ABSTRACT
As preceding chapters have highlighted, many examples exist of the varying ways in which Participatory Action Researchers work closely with groups to identify needs, plan action research projects, consult and then strive collectively to ‘action’ their findings. The three of us are all involved to varying degrees in such participatory activities, we would define ourselves not as just as action researchers, but also as ‘academic-activists’. Whilst much of our time is spent teaching students, marking essays, and undertaking ever-increasing administrative duties within our increasingly corporatised UK universities, we all consciously strive to bring ourselves into contact with social movement groups struggling for radical social change, and to participate with them in participatory actions and ‘research’. More than this, however, we often share the same struggles as resisting others and hence are deeply embedded in social struggles ourselves.
