Introduction Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a way for professional researchers and community residents to collaborate on investigations into issues - such as housing, healthcare, and environmental conservation - with the goal of achieving positive social change. PAR values both scholarly and community-based perspectives to address questions related to living conditions, services, and policy, in order to make life better for people living in a given community, as defined by that community. The richness of the collaborative approach can lead to small-scale shifts, such as organizing to remove litter from a city block, as well as improvements on a larger scale, like reducing air pollution in a neighborhood, city, or state. Collaborate on PAR Projects Use this website to collaborate on PAR projects. Whether you belong to a community organization working on environmental justice issues, or are a concerned resident interested in staying in your gentrifying neighborhood, or a scholar studying how to increase diabetes awareness, with this website, you can: 
The Center for Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC) at The Field Museum would like to thank the Ford Foundation for its generous support in the creation of this website. We would also like to thank our many university and community partners in Chicago, whose experiences and day-to-day realities of PAR are represented here.
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