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About the Co-Researching Community & their Research Activities

Each small action reflects with everyone’s small actions and becomes something tangible

Co-researcher SP

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Christina Iancu

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Citizenship Education Facilitator 

Socialist Theatre Researcher

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Fiona Mae White

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Artist

Red Rebel Performer

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Su Powel

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Gardener

Red Rebel Performer

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Eve Campbell

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Archeologist 

Print Maker

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Cynthia Cox

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Weaver

Red Rebel Performer

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Ciana Lucy Spel

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Artist

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Nik Jones

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Working with Migrant communities

Community Organiser

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Kate O'Brien

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Artist 

Community Development & health

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Claire Murray

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Artist

Mental Health 

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Anna Swisher

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Active Hope and Community Dance Facilitator  

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Joe Nix

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Social Practice Artist

Community Arts Facilitator

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Katie Burke

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Artist

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Kat Gribkoff

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Active Hope and Community Dance Facilitator  

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Katie Daly

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Social Practice Artist

Community Arts Facilitator

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Claire Fitzgerald

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Artist

Summary of Co-Researchers Activities

The co-researching community, or collective, was formed through an open public call for co-researchers to co-research 'making change together' using creative and holistic approches to taking, or informing, collective action for just change. The purpose of developing these tools for collective action was to increase inclusivity in social-environmental justice movements through holistic and experiential modes of engagement and learning rather than simply relying on verbal communication which can exclude the voices of many people. The research was undertaken using an arts based approach to Participatory Action Research.
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  • 14 people participated during the outreach workshop phase.

  • 7 people subsequently participated in the core co-researching workshop phase. Some co-researchers were involved in multiple workshops and others came for just one.

  • Another 40 people participated in various public workshop events arising from the core researching phase.

 
The research journey took us around North West Clare, South West Galway and down to North Kerry, Ireland.
Through the collective  activities of all the people taking part in this research and the final analysis of the research, a collection of holistic resources for participating in social justice movement activism were co-produced. This research practice informed the purpose, content and  shape of the website as a radical holistic learning-for-action space relevant to the needs of activists of different backgrounds, experience and practice.  Mile Buiochas to all involved. 

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About the Research Instigator

& PhD Candidate.​

​GISELLE HARVEY

 

I am an Artist, Educator and Activist-Researcher from the West of Ireland.
My work is centred on participatory democracy and developing holistic collaborative learning-for-action practices which can support more inclusive participation in social movements and grassroots community organising for social-environmental justice. This work is underpinned by an intersectional eco-feminist perspective. ​I am a Government of Ireland Research Scholar and Irish Research Council GOIPG scholarship awardee. This PhD was hosted by The Limerick School of Art and Design, TUS.

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Giselle Harvey
BA Textile Making

H. Dip Further Education

M. Ed Adult and Community Education.

Dr of Philosophy: Adult & Community Education/Art Based Practice.

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Creative Global Education: Creativity & Change Alumni -https://www.creativityandchange.ie/

Eco Literacy - https://haumea.ie/

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giselle-Harvey

https://ie.linkedin.com/in/giselle-harvey-b394887a​

​Giselle Harvey — Clare Arts

Acknowledgements

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Massive thanks the people who generously contributed their time, knowledge and labour as co-researchers of this project. Whether you came for five workshops or one, your collective lived experience of struggle, your activist insights, and your ongoing curiosity about how to make just change contributed to a creative holistic learning-for-action resource which can benefit the many.

 

Co-researchers are listed in alphabetical order:

Katie Burke, Eve Campbell, Cynthia Cox, Kate Daly, Clair Fitzgerald, Christina Iancu, Nick Jones, Kat Gribkoff, Joe Nix, Claire Murray, Kate O’ Brien, Su Powel, Anna Swisher, Fiona Mae White,
and guest co-researcher Ciana Lucy Spel.

The call was made through print and online posters which invited people from the general public interested in collective social-environmental change-making to come to art-based participatory action outreach workshops. 

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Initially, the outreach approach was based on an outdoor public intervention workshop titled [EM] Powergeneration, a type of creative Public STEAM workshop. This workshop would exemplify the holistic (transdisciplinary) tools that were to be co-researched experientially through practice. Due to a number of issues, this outreach workshop was not actioned.

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This led to a slight reshaping of the beginning of the research to a more art focused adult & community education outreach workshop than the holistic workshop approach originally designed. The details of these issues and the changes they brought about are contained in the accompanying exegesis (a practice based research report).

 

However, the [EM] Powergeneration workshop did develop during a later phase of the research. This lead to other workshops and resources being generated by the lead Researcher, Giselle Harvey, who designed and initiated the research PhD. 

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