Project resources
These resources were produced by the Pathways through Participation team during the course of the project. We’d love to hear what you think and how you’re using them, so please drop us an email with any feedback.
Final report
This is the final report of the project. Based on 101 interviews, it explores people’s experiences of participation, how and why participation begins continues and stops, and the links and patterns in people’s participation.
Summary report
This report summarises the findings from the project and our recommendations for future policy and practice.
Informing and influencing policy
This briefing paper summarises the findings and implications for national policy agendas.
Local engagement in democracy
This briefing paper summarises the findings and implications for local engagement in democracy.
Volunteering as a participation pathway
This briefing paper summarises the findings and implications for volunteer management.
Research, engagement and impact
This briefing paper reviews the project’s approach to research and stakeholder engagement, highlights how the project set about linking research to policy and practice, and critically assesses some of the research methods and tools that were used.
Understanding participation: A literature review
This report is a literature review exploring participation in context (historical and current), in practice (the activities and actors), and in theory (the concepts).
Download the literature review
Reviewing the literature
These briefing papers summarised the findings of the literature review:
What are the drivers of participation?
Project reports
These reports covered our emerging findings and reflections on our approach:
Strengthening participation: Learning from participants
Using participatory mapping to explore participation in three communities
Situated practice: Initial reflections on the organisation of participation
Learning and action workshop materials
Conference papers
Here you will find conference papers we have presented during the course of the project.
Presentations
Here you will find presentations we have given during the course of the project.
Newsletter
Here you will find an archive of our newsletter during the course of the project.
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