Episode 4: Rights in Action – Doing participatory action research using a human rights-based approach
Podcast | 12 May 2025
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. With lived experience of the asylum system, Ishmail and Sekou talk with Kirsten MacLeod and Yvonne Blake from On the Margins about their advocacy work, participatory action research and the recently published Rights in Action Learning Report.
For more information, please see:
Associated Reports (referenced in the podcast):
Rights in Action Final Report: Rights-in-Action-Final-Report-Mental-Health.pdf
Rights in Action Learning Report: https://www.povertyalliance.org/research-rights-in-action-learning-report/
Episode 3: Doing participatory action research in prisons
Podcast | 11 November 2024
In this third episode we are joined by Matt Maycock who is Senior Lecturer of Criminology at Monash University, Australia, turning our attention to a different research environment: participatory action research in prisons. Participatory research is often described as ‘messy’ and complex even in ‘normal’ research contexts; how does one carry out co-produced and engaged research in a prison given the restricted conditions and anacute lack of agency amongst the participants? These are some of the fascinating questions that Matt engages with in this latest episode of our series. Hope you enjoy it!
You can listen to the episode by visiting our Spotify Podcast page here. The episode is part of the podcast series focusing on the art of doing collaborative research.
Episode 2: Decolonising research and partnerships
Podcast | 26 June 2024
In this episode we focus on the theme of decolonising participatory research. The focus of the podast is the collaborative and international research project: Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa (DEPA). Using arts based and participatory methodologies, DEPA looks at how peace is understood within displaced and marginalised communities in different countires across Africa. In this episode we are joined by Tominke Olaniyan – Director of PADEAP (Pan African Development Education and Advocacy Programme) and co-founder of ILERA (Community Health Initiative), and Dr Craig Walker, research associate The Open University – who discuss DEPA, focusing more specifically on the Ugandan project which looked at decolonising of research with refugee populations.
You can listen to the episode by visiting our Spotify Podcast page here. The episode is part of the podcast series focusing on the art of doing collaborative research.
Episode 1: Doing collaborative research with asylum seekers and refugees
Podcast | 19 March 2024
In this first episode of our podcast series we focus on the collaborative research project: “Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak“. The project was a collaboration with Migrants Organising for Rights and Empowerment (MORE), a grassroots organisation based in Glasgow advocating for human rights and dignity for asylum seekers and refugees living in Glasgow. In this episode Dr Taulant Guma, Ms Yvonne Blake and Prof Kirsten Macleod disccuss what this project was about, how collaboration was built in practice and what challenges and opportunties the project brought for both the academic team and the partner organisation.
You can listen to the episode by visiting our Spotify Podcast page here. The episode is part of the podcast series focusing on the art of doing collaborative research.
On the Margins 