Re-Claiming Research for People & Nature

Getting tired of the increasing demands and expectations to produce ‘evidence-based’ work…? Join us for two days of exploration what the whole fuss is about…! What is (social) research? How can we do meaningful research which is really useful to come to know our communities? How can you evaluate your practice and learn from it and use the learnings to improve your work (and how you feel about it!)? And how to think about and measure the impact of your efforts in your work in the community?  After these two days, you’ll never be shy of an answer about the evidence of the fruits of your work!

Apart from a review of and introduction to existing approaches we will venture into newly emerging ways of understanding humans place in their immediate environment.  We will explore indigenous and deep ecological approaches to research practice adding them to the stories which we tell ourselves when we ‘do research’