{"id":174,"date":"2024-03-11T17:31:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/interaction\/?p=174"},"modified":"2024-03-19T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T17:55:07","slug":"sharing-mini-minds-work-more-widely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.sunderland.ac.uk\/interaction\/sharing-mini-minds-work-more-widely\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Mini Minds work more widely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Participatory action research<\/strong> involves people who are concerned about an issue taking a leading role in producing and using knowledge about it. We are taking this approach with our Mini Minds work: school and university staff are working together to carry out research that is relevant to the needs of the school. It&#8217;s a different kind of research, in line with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durham.ac.uk\/media\/durham-university\/research-\/research-centres\/social-justice-amp-community-action-centre-for\/documents\/toolkits-guides-and-case-studies\/Participatory-Action-Research-Toolkit.pdf\">Pain et al, 2012<\/a>. that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>is driven by participants (the people who are involved in the issue being researched) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>university staff are there to help rather than do research on their own agendas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>is a democratic model of who can produce, own and use knowledge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>is collaborative, involving discussion, pooling skills and working together<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>is intended to result in some action, change or improvement on the issue being researched<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually research participants are anonymised in research, but in participatory action research, all the researchers are partners and may choose to be more visible in the sharing of the research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are very excited that we have been selected to share a presentation of our Mini Mind work at a conference in June being held at Nottingham Trent University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Close to Practice Conference<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ntu.ac.uk\/__data\/assets\/image\/0032\/2309774\/Research.jpg\" alt=\"Word research highlighted in dictionary\" style=\"width:300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim of this conference is to bring together practitioners and academics to share their work and build connections for future projects. This is an in-person event, for anyone active in practitioner research, collaborative lesson research\/lesson study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Event details<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nottingham Trent University&#8217;s (NTU)\u00a0<strong>Close to Practice Partnership Conference.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Clifton Campus<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>Wednesday 26 June<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0<strong>9.30 am &#8211; 4 pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntu.ac.uk\/about-us\/events\/events\/2024\/6\/close-to-practice-conference#:~:text=The%20aim%20of%20this%20conference,collaborative%20lesson%20research%2Flesson%20study.\">https:\/\/www.ntu.ac.uk\/about-us\/events\/events\/2024\/6\/close-to-practice-conference<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participatory action research involves people who are concerned about an issue taking a leading role in producing and using knowledge about it. 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