Can anyone advise on finding
funding for deep, emergent & long term participatory research?
We have abit of an impasse here in the Uk in that the main funding body for
human geography research - ESRC - have a fondness for fixed research
questions, detailed theoretical framings and a good idea of expected
outcomes before giving out money (the 'joke' is that you've written it up
by the time you apply and are onto the next thing by the time the research
starts).
There are lots of alternatives, but these
tend to either set you the research problem or, again, expect you to have a
good idea of what the questions/outcome will be beforehand. Government sources
(under a contract research guise) are a good source but, though
subvertible, this rarely gives you much money and places pressure to get
findings out fast.
Is the answer to do it slowly without
any money, to build up relations with participants and carry out initial work,
then put in for a larger chunk of funding? I'm aiming to do this this summer,
but it's still problamatic in the british system.
I know national, institutional and funding
contexts are going to make a big difference here so it would be really good to
hear from people who get participatory work funded successfully in
different countries. is there a book of tricks i could borrow? should i be
thinking more about the ethics of deception, to borrow a phrase from Paul R?
thanks
rachel
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