Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR) Programme – SE England
The programme will focus on developing understanding of community health; understanding and application of community action research approaches; and building the capacity of participants (primarily from the BAME community) to undertake community action research.
Through the programme we are providing training and mentoring support in community-led health and community action research to participants from a range of projects/organisations across the South-East of England.
Training session slides
Training session recordings
Day 1 - Community-led health - Cohort 1
Day 1 - Community-led health - Cohort 2
Day 2 - Action research - Cohort 1
Day 2 - Action research - Cohort 2
First mentoring session - planning your research
Template for planning your research (Word document)
More resources
Knowledge is Power toolkit, planning your research page (external website)
Knowledge is Power toolkit, ethics guidance (external website)
Second mentoring session - refining your methods
Slides for session on methods (Powerpoint document)
Slides on alternative and creative methods (Powerpoint document)
Survey information template to place at top of survey (Word document)
Research information template for face-to-face in-depth interviews (Word document)
Note - the above resource could also be adapted for focus groups
Consent form template for face-to-face in-depth interviews (Word document)
Consent form template for focus groups (Word document)
More resources
Knowledge is Power toolkit methods section (external website)
Analysing your data
Survey analysis excel spreadsheet template (Excel worksheet)
Some tips for getting started on analysing survey data using excel (Word document)
How to create charts and tables from your survey data (see video on right)
Quick guide to analysing interview data (Word document)
More resources
Action Research by, in and for Communities (ARC) (external website with download available)
The above resource was developed by SCDC and has a section on making sense of your findings
Presenting your findings
Writing up your research - template and guidance (Word document)
A report is one way to present your findings, but there are other ways to use your evidence to influence services. See the Knowledge is Power toolkit for some more resources on this (external website)
Reading Voluntary Action has produced a combined report (see image), containing the 4 full research reports by community researchers who took part in the CPAR programme in 2021-22. Download Community Participatory Action Research 2021–2022 to see some great examples of how to put together a research report (with a bit of paid-for design work to add that final touch!).
