Our mission is to foster interdisciplinary research and scholarship designed to promote equitable, just, and inclusive futures.
Our values
PARTICIPATE is a research cluster in the School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University that operates in ways that are:
- Collaborative, bridging different bodies of knowledge through interdisciplinary and, participatory approaches, often by working in partnership with civil society and professional organisations;
- Interdisciplinary, developing dialogues across and within existing disciplinary frameworks, theories and methodologies through historical and contemporary approaches
- Empowering, using methods and approaches that build agency and capacity of grassroots actors as well as researchers and students involved;
- Supportive, nurturing the talents of early-career researchers and PhD students in the cluster through sharing of good research practice, involvement in joint projects and providing constructive feedback on each other’s work;
- Empathic, understanding lived experiences despite gendered, developmental and intersectional differences;
- People-centred, enhancing wellbeing and quality of life through improved equity, justice and inclusion.
Supporting our members
We foster a support research environment through a range of activities facilitated for and by our members. Regular events and support includes:
• PARTICIPATE ‘shut up and write’ online sessions where we commit to progressing on a particular piece of writing during the session and supporting each other during brief check-ins;
• PARTICIPATE monthly lunch time talks to build research capacity through invited speakers as well as workshops and presentation hosted by our members
• 1:1 support through our PARTICIPATE mentors