Informed Consent

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Whether PAR research is undertaken within or outside of academic structure informed consent is an ethically required process that must occur prior to participation. In this research an informed consent document was shared with co-researchers to inform them of the research purpose and potential benefits and challenges co-researchers may experience and information about the researcher, supervisors and the institutional structures and affiliations that the research was situated in.

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Informed Consent Extract

The project invites members of the public to participate in research and learning on transdisciplinary approaches to environmental adult education as co-researchers. The aim of the project is to create learning for action spaces for adults on the topic of socio-ecological justice and which may be collectively empowering to those who participate in the programme, their communities and society more broadly. Data collected through this practice-based and participant informed research process will be used to develop environmental adult & community education provision in Ireland and contribute to the field more generally. The project will involve public participation in a series of small-scale making workshops in outdoor settings to create a space and process for deep embodied dialogue on the root cause of social inequality and climate change and how to take collective action to address these. Environmental adult education is underpinned by feminist social and environmental  justice principals and engages with a range of sustainability education approaches and policies. The research is hosted by the Limerick School of Art & Design,  Technological Institute of the ShannonUS and funded by the Irish Research Council/