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Are science rigour and industry relevance both achievable in participatory action research

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Carberry, Peter S.
Copyright Year	2001
Abstract	Agricultural scientists are under pressure in Australia to deliver increased benefits to our industry and community clients. However, many appear to be ignoring this modern reality, preferring instead to concentrate on maintaining rigour in their science, as judged by their disciplinary peers, as the chief criterion for continued support. Yet the current expansion in “farmer-driven research” activities in Australia could be argued as evidence of an irrelevancy of our traditional research methodologies and institutions. The objective of this paper is to argue that our personal aspirations for undertaking good science can still be achieved while addressing client needs, but to do so we will have to shift our research paradigm to one that encourages greater participation in the research process. Participatory action research (PAR) is one approach that enables credible research outcomes to be delivered in a highly relevant manner. Hence, this paper briefly reviews farmer-driven and participatory research efforts in Australia and describes two PAR projects being undertaken in northern Australia – the FARMSCAPE and the Eastern Farming Systems projects. While this paper strongly argues in support of a PAR approach, many of the difficulties in its implementation – the high time cost of participation, a reliance on qualitative data, unfamiliar data analysis techniques, poorly appreciated evaluation procedures, publication barriers and a lack of career and reward structures – are acknowledged, but then recomposed to represent some of the key challenges for our profession. Participatory Action Research will allow us not only to meet our own personal research aspirations but also to address the challenges faced by the clients of agricultural research.
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Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.regional.org.au/au/pdf/asa/2001/carberry.pdf
Language	English
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Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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