Participatory action research

Cornish, F., Breton, N. N., Moreno-Tabarez, U., Delgado, J., Rua, M., Aikins, A. d., & Hodgetts, D. (2023). Participatory action research. Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43586-023-00214-1

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