Research

The IDEA Research Community has been established to support and encourage development education research amongst IDEA members. The Research Community aims to be relevant to members needs and will have a strong capacity building element.

Please contact Mags to learn more or to register your interest in development education research: research@ideaonline.ie

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Tell us about your work

We are greatly interested in what work you are doing with development education research. Please complete our short survey to inform us of your work.

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About the Research Community

Mags Liddy is the coordinator of IDEA's research community. Her role involves planning and delivering workshops on research, leading skills-based trainings on research methods and updating members through this section of the website, on all matters related to DE research.

Past Research Community Events

Seminar on Participatory Action Research, 26th Nov

Participatory action research is a research process where the researcher identifies an issue in their work, explores solutions, prepares and implements an action plan, followed by reflection on the changes and effects brought about. Full report and presentations available

Demystifying Research workshops were aimed to introduce and clarify the language of research, and explore key concepts and research methods. The workshop documents and presentations are available here