SOLAR Publications & On-line Resources
Percy-Smith, B. and Thomas, N. eds (2009) Handbook of children’s participation: Perspectives from practice and theory. London: Routledge (in progress)
Taylor, M. and Percy-Smith, B. (2008) Children’s Participation: Learning from and for community development, International Journal of Children’s Rights, 16, 3, pp. 379-394
Evaluation in complex governance arenas: the potential of large system action research (136 KB in .pdf format)
Danny Burns (2006)
in B. Williams and I. Imam, Using systems concepts in evaluation, Fairhaven, MA: American Evaluation Association.
Children Fund's Northamptonshire Report (1.86 MB in .pdf format)
Barry Percy-Smith and Dianne Walsh
Improving services for Children, Young People and Families
This report documents the learning and actions for change to improve services for children and families experiencing difficulties, which have resulted from a systemic action research evaluation of the Children’s Fund Northamptonshire. This phase of the evaluation was undertaken between July 2004 and November 2005. It also builds on 2 years previous action inquiry evaluation of the Children’s Fund and research and development work in-house within the Children’s Fund team. (Includes 'Rivers of Experience')
Making children’s participation in neighbourhood settings relevant to the everyday lives of young people (111 KB in .pdf format)
Barry Percy-Smith and Karen Malone
The ideas presented in this paper are based primarily on our work with children in neighbourhoods in the United Kingdom (Percy-Smith 1999; 2001) and Australia (Malone & Hasluck 2001, Malone 1999, Chawla & Malone, in press), two of the four industrialised nations researched in conjunction with the international Growing Up In Cities programme (Chawla 2001).
PLA Notes (2001), Issue 42, pp 18–22, IIED London
Mind the Gap (3.83 MB in .pdf format)
Barry Percy-Smith, Danny Burns, Susan Weil, Dianne Walsh
This document captures the learning and insights from a short “action inquiry” into youth health needs in Hounslow conducted between October 2002 and March 2003. The work was initiated by Hounslow Community Health Council to identify and communicate the unmet health needs of young people in Hounslow.