Examinando por Autor "Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia"

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    Action research environments: challenges for their initiation and sustainability
    (Springer, 2024-12) Larrea Aranguren, Miren; Finnestrand, Hanne; Aranguren, Mari Jose; Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa; Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Costamagna, Pablo; Estensoro García, Miren
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    Bridging between action research communities: a pathway to connectivity
    (Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2020-04) Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Estensoro García, Miren
    The dialogic essence of Action Research (AR) poses a challenge of scope when attempting to achieve large-scale change. One way of addressing said challenge is through connectivity, an approach to the external validity of action research that focuses on the workability of new knowledge in other con-texts. In this paper we propose bridging between different action research (AR) communities as a pathway to connectivity. We identify the conditions that facilitate connectivity in bridging spaces between different AR communities, and show that change can ripple beyond the group where AR takes place, maintaining its contextual nature. Our research method is comparative case studies based on semi-structured interviews with two AR communities: one in Europe and the other in Latin America.
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    Communicating action research in pluralistic research environments: the case of Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness
    (Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad, 2025) Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia
    To proactively contribute to address the societal challenges being faced by their home territories, universities must transition from linear transferrers of knowledge to inter- and transdisciplinary innovation hubs. To that end, they must create pluralistic research environments where different methodological approaches can co-exist and combine. The literature on action research for territorial development (ARTD) shows that creating pluralistic research environments where action research can flourish is not free from tensions. In this chapter I address one such tension, understudied in said literature: The tension that emerges when its methodological specificities spill over to research communication. To that end I draw from a set of interviews I developed in Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness, at a time when it was transitioning from a positivist to a pluralistic research environment to fulfil its mission of acting as a proactive agent of change in its home territory. The interviews were meant to reflect on a novel analytical framework for the dialogic communication of academic production from action research projects. I draw insights from my learnings that may contribute to the wider discussion on the tensions that may emerge around research communication when transitioning to pluralistic research environments.
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    Communication in youth citizen social science
    (YouCount project, 2024) Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Borgström, David; Czeglédi, Alexandra; Hummer, Philipp; Skovbo, Cathrine Marie; Valle, Nagore
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    Comunicación de la Investigación Responsable como aproximación experimental a la investigación acción en tercera persona en la IADT
    (Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad, 2021) Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia
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    Construir futuros competitivos sostenibles a través de una investigación transformadora
    (Universidad de Deusto = Deustuko Unibertsitatea, Asociación de Licenciados en Ciencias Económicas, 2024-12) Aranguren, Mari Jose; Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Wilson, James Ralph
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    The contribution of higher education institutions to innovation ecosystems: Innovative practices from Higher Education for Smart Specialisation
    (Publications Office of the European Union, 2022) Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Wilson, James Ralph; Arregui Pabollet, Eskarne
    This technical report presents the results of a cross-case analysis of the eleven case studies conducted under the Higher Education for Smart Specialisation project during the period 2016-2020. The analysis identifies key themes and innovative practice examples from across case studies, developing a structured typology of innovative practices for higher education engagement in innovation ecosystems in the context of the design and implementation of Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3). More concretely, it contributes to identify: (i) The contribution of innovative practices to their regional innovation ecosystems and the design and implementation of S3. (ii) The key features of these practices that have made possible the transformative role of higher education in their regional innovation system, with particular attention to how they integrate education, research and innovation.
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    Engaging for sustainable development and transformation: exploring the concept of transformative academic institutions
    (Brill Academic Publishers, 2024) Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Smith, Madeline; Wise, Emily; Johnson, Michael Pierre
    Universities are expected to play a proactive role in the sustainable development and transformation of their regions. However, they face external and internal barriers to play that role. One possible approach to overcome those barriers is through transformative academic institutions (TAIs). TAIs are defined as research centres created within universities to proactively engage in territorial development processes and can act as 'living labs' from which universities can draw lessons when developing a regionally engaged role. The article explores the TAI concept further by posing the following research question: How does the TAI approach look like in different contexts? What factors support and/or hinder TAI development? To that end, we analyse the case of five academic partners working in different organisational research settings within larger university structures. Our exploration of TAI practices followed an action research approach with participatory design methods to identify commonalities, challenges, and opportunities. Findings point to a more strategic partnering with external (non-academic) actors to contribute to (longer-term) change processes that address regional sustainability challenges. This can take universities towards new roles in curating collective knowledge and catalysing and facilitating change.
