Inquiry & Research: The 5 Inquiry Pathways: Action Research

Action research using a scholar activist collaborative approach with dialogues, interviews, and focus groups with key relevant stakeholders explored better knowledge of heritage tourism and growth or hindrance to development of tourism-related initiatives in two African American communities.

Action research study explored how restorative practices could help increase the social fabric within communities to help solve complex community problems -- conducted intentional gatherings using a study circle framework, with interviews, observations, and mapping documents.

Participatory action research explored through interviews what leadership approaches and operational strategies civil rights organizations, such as local Urban Leagues, should undertake in the post civil-rights era.

Participatory action research examined the role of citizen professionals when helping a citizen group, such as a watershed organization, can continue to increase citizen participation and empowerment in community organizations -- data were collected through a review of the organization's documents and focus group interviews with organization members.

Action research study explored the use of interviews and study circles as a means of engaging artists in dialogue with their peers about water issues to empower artists to become community leaders. .

Action research with descriptive and comparative analysis --data collected from pre- and post surveys, recycling and waste characterization, and administrative data focused on a community-based social marketing Greening Pacific campaign.

Action research (virtual participatory) college women from South East Asia (Nepal) participated in and organically created a leadership development program to empower themselves to take on leadership roles in their personal and professional lives.

Multi-method action research study with situational, problem tree, and stakeholder analyses demonstrated the role of participatory development planning and collaborative geographic information systems technology strengthens development and enhances human dignity in a Kenyan community.

Action research using Hashlamah Project study groups and interviews to examine how Jewish-Muslim and Israel-Palestine grassroots activists can persist with activism in the face of threats to safety, freedom, and lives.

Action research focused on positive deviance used large group conversations to collectively understand child marriage by abduction in an Ethiopian community, with a focus on positive defiance countering the norms of child marriage.

Action research using general systems theory to understand how to influence capitalist attitudes and drive more capital towards social good -- engaged a group of venture capitalists and finance professionals in dialogue activities.

Action research focused through interviews and focus groups on the case of a Unitarian Universalist church to address the question of how professionals more effectively engage families in faith formation opportunities.

Participatory action research study addresses what influence interlocking oppressive forces (race, gender, age, sexual orientation, and class) have on the way African American women live and view their bodies -- data collected through participant chronicles, interviews, and photographs.

Participatory action research, with data from observations, interviews, racially integrated events, reflection sessions, and participant journaling, this study explored ways to improve racial integration and race relations in Christian congregations.

Action research within a case study of a global for-profit, advertising firm sought to understand through a multi-phase study with both narrative and quantitative analyses how leaders and individuals perceive and act on the need to change behavior in a change effort, with focus on managing the negative impact of implicit bias.

An action research study based on Kegan & Lahey's 2009 Immunity to Change (ITC) process to discover whether the process would create bridging social capital and individual change. Data collection included group meetings, reading, discussions and completion of individual ITC maps.

Participatory action research used large group focus groups, a survey, and interviews to identify the challenges Millennials experience while trying to integrate into organizations and the skills that will help them make successful transitions into the workforce.

Developmental action research explored through interviews, the Leadership Development Profile, a sentence completion text, and researcher notes the meaning making that leads to social entrepreneurial action.