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“On the Margins” is a Collaborative Research Network that brings together academics, practitioners and activists involved or interested in collaborative research, participatory methods and knowledge co-production, with specific focus on marginalised groups and communities.
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Institutional Ethnography
Monday 7th Sep 2026, 4.30 pm
This webinar will provide an introduction to Institutional Ethnography (IE), an interdisciplinary feminist approach to social research ‘from below’ that focuses on how texts and language organise our everyday lives.
The Merging of Knowledge
In this interactive webinar, Diana Skelton and Thomas Mayes of ATD (All Together in Dignity) Fourth World shared a new approach to participatory research: ‘Merging of Knowledge’, an inclusive methodology that enables dialogue among people in deep poverty, policy makers, academics, and practitioners.
Episode 4: Rights in Action – Doing participatory action research using a human rights-based approach
In this podcast collaboration with the Poverty Alliance, we speak to community researchers, Sekou and Ishmail from Rights in Action, an initiative aimed at working with communities to add human rights to their collective power.
PhD Building Blocks: Participatory research – critical perspectives
Aimed at PhD students, this session provided a critical perspective on participatory methods and how students and researchers can apply them in practice.
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