) remains a complex and understudied problem. Few interventions exist that address this issue by promoting goodwill. Using the intervention mapping approach, the evaluation of the test phase of the pilot Program GIFT in private seniors’ residences (PSRs) (Quebec, Canada) was conducted through qualitative interviews with 25 residents, 21 staff members, and 4 managers. The results indicate that the program achieved its objectives of promoting goodwill, although the strategies to manage RRA and intervention tools were more difficult to integrate into the PSRs’ culture. Obstacles and facilitators were reported. Recommendations were identified to enhance the program’s content, promote it more effectively, and ensure long-term sustainability. This research is the first endeavour to develop, test, and evaluate the test phase of a pilot program co-created with residents, staff members and managers of PSRs, aiming simultaneously at promoting goodwill and countering RRA.

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) and native bee species have ecological, economic, social, and cultural importance to smallholder coffee farmers. While the ecological contributions of bees to the sustainability of coffee systems are well documented, particularly in relation to the coffee crop, fewer studies have examined socio-economic dimensions of beekeeping for honey as an agroecological diversification strategy for coffee producers. Yet, understanding the multiple values of different diversification strategies is important as many coffee farmers in different parts of the world are finding it increasingly difficult to make a living on coffee alone and are adopting alternative strategies, such as on-farm diversification. In this Participatory Action Research (PAR) study, we examined the opportunities, limitations, and trade-offs of beekeeping (with A. mellifera) as an agroecological diversification option for smallholder coffee farmers in Chiapas, Mexico. We applied a mixed-methods approach, which consisted of monthly surveys with 25 beekeepers of Campesinos Ecológicos de la Sierra Madre de Chiapas (CESMACH)/Apicultores Miel Real del Triunfo (ART) producer cooperatives for 12 months and five focus groups between 2018 and 2019. We found that beekeeping is less labor-intensive than coffee, and there are opportunities to integrate beekeeping into the annual farming cycle of coffee and maize production without causing competing labor demands or additional time pressures. We also found that beekeeping could generate economic gains for peasant families; however, profitability hinged on various factors, such as the price for honey, yield per hive, and the number of beehives. Our results further show that beekeeping yielded multiple non-monetary benefits by contributing to the nutrition and health of farmer families and their communities, serving as a vehicle for horizontal learning and relationship building, and contributing to the emotional well-being of beekeepers. Finally, producers who hoped to gain economically from beekeeping were generally interested in growing their apiaries but expressed concerns about limited technical knowledge and the impacts of climate change. Given the multiple social, economic, and ecological benefits of beekeeping, it has great promise as a part of agroecological food and farming systems. We argue that efforts to promote beekeeping as a diversification strategy should take a holistic approach, underscoring the potential of apiculture to enhance the well-being and resilience of beekeeping families and strengthen food sovereignty and local economies (including solidarity economies) in peasant communities. These findings can be useful in supporting beekeepers and their organizations in strategic planning for enhancing the long-term sustainability of beekeeping.

The Colorado Immersion Training in Community Engagement (CIT) program supports a change in the research trajectory of junior faculty, early career researchers, and doctoral students toward Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). CIT is within the Community Engagement and Health Equity Core (CEHE) at the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI), an NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Science award. This Translational Science Case Study reports on CIT’s impacts from 2010 to 2019. A team from The Evaluation Center at the University of Colorado Denver utilized four primary data sources: administrative records, participant written reflections, participant and Community Research Liaison (CRL) interviews, and community partner surveys. Data were analyzed using the framework of CBPR principles and the conceptual logic model. CIT trained 122 researchers in CBPR through embedded education within various Colorado communities. CIT Alumni secured ∼$8,723,000 in funding between CCTSI Pilot Grants and external funding. Also, CIT alumni implemented CBPR into curricula and community programming and developed deep, lasting relationships. Further key learnings include the crucial role of CRLs in building relationships between university and community partners and how CIT may serve as a mechanism to improve historical mistrust between communities and universities.

