Our team of University of Utah researchers (Drs. Sarah Canham, Jeff Rose, and myself) partnered with the Salt Lake Valley Coalition to End Homelessness' Lived Expert Task Group to create guidelines on how to conduct research on homelessness that centers lived expertise. Our presentation at the College of Social Work can be found here. 

Participatory action research (PAR), and other participatory and community-based research methods, ask us to (re)consider how power and roles are distributed on our research teams. But there is little guidance on how to put this inquiry into action. One of the research teams I am on, the Affirming Ground Project, has explored on how PAR teams work together -- we found that shared values help 'power-diverse' teams navigate ambiguity and decision-making, and that making power explicit is vital in doing equitable work together.

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We wanted to develop a tool that could help other PAR teams - and our own - (1) name our values, and (2) make power explicit on our team. We have piloted this tool with our original PAR team, as well as a second research team, using these teams' feedback to revise and improve upon the tool. You can find view and download our tools below.

Tools downloadable here. 

Paper accessible here (email for PDF).