Exercises

  1. Define a research question for a study and identify the academic objective. Then, define a social change objective and based on this, a social change question. Describe your tasks through the participatory design sub-cycle.
  2. Who are your prime participants? Who are the relevant stakeholders? When defining the social change objectives, try to predict the interests of your participants and of each of the stakeholder groups. It can help you to map them and estimate the power relations as related to your research topic/question. You can use the diagram below to map your stakeholders:

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