This Participatory Action Research (PAR) investigates the integration of informal music learning in Macau’s educational context, guided by the Model of Generative Change (Ball, 2009). Engaging the participating college students (N = 41), this study explores how learners perceive the formal–informal learning continuum (Folkestad, 2006) through the four stages of informal learning experiences: awakening, agency, advocacy and efficacy (Ball, 2009). Through multiple data collection methods and qualitative analysis, students experienced (a) autonomous learning, (b) joyful peer learning, (c) creative exploration and skill development and (d) resilience through challenges. Moreover, the study highlights the stages of awakening, introspection and critique from the students’ perspectives. Notably, a subset of students, predominantly those with prior formal instrumental training, expressed critiques concerning informal learning, predominantly regarding its perceived lack of systematic structure and foundational skills. These insights suggest a need to further embed informal music learning in Macau to foster a dynamic change towards generativity and a ‘multileveled cultural world’ (Law & Ho, 2015). The implications point to a broader pedagogical shift that values diverse learning experiences, which may enhance the development of a more adaptable, innovative and well-rounded musical skill set within the student population in Macau.

Public agencies routinely collect administrative data that, when shared and integrated, can form a rich picture of the health and well-being of the communities they serve. One major challenge is that these datasets are often siloed within individual agencies or programs and using them effectively presents legal, technical, and cultural obstacles. This article describes work led by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) with support from university-based researchers to establish enterprise-wide data governance and a legal framework for routine data sharing, toward the goal of increased capacity for integrated data analysis, improved policy and practice, and better health outcomes for North Carolinians. We relied on participatory action research (PAR) methods and Deliberative Dialogue to engage a diverse range of stakeholders in the co-creation of a data governance process and legal framework for routine data sharing in NCDHHS. Four key actions were taken as a result of the participatory research process: NCDHHS developed a data strategy road map, created a data sharing guidebook to operationalize legal and ethical review of requests, staffed the Data Office, and implemented a legal framework. In addition to describing how these ongoing streams of work support data use across a large state health and human services agency, we provide three use cases demonstrating the impact of this work. This research presents a successful, actionable, and replicable framework for developing and implementing processes to support intradepartmental data access, integration, and use.

This participatory action research (PAR) aimed to understand the health implications of guidelines impacting social isolation among frail community-dwelling older adults and their family and formal caregivers during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) of data collected from 10 policy/procedural documents revealed four themes: valuing principles, identifying problem(s), setting priorities, and making recommendations. Interviews with 31 participants from Peterborough, Ontario, also revealed four themes: sacrificing social health, diminishing physical health, draining mental health, and defining supports. Recommendations to decision makers were finalized at a knowledge exchange event involving participants and members of Age-friendly Peterborough. Key findings demonstrate the need for Canadian governments and health and social service agencies to enhance access to technology-based interventions, and educational and financial resources for caregivers. Meaningful communication and collaboration between older adults, caregivers, and decision makers are also needed to reduce the gap between policy and practice when addressing social isolation.

Participatory methods have become essential for research with Indigenous Arctic peoples. To understand how researchers use such methods, we conducted a scoping review of participatory action research (PAR)—a classic qualitative methodology—with Inuit communities. Although other systematic reviews exist on participatory methodologies in the Arctic, our scoping review is the only one focusing only on the Inuit.

We reviewed 11 empirical studies published between 2000 and 2019 in peer-reviewed journals. Most of them had been conducted with Canadian Inuit. Although the authors came from a variety of disciplines, the studies were mostly about the health and well-being of Inuit communities. The authors did not use the same definition of PAR, but their definitions did share some key components: Inuit participation, Inuit engagement and a goal of social change. There were also a variety of methodologies of research and forms of Inuit participation, although the photovoice method was frequent.

Scoping reviews are most often used in the natural sciences. This one was a challenge because we were using it in the social sciences and because it concerned PAR, an approach with different definitions and uses. A remaining question is how to assess such a method, either by peers or by other stakeholders.

En este trabajo estudio la institucionalización de la investigación indígena, considerando los conflictos políticos, epistemológicos y ontológicos que intervienen en su desarrollo. Analizo y comparo cuatro instituciones afiliadas al Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca (CRIC) de Colombia, una de las organizaciones indígenas que más ha avanzado en este proceso en Latinoamérica. Basándome en conversaciones con los y las intelectuales orgánicas del CRIC —investigadores/as indígenas y colaboradores/as— y en documentos institucionales, argumento que las diversas formas de concebir y practicar la investigación dan cuenta de un proceso de ontologización que implica un cambio radical respecto del sentido, los sujetos y las relaciones involucradas en su desarrollo. Planteo que dicho proceso obliga a redefinir la noción moderna de investigar, pero indago, al mismo tiempo, en las tensiones que esta tendencia presenta al interior del CRIC.