Community-led research : walking new pathways together / Victoria Rawlings , James Flexner, Lynette Riley (Eds)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: walking many paths towards a community-led paradigm .-- 1 Community-Led Research through an Aboriginal lens .-- 2 Way more than a town hall meeting: connecting with what people care about in community-led disaster planning .-- 3 It’s right, wrong, easy and difficult: learning how to be thoughtful and inclusive of community in research .-- 4 The killer boomerang and other lessons learnt on the journey to undertaking Community-Led Research .-- 5 What is a researcher? Definitions, bureaucracy and ironies in the Australian context .-- 6 Who steers the canoe? Community-led field archaeology in Vanuatu .-- 7 Researcher or student? Knowing when not to know in Community-Led Indigenous research .-- 8 Trepidation, trust and time: working with Aboriginal communities .-- 9 Pushing back on ‘risk’: co-designing research on self-harm and suicide with queer young people.

The concept of community-led research has taken off in recent years in a variety of fields, from archaeology and anthropology to social work and everything in between. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the Pacific and Southeast Asia, this book considers what it means to participate in community-led research, for both communities and researchers. How can researchers and communities work together well, and how can research be reimagined using the knowledge of First Nations peoples and other communities to ensure it remains relevant, sustainable, socially just and inclusive?