a case study of a research project I conducted that used audio documentary as a nondeliberative participatory research method. The chapter closes with a reflection and summary of the project and related processes, including lessons learned and implications for future work. Nondeliberative group work practice Nondeliberative group work practice considers and incorporates ‘artful, actional and analogic forms of solution-seeking’ ( Lang, 2016 , p. 103) in order to stimulate group members conative styles of engagement and problem solving. A key distinction of
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with the dissemination of findings in this study via audio content. As Makagon and Neumann (2009: 26) recognise, such audio content adds ‘sensorial depth’ to qualitative studies, which is missing from solely written accounts. Typically, dissemination practices consist of publishing articles in academic journals and writing books that sit unread by the wider public in university libraries (Richardson, 2000). In this project, the youth-led participatory research involved the co-production of an audio documentary and three-part radio series, broadcast on KCC
