Trajectories
of engagement

Participatory research is no longer an option; it’s an injunction. While the social consequences of this approach are often described through their effects on so-called participants, what happens to the scholars themselves, those who are moved, reshaped, or even implicated in these processes? This website – and its associated book – brings together 19 research projects from across diverse disciplines, each experimenting with participatory and collaborative forms of inquiry. Rather than prescribing what engagement should be, it investigates how it happens: the sparks that ignite it, the frictions that sustain or destabilise it, and the material and institutional conditions that make it possible or constrain it.