Collaborating in research for social justice
Welcome
The Centre for Social Justice and Community Action is a research centre at Durham University, made up of academic researchers from a number of departments and disciplines and community partners. Our aim is to promote and develop research, teaching, public/community engagement and staff development (both within and outside the university) around the broad theme of social justice in local and international settings, with a specific focus on participatory action research.
ETHICS CONSULTATION (please click on the link here)
News
April 2012 - Rachel Pain (co-director CSJCA), has received Durham University's award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
Research Grant Success 2012
The Centre has been successful with two seperate awards by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the first is an award for £78, 487 to work on “Connection , participation and empowerment in community-based research: the case of the Transition Movement” and the team includes Tom Henfrey, Rachel Pain, and members of the Transition Network. The second is an award for £25,458 to work on 'Tackling ethical issues and dilemmas in community-based participatory research: a practical resource' and the team includes Sarah Banks, Andrea Armstrong, academics and community partners from Manchester, Newcastle and Wales and the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement.
Research Grant Success 2011
The Centre for Social Justice and Community Action and School of Applied Social Sciences has been awarded two research grants - both led by Professor Sarah Banks. The first research grant from the Northern Rock Foundation (£108, 181) involves a partnership with Thrive (Thornaby-on-Tees) and Church Action on Poverty and runs for two years and is an action research project entitled 'Debt on Teesside: Pathways to Inclusion'. The second research grant to undertake a scoping study for the AHRC Connected Communities program (£32, 470) is entitled 'Community-based Participatory Research: Ethics and Outcomes' runs between March and October 2011. This project involves a multi-disciplinary team including Prof Sarah Banks (PI) Centre for Social Justice and Community Action and School of Applied Social Sciences, with CoIs Rachel Pain (Geography), Gary Craig (SASS), Carolyn Summerbell (SMH), Helen Moore (SMH) and researcher Andrea Armstrong (CSJCA) and workshop facilitator Tom Henfrey (Anthropology).
Centre for Social Justice and Community Action mentioned in the Guardian, 18 October 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2011/oct/18/communicating-he-value
