Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is an independent sociologist and bestselling author. She has published over thirty-five books, earning commercial and critical success in both nonfiction and fiction, and her work has been translated into many languages. Among her book publications, she is the author of Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice, now in its third edition, and Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Approaches. She has received career awards from the New England Sociological Association, the American Creativity Association, the American Educational Research Association, the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, and the National Art Education Association. In 2018, she was honored by the National Women's Hall of Fame and SUNY-New Paltz established the "Patricia Leavy Award for Art and Social Justice." Her website is www.patricialeavy.com.

• Popularizing Scholarly Research: Working with Nonacademic Stakeholders, Teams, and Communities


• Preface


• 1. Introducing Methods for Working with Nonacademic Stakeholders, Teams, and Communities, Patricia Leavy


• 2. Composing an Undivided Life as an Activist/Scholar: Methods for Practicing Engaged Social Movement Scholarship, Adria D. Goodson


• 3. Ethical Issues Working with Vulnerable Populations, Isabel Araiza


• 4. Outsiders-Within: Counternarratives, Cultural Productions, and Crossing-Over, Venus E. Evans-Winters, Theresa Y. Robinson, Norris Chase, Teresa Lawrence Jones


• 5. Citizens' Juries Michel P. Pimbert


• 6. Ethical Challenges Community-Based Researchers and Community-Based Organizations Face: Can We Still Work Together?, Margaret Boyd


• 7. Participatory Action Research: A Theoretical and Critical Introduction, Caroline Lenette and Natasha Nesvaderani


• 8. The Impossible Task of Community Art Practice: A Methodological Micro-Guide for Seven Young Chicagoans, Jorge Lucero and William Estrada


• 9. They Come and Ask Us to Build It: Mirror Theatre's Story of Relationships with Stakeholders


• 10. For the Sake of Humanity: Research on Cross-Cultural Collaborative Arts for Public Health, Wendy L. Sternberg


• 11. (Un)Settling Imagined Lands: A Par/Des(i) Approach to De/colonizing Methodologies, Kakali Bhattacharya


• 12. Team Research, Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier and Judith Davidson


• 13. Disaster Research: Past, Present, and Future, Mark R. Landahl, Deedee M. Bennett, and Brenda D. Phillips

In Popularizing Scholarly Research: Working with Nonacademic Stakeholders, Teams, and Communities, Leavy covers social movements, ethical issues working with vulnerable populations, outsider-insider issues, citizens' juries, community-based research, participatory action research, community art-making, theatre, cross-cultural research, decolonizing methods, team research, and disaster research.