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    Logrando una mayor colaboración y solidaridadentre las comunidades de investigación-acción a nivel mundial: ensayo conjunto
    (Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad, 2024) Arrona Etxaniz, Ainhoa; Bradbury, Hilary; Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Costamagna, Pablo; Estensoro García, Miren; Gayá, Patricia; Karlsen, James; Larrea Aranguren, Miren; Pratt, Susanne ; Rébola, Romina; Greenwood, Davydd J.
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    Participatory communication and citizen social science: lessons learned and new ethical and political challenges
    (Universita di Trieste, 2023) Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Brattbakk, Ingar; Budrytė, Paulina; Norvoll, Reidun
    This paper contributes to the discussion around the epistemic foundations of citizen social science (CSS) by drawing from participatory communication. We argue that the latter’s long history reflecting on the ethical and political challenges that emerge from its dialogical perspective to empowerment and social change, could enhance the nascent CSS concept. In establishing that relation we also explore how CSS can further develop participatory communication. To that end we look into YouCount, an ongoing CSS project that, from its inception, has understood dialogical communication as inextricably linked to the research process. Our main findings are that: (i) old challenges related to the instrumental use of participatory communication are relevant to CSS; (ii) CSS offers a space to transcend entrenched narratives around knowledge production and communication that hindered the participatory communication paradigm; and, (iii) CSS has the potential to expand participatory communication’s scope through its use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) but faces important challenges related to research control of personal data and disclosure.
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    Research institutes as change agents in territorial development: An analytical framework on responsible research communication
    (Universidad de Deusto, 2019-03-25) Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Larrea Aranguren, Miren; Eizagirre Eizagirre, Andoni; Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas; Programa de Doctorado en Derechos Humanos: Retos Éticos, Sociales y Políticos por la Universidad de Deusto
    Research institutes created within universities with the explicit mission of engaging in the socio-economic development of their territories can help universities to overcome the challenges they face when attempting to produce socially relevant knowledge. Through their more open and flexible governance, such institutes can develop research processes with other territorial actors to address local or regional challenges and produce new knowledge relevant in academia. While the literature has addressed how such research processes develop, highlighting the role played by dialogue, considerably less attention is paid to how the research outputs of dialogical research processes are communicated. This dissertation addresses the gap in the literature on the dialogical dissemination of research outputs. To that end, it builds an analytical framework on Responsible Research Communication (RRC) in two steps. The first step identifies the main features of responsible research communication through a literature review on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Communication for Development and Social Change (CDSC). The second step tests the analytical framework in practice using action research as a method. The action research process consists of helping two researchers to communicate a research output (a book) reflecting on the features of the analytical framework on RRC. The lessons learnt from testing the theoretical features in practice are incorporated and the analytical framework is reformulated. The robustness of the reformulated analytical framework on RRC is then tested with a diversity of researchers working in a research institute with the explicit mission of acting as an agent of change in its territory. The dissertation concludes with recommendations on RRC for research institutes, stakeholders and individual researchers and opens future lines of research.
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    Responsible research communication as an experimental approach to third-person inquiry in ARTD
    (Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad, 2020) Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia
    La Investigación Acción para el Desarrollo Territorial (IADT) nace como investigación en segunda persona y ha explorado la investigación en primera persona. En este capítulo propongo un enfoque experimental para la investigación en tercera persona. Ésta trata de promover el cambio dentro de las organizaciones, regiones o sociedad en general. El enfoque que propongo vincula específicamente la investigación en segunda persona con la investigación en tercera persona a través de la difusión dialógica de los resultados académicos que resultan de los procesos en segunda persona. La investigación en tercera persona y la IADT conectan a través del marco de Comunicación de la Investigación Responsable (CIR). La CIR, desarrollada dentro de IADT, propone un marco para comunicar los resultados de investigación que surgen de procesos de investigación en segunda persona de forma dialógica, con el fin de que estos sean accionables en otros contextos. Este capítulo parte del planteamiento de que la CIR puede ayudar a crear espacios experimentales para desarrollar procesos en tercera persona en la IADT. Para explorar este argumento, analizo los elementos del marco de la CIR en la práctica. Ello permite identificar su relevancia para la investigación en tercera persona. Con dicho fin estudio el caso de un espacio virtual diseñado conforme al marco de la CIR para compartir un resultado académico específico: un libro. Al momento de escribir este capítulo, el espacio virtual había estado en línea durante casi dos años, lo que permitió explorar si la CIR puede ayudar a crear espacios experimentales para procesos de investigación en tercera persona en la IADT. Como resultado del análisis surge un marco reformulado para experimentar con procesos de investigación en tercera persona. En el marco reformulado, smart (inteligente) es una característica central porque aborda directamente el desafío del alcance que afrontan los procesos en segunda persona. Además, esta característica tiene una dimensión facilitadora ex ante e in situ que debe combinarse para que los resultados académicos de procesos en segunda persona sean accionables en otros contextos. Una futura línea de investigación que surge de este capítulo es demostrar cómo se crean las conexiones entre la investigación en primera, segunda y tercera persona en la IADT. Por lo tanto, este capítulo es una invitación a la comunidad que trabaja en el marco de la IADT a utilizar el marco propuesto y asumir el desafío de experimentar con procesos de investigación en tercera persona. También es una invitación a la comunidad de investigadoras en la acción para continuar reflexionando sobre el reto de escalar el potencial de la investigación acción para promover el cambio social de forma democrática.
