SSSP 2026 Annual Meeting

Date: Saturday, August 8

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 062: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Co-constructing Methodologies for Community-engaged, Participatory Action Research
Room: Pearl

Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Global

Organizers: Sarah E. Stanlick, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Beatriz Padilla, University of South Florida

Presider/Discussant: Beatriz Padilla, University of South Florida

Description: 

In this session, we seek work rooted in community voice that disrupts deficit-based narratives in community-based participatory action research. We highlight methodologies that center epistemic justice through meaningful co-creation. This session promotes research ethics grounded in relationality, challenges the university–academic divide, and interrogates Global North–South divides in knowledge production and social problem definitions.

Papers:

“‘Us for Ourselves’: Civil Society Organizing under Poverty Dysgovernance in a Brazilian Informal Settlement,” Anjuli Fahlberg, Tufts University and Sophia Costa, The University of Chicago

“Capturing Community Knowledge about Reconciliation through Interactive Theatre: Developing Phenomenological Methods for Arts-Based Research,” Lily Ivanova, University of British Columbia

“Collective Knowing: Feminist Relationality and a Community-to-Be,” Liying Huang, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

“Podcasting, Conscientization, and the Rebirth of a Marriage Migrant Women’s Movement in Taiwan,” Hsiao-Chuan Hsia, National Chengchi University

“Teaching Graduate Qualitative Methods through Community-Based Participatory Research and Decolonizing Methodologies: Strengths, Limitations, and Challenges,” Angela Vergara, University of Central Florida

“Through the Lens of Trauma: Justice-Informed, Community-Engaged Reflections from Cross-Cultural Trauma-Informed Research in Kenya,” Rashad Freeman and Jerono P. Rotich, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington