Research and Publications

One of PLEDJ’s founding ambitions is to bring academia closer to the community - to utilise scholarship for communities and reciporically have communities better inform research and academic processes. Our primary approach to research aims to provide resources at individual, community and policy levels. We create and share research about the making and mobilization of local knowledges and practices of social justice and conflict. We use experimental methods framed by participatory action research to collaborate with local keepers as experts, incorporate their traditions as instrumental to social transformation, and promote indigenous pedagogies as essential to unsettling inequalities. Our research also collaborates with community-based organisations and student training. The knowledge outputs of our research are diverse and focus on multimedia, open access products such as training handbooks that amplify knowledge sharing between people.