Action Research Yes/And Podcast
1) Harry Kruiter on why bureaucracy is not (always) a brick wall
Harry Kruiter is co-founder at Public Value Institute (IPW). Before that he was doing participatory action research for Leiden university at the crossroads of social and physical urban redevelopment w...Show More
2) Participatory Guarantee Systems for Agroecological Farming: An Interview with Dr. Markus Frank
Skip Bivens speaks with Dr. Markus Frank about his long-term work in Argentina with small-hold farmers in the Patagonia region. Markus situates his work at the convergence of participatory research, a...Show More
3) Participatory Digital Storytelling for Mental Health in Guyana: An Interview with Dr. Anne Mitchell
Dr. Anne Mitchell sits down with Action Research Yes/And co-host Skip Bivens to talk about community mental health research in her native Guyana using participatory digital storytelling (DST). Anne's ...Show More
4) Theater of Policy Making for Youth Mental Health with Prof. Sonia Bussu
Hilary Bradbury and Sonia Bussu talk about how youth who suffer mental health problems (anxiety, ADHD etc) successfully got on the radar of policy makers. Using legislative theatre their action resear...Show More
5) Action Research At Home and Abroad: An Interview with Dr. Felix Bivens
We thought it might be interesting for our listeners to know a bit more about Dr. Felix Bivens – Skip – who is co-host for the AR+ Yes/And podcast with Hilary Bradbury. Here Skip talks with Hilary ab...Show More
6) Simon Divecha on Action Research and Mindset Transformations
Simon Divecha, PHD came unexpectedly to live in Europe having lived in Australia/New Zealand and USA. It was a return of sorts as he had grown up in Glasgow of Scottish and Indian heritage. During ...Show More
7) Ep 24: Nurturing a New Generation of Action Researchers at the Orkestra Institute
In this episode of Action Research Yes/And, co-host Skip Bivens interviews Dr. Miren Estensoro, Dr. Patricia Canto, and pre-doctoral researcher Naia Begiristain—a trio of action researchers from the O...Show More
8) Roma Access to Public Services in Hungary
In this episode of Action Research Yes/And, co-host Felix ‘Skip’ Bivens speaks with Hungary-based researchers Dr. Violeta Vajda, Kata Kárász, and Gábor Daróczi. This team has just published a multi-ye...Show More
9) Andrea Rodericks on Navigating Partnerships in Action Research
Hilary Bradbury, founder and curator at AR+, talks with Andrea Rodericks, an independent action researcher active in international development in Asia. Andrea lives between Goa, India and Atlanta, USA...Show More
10) Action Research for Exploring Kinship Networks in a Time of Eco-Social Crisis
In her address to the 2025 UAE Family and Society Conference, Dr. Hilary Bradbury introduces action research as a social change and transformations methodology that is helping post conventional kinshi...Show More