1502, 2021

Contemporary Issues in Participatory Geography: Challenges, Adaptations, and New Directions

PYGYRG_Admin/ February 15, 2021/ Events Archive, News

A trans-disciplinary online event in cutting-edge participatory research

Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th of May 2021

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contemporary-issues-in-participatory-geography-tickets-146500142871

Keep up-to-date: follow @PYGYRG and #PARTICIPATORY21

*** UPDATE 26/04/2021 – the event programme is live, view here ***

*** UPDATE 26/04/2021 – call for sessions now closed ***

Sponsored by the Participatory Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).…

1007, 2020

Annual dissertation prize: Participatory Geographies Research Group (PyGyRG)

PYGYRG_Admin/ July 10, 2020/ News

The RGS-IBG Participatory Geographies Research Group is pleased to offer an annual prize of £100 for an undergraduate dissertation that examines a social justice theme and/or involves a participatory methodology.

Reflective of the scale and type of research carried out at undergraduate level, we are eager to encourage and reward both excellent scholarship and innovation which includes any of the following:

  • Employs a participatory methodology
  • Engages with participatory research literature
  • Works with people, communities, or non-profit groups
  • Explores social justice, community activist, social enterprises, or NGOs/CSOs
  • Addresses issues of exclusion and marginalisation
  • Involves minority or vulnerable groups
  • Incorporates tangible outcomes for community groups/NGOs

Nominated dissertations should: be a strong theoretical and/or empirical piece of work; be submitted for formal assessment in the current academic year to a UK Higher Education Institution for a BA/BSc level geography degree programme; include a full set of references and images (as relevant); be written in English.…

0602, 2020

Collaborative and Participatory Research Away Weekend

PYGYRG_Admin/ February 6, 2020/ News

We are pleased to invite applications for Participatory Geographies Away Weekend. This will be held in the grounds of Cragside House, a National Trust Property in Northumberland on 19/20 June. During the weekend we shall have time to share ideas and to work through challenges we’re facing; to think and write; and to walk, relax and cook together.…

2506, 2019

Participatory Action Research by Dr. Sam Halvorsen (Former Chairperson of PYGYRG), Queen Mary University of London

PYGYRG_Admin/ June 25, 2019/ Blog

Participatory-Action-ResearchDownload

Participatory Action Research
Dr. Sam Halvorsen, Queen Mary University of London

This text is a near-final version that will be published in the Oxford Bibliographies in Geography (Ed. Barney Warf).

Introduction
General Overviews
Foundational Works and Historical Lineages
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Participatory Development (PD) Participatory Geographies
Participatory Methods
Community-Based Participatory Research
Critiques of PAR
Ethics and PAR
Activist and Militant Research
Textbooks

Introduction
PAR is an approach that strives to take seriously the ethics and politics of the processes and outcomes of doing research.…

0205, 2019

Participatory Geographies Away Weekend 24th & 25th May 2019 BOOK NOW

PYGYRG_Admin/ May 2, 2019/ Events Archive

A4 Colour poster for display available from mgk@st-andrews.ac.uk

Second Call for participation

All Bursaries have now been allocated but some regular places are still available.

A call to all those interested in participatory geographies (both faculty and students). The PYGYRG annual away weekend will be held at the ‘Fortwilliam Backpakers’ hostel  https://independenthostels.co.uk/members/fortwilliambackpackers/…

2901, 2019

QMUL Participatory Geographies Research Method Workshop

PYGYRG_Admin/ January 29, 2019/ Blog

The London Interdisciplinary Social Science DTD (LISS DTP), together with the Participatory Geographies Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society and IBG (PyGyRG) co-hosted a research workshop on 7th June 2018 at the Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London.…

2901, 2019

Reflecting on Interrogating Form: Creative and Cultural Participatory Practice

PYGYRG_Admin/ January 29, 2019/ Blog

I am an artist, currently doing a part time practice led PhD at Chelsea school of Art alongside my studio practice based in Edinburgh. My impression from the day was that the two speakers, Harriet Hawkins and Caitlin Cahill, and most of the invited panel, shared an interest in using arts practice in mixed method research with a particular interest in how arts practices in a formal sense might be used to increase the impact of their research. …

2901, 2019

Creating, Messing, Playing: Thinking Form in Newcastle

PYGYRG_Admin/ January 29, 2019/ Blog

How do art and geography intersect?  Thinking through this question was the task of Interrogating Form: Creative and Cultural Participatory Practice, a workshop held by Newcastle University on Tuesday 11th June.

Indeed, there were lots of sub-questions within this broader focus. …