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Methodology

Project Becomings used a feminist participatory action research (FPAR) methodology, informed by post-qualitative inquiry and feminist new materialist thinking. Rather than treating participants as subjects of research, the project worked with survivor co-researchers as active contributors to how knowledge about trauma and recovery was explored, created and understood.

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The methodology was relational, creative and emergent. It recognised that knowledge is not produced through words alone, but can develop through bodies, materials, relationships, spaces, affects and the process of making together. This shaped not only the methods used, but how the research itself unfolded.

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Feminist Participatory Action Research

A collaborative approach to research that attends to power, lived experience and whose knowledge counts, working with people as co-researchers rather than simply researching them.

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Post-Qualitative Inquiry

An approach that understands knowledge as continually emerging through relationships between people, bodies, materials, spaces, experiences and the research process itself.

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Researcher Positionality And Reciprocity

An approach that recognises the researcher as part of the research rather than separate from it, attending to how lived experience, relationships, disclosure and power shape what becomes possible to know.

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Arts-Based And Creative Inquiry

Creative approaches that enable experiences and knowledge to be explored through making, materials, images, movement and other forms of expression beyond words alone.

Continue Exploring the Research

See how the methodological approaches connect with the ideas that shaped how trauma, recovery and knowledge were understood.

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