ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights and covers a broad range of topics, including strategies to address: Interventionist Research (IVR’s) challenges, research participant selection and retention, selecting and managing an intervention team, planning readers IVR project, and addressing IVR’s ‘bad’ and ‘ugly’ aspects. It provides helpful and vital insights into issues for advancing Interventionist Research to enhance the probability that interventions will have an optimal impact on a range of social systems. In dealing with the issues, we academics must also be wary of our responsibility not just to do accounting research but also to become accountable, because there is no accounting without accountability. Many of our colleagues do not have the confidence or skills to tackle IVR projects, and rightly so, because a researcher without the confidence to conduct research to solve a problem can sometimes do more harm than good.
