Modelling the participatory research process
Based on a few decades of participatory research, this text attempts to clarify three types of participatory research (action research, intervention research and partnership research). The three types of research put at the heart of their approach the participation of the field actors. Their differences lie particularly in their purpose, in the role of the researcher, in the participative process, and in the presence or absence of an agent of mobilization, as “translator” visions of each and as well as in the commitment of the organizational and political levels. The contribution of the granting agencies, both in terms of its vision and its financial support, creates conditions that facilitate the deployment of these types of research. This text also discusses the dual identity of the practitioner and researcher: a hybrid. Finally, a modelling of participatory research process is presented to bring together all the elements in terms of the inherent characteristics, personal and professional, organizational and political.