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Action Research

An Opportunity for Revitalizing Research Purpose and Practices

Hilary Bradbury

Case Western Reserve University, USA

Peter Reason

University of Bath, UK

In this overview the authors describe the underlying principles of action research as: (1) grounded in lived experience, (2) developed in partnership, (3) addressing significant problems, (4) working with, rather than simply studying, people, (5) developing new ways of seeing/theorizing the world, and (6) leaving infrastructure in its wake. We refer to the role of social workers as frontline implementers of important social policies and suggest how action research can be used to both implement and also influence the creation of such policies. We offer examples of action research efforts that can be applied to the social worker's practice-scholarship repertoire.

Key Words: action research • participation • research methods • useful research

Qualitative Social Work, Vol. 2, No. 2, 155-175 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1473325003002002003
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