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    Rethinking the communication of action research: can we make it dialogic?
    (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2022-06) Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Larrea Aranguren, Miren
    The paper proposes connectivity as an interactive approach to communicating research results from action research processes. It argues that action researchers tend to communicate their research results to the action research community in linear ways, which is inconsistent with the principles of action research. In so doing, action researchers miss out on an opportunity to engage in learning processes with other action researchers. Such learning processes may lead to the creation of new workable knowledge and to stronger communities of practice. The paper builds on action research (which focuses on interaction during the research process) and on participatory communication (which focuses on interaction during the communication process) to explore connectivity in practice and to contribute to its theoretical development. It presents an action research process developed in a research institute in Spain’s Basque region as a case study to elaborate that while connectivity may not be a feasible option in all cases, it does invite action researchers to rethink their expectations when writing to communicate new knowledge generated by their action research processes.
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    Los retos de la co-generación en la búsqueda del impacto social de la universidad: un caso de construcción de un espacio dialógico a través de la investigación acción
    (Historia de los Sistemas Informativos (HISIN), 2018-11-02) Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Costamagna, Pablo; Eizagirre Eizagirre, Andoni; Larrea Aranguren, Miren
    Al centro del debate sobre el impacto social de la universidad se encuentra una nueva división del trabajo en la producción de conocimiento que pueda responder a los retos de la sociedad. Esta nueva división del trabajo es más compleja y advierte un giro epistemológico en la forma de organizar la interacción entre conocimiento académico y sociedad. Este artículo plantea cuatro retos identificados a partir de un caso de construcción de un espacio dialógico para la co-generación de conocimiento. El caso, desarrollado a través de la investigación acción, cuestiona el esquema que empaqueta el conocimiento generado en la universidad en forma de artículos, libros, informes o conferencias y que lo comunica de forma lineal y plantea otro basado en el diálogo que permite a los otros actores aportar su propio conocimiento.
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    Transformative academic institutions: an experimental framework for understanding regional impacts of research
    (Oxford University Press, 2021-01-09) Aranguren, Mari Jose; Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Wilson, James Ralph
    Public and private research funding to academic institutions is increasingly conditional on demonstrating societal impact. Research is expected to produce new knowledge that is both relevant in academia and of direct practical use in society. Universities are well placed to serve as links between global academic communities and local problem owners. However, playing this pivotal role is problematic because in practice there is a tendency to frame the dual role of producing socially relevant and academic knowledge in terms of an artificial distinction between applied consultancy and basic research. Considering the challenges faced by universities in playing a more proactive role in addressing the practical challenges faced by their home regions, we propose the term transformative academic institutions to refer to research centres created within universities to proactively engage in the socioeconomic development of the regions in which they are rooted. We propose an experimental framework that can help map the relationship between their role in a global academic knowledge community and their role in the (local) practical knowledge community. The framework is developed from on our own experience working in an academic institution that conducts research to strengthen regional socioeconomic development processes. We experiment with the framework through an application to our own research context in the period 2016-19. Our findings show that this relationship can be mapped by assessing: (1) how well academic research questions are aligned to themes identified in regional policy discourse; and (2) whether academic knowledge has demonstrably led to changes actioned by regional stakeholders.
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    La universidad cotransformadora
    (Orkestra-Instituto Vasco de Competitividad, 2021) Aranguren, Mari Jose; Canto Farachala, Martha Patricia; Caro-González, Antonia; Larrea Jiménez de Vicuña, José Luis