This paper considers the use of participatory methods in international development research, and asks what contribution these can make to the definition and measurement of well-being. It draws on general lessons arising from the project level, two larger-scale policy research processes sponsored by the World Bank, and the experience of quality of life studies. It also considers emerging experim...

This paper considers the use of participatory methods in international development research, and asks what contribution these can make to the definition and measurement of well-being. It draws on general lessons arising from the project level, two larger-scale policy research processes sponsored by the World Bank, and the experience of quality of life studies. It also considers emerging experim...

Participatory search can be defined as a search service framework where each participant takes care of gathering information and contributing indexes to a central location where the indexes are integrated and deployed for running a search service. Participatory search has distinguishing characteristics with respect to other search service architectures, among these the ability to share with oth...

Participatory urbanism platforms must balance stakeholder needs to both empower citizens and exact change from the local authority. While many platforms can trigger discussion, changes will only be achieved through successful collaborative efforts. This paper outlines the challenges and opportunities of designing for participatory urbanism, drawing on a case study completed with UNICEF and unde...

Most statistics courses at the college (or high school) level, whether conducted in departments of statistics, mathematics, psychology, or elsewhere, are taken as a requirement by students who, unfortunately, often have little interest in the subject. There are several excellent textbooks at this level, and lecture time is often used to present examples--including realistic applications of stat...

Recentstudiesindicatethatyouth’sincreasedexposuretopoliticalcontentonsocialmediaplatforms doesnotcorrelatepositivelywithanincreasedinterestinpolitics.Thisseeminglycontradictoryhigh exposureversuslowinterestindicatesacertainlevelofapathytowardspoliticalparticipation.This articleproposesthatinorderforyouthtoexperienceastrongerengagementinpart...

This study examines ‘participatory journalism’ from the perspective of participants. Through a series of in-depth interviews with 32 participants from two different participatory journalistic environments set up by professional news organizations, we investigated how participants view and evaluate their participation in journalism. We propose that participants views progress through a series of...

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Participatory medicine refers to the equal participation of patients and interdisciplinary healthcare team (IHT) members as part of care delivery. Facilitating workflow execution is a significant challenge for participatory medicine because of the need to integrate IHT members into a common workflow. A further challenge is that patient preferences should be considered when executing a workflow....

Of late, there has been a renewed and reinvigorated exchange of ideas across science and technology studies and participatory design, emerging from a shared interest in ‘publics’. In this article, we explore the role of participatory design in constituting publics, drawing together recent scholarship in both science and technology studies and participatory design. To frame our discussion, we pr...