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Acting for Change: The Generation of Transformative Action

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Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being

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Participatory Research is orientated towards change. This chapter explores the types of actions that generate change in the research process both during and after a research project has finished. It covers the conditions that need to be nurtured to encourage action and some of the impediments to that action.

Purpose

Developing insights into understanding types of change and change processes.

Central Question

When does action and change take place and what types of action can we expect?

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  1. Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Tineke Abma

  2. Department of Sociology, Durham University, Durham, UK

    Sarah Banks

  3. Department of Disability and Education, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK

    Tina Cook

  4. National School of Public Health, Universidade Nova Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Sónia Dias

  5. School of Health, Medical & Applied Sciences, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, Australia

    Wendy Madsen

  6. Centre for Healthy Communities, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Jane Springett

  7. Institute for Social Health, Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany

    Michael T. Wright

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Abma, T. et al. (2019). Acting for Change: The Generation of Transformative Action. In: Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93191-3_6

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