Online Training

Walking as a participatory, performative and mobile method

Presenter: Maggie O'Neill and Tracey Reynolds

In this online resource, we talk about walking as a participatory, performative and mobile method. We also describe what the method is, and how it has been used in research. Moreoever, we discuss how we used these methods as part of our project with migrant communities.

Participatory theatre as a social research method

Presenter: Umut Erel and Erene Kaptani

This online resource gives an introduction to participatory theatre for social research. It looks at the uses of the Theatre of the Oppressed, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and participatory ethics for social research. The resoure particularly explores how participatory theatre methods:

• can generate research data,
• how they can help engage participants in dialogue with other social groups
• and how these methods can generate model for engaging research participants, policy makers and practitioners in an integrated way from research, to engagement and dissemination.

It includes a short video clip to exemplify the method of Forum Theatre.