Reflective Learning Booklets
Who is it for?
Researchers, practice partners and participants – children, young people and adults
Overview:
A booklet to support researchers, partners and participants to engage in structured reflection about their involvement in participatory research activities and to capture these reflections as data. These booklets aim to support researchers, practice partners and participants to reflect and capture learning about if and how participatory research practices have taken place within the project and their impact on different stakeholders. Using a series of guided questions (organised according to Houghton’s framework of participation for children and young people who have experienced Domestic Abuse) they provide a structure to support data collection about the process and outcomes of participation activities within our research.
Key strengths:
This tool supports systematic and comparative reflection on children’s, young people’s and women’s participation across diverse research sites and activities. It provides space to consider and acknowledge different approaches while asking similar questions about their relationship to children’s, young people’s and women’s space, voice, action/agency and power in the project.
Key challenges:
Supporting researchers to prioritise time for recording individual reflections about participation can be hard. Commitment to this work is likely to vary across a research team – depending on capacity and interest in participatory research. There may be a need to adapt how data is captured, i.e. using the booklets as a framework for interviews or focus group discussions.