Questions + Draft the Start of Your Research Plan

• Make an exhaustive list of questions that you would need the answers to in order to effectively research, scope, and understand your area of interest. At this stage do not edit your list but think back to your ecosystem map and think of all sorts of different types of questions and the stakeholders that you would need to include in this quest. Include questions that you would need to ask yourself.
• Write a Research Goal and Objectives for your potential thesis project.
• Submission instructions: enter text in Canvas Assignment Week 4.

Research Goal:

To understand the ways participatory policy research is being done, and to understand what the possibilities may look like in utilizing restorative frameworks and creative interventions to make the research better, and even healing for participants.

Outcome goal: Research and outcomes that are more effective and democratic

Process goal: Design processes for research that empower and provide healing to the participants.

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Goal:

Vision

Create processes and methods for restorative research

shift research beyond participatory towards collective healing

Enhance participatory research through restorative frameworks

Thesis Goal:

what you want to achieve not what you want to do

*best to create when you have a partner and community