Chapter 7 Accommodating gypsy/travellers: inclusive approaches for collaborative and peer-led research with gypsy travellers

'Doing research' with Gypsy-Travellers in England: reflections on experience and practice

“…Such an approach demands more participatory based methods (Mayo and Rooke, 2008) and some researchers, the authors included, have begun to use this approach in research with Gypsy-Traveller communities (Greenfields and Home, 2006;Brown et al, 2007;Lomax, 2008) as one way of ensuring that the research instigates a process of empowerment for Gypsy-Travellers and enlightenment for the researchers and commissioners. Such participatory based approaches emerged originally from working with oppressed or powerless people and groups in developing countries (Fals-Borda and Anishur Rahman, 1991;Hall, 1993).…”