In Cinthya's workshop she describes the importance of her relationships with the research collective she formed but also relationships with members of the wider community of undocumented students.
What relationships are key in your own research and how do you seek to develop them? Are there challenges you have faced in developing these relationships and how might these be overcome?
For me relationships are really the heart of why i am interested in PAR (and interestingly also my research topic, coincidence? I think not). It feels like without relationships the whole research process can seem totally detached from the key aims of PAR. Without authentic relationships there is no channel for communication between participants and researchers, or amongst a research collective. Without this communication or trust it is easy to feel like you are working in a participatory style without really capturing the priorities or directions participants want to go in - for me i look back on previous attempts at PAR and worry I was still only learning this but I guess it's a journey i'm still on!