Mary Brydon-Miller

Mary Brydon-Miller, Ph.D. is Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville in the US. She is a participatory action researcher who conducts work in school, community, and organizational settings. She is the editor, with David Coghlan, of the SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research (2014). Her most recent book with Sarah Banks is Ethics in Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being: Cases and Commentaries (2019). She also edited Traveling Companions: Feminism, Teaching, and Action Research (2004) with Pat Maguire and Alice McIntyre, From Subjects to Subjectivities: A Handbook of Interpretive and Participatory Methods with Deborah Tolman (2001), and Voices of Change: Participatory Research in the United States and Canada with Peter Park, Budd Hall, and Ted Jackson (1993).

Her current work focuses on climate change education and the development of international partnerships to foster greater understanding and collective efficacy related to climate activism and environmental justice. She recently completed a Fulbright Research Fellowship at the University of Technology, Sydney and serves as Extraordinary Professor at North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. In addition to working with local middle-school students, she has also helped to develop and coordinate Ripple Effects, a community-based photography contest for students in the Greater Louisville area on the theme of water conservation and preservation.

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Banks, Sara and Brydon-Miller, M. (2018). Ethics in participatory research for health and social well-being: Cases and commentaries. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Brown, Lyn Mikel, and Carol Gilligan. (1991) Listening for voice in narratives of relationship. New directions for child and adolescent development. no. 54: 43-62.

Brydon-Miller, Mary, Patricia Maguire, and Alice McIntyre (Eds). (2004), Traveling companions: Feminism, teaching, and action research. Greenwood Publishing Group.

Brydon-Miller, Mary (2004). The terrifying truth: Interrogating systems of power and privilege and choosing to act. In Traveling companions: Feminism, teaching, and action research: 3-19.

Brydon-Miller, Mary, A. Rector Aranda, and Douglas M. Stevens. (2015). Widening the circle: Ethical reflection in action research and the practice of structured ethical reflection." The SAGE handbook of action research: 596-607.

Brydon-Miller, Mary, Davydd Greenwood, and Patricia Maguire. (2003) Why action research?. Action research 1, no. 1 : 9-28.

Coghlan, David and Mary Brydon-Miller (Eds.) (2014). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research. London: SAGE Publications.

Freidman, Victor, Israel Sykes, and Markus Strauch. (2014). Expanding the realm of the possible: Enclaves and the transformation of fields." In annual meeting of the academy of management, Philadelphia, PA.

Gilligan, Carol, & Eddy, Jessica. (2021). The Listening Guide: Replacing judgment with curiosity. Qualitative Psychology, 8(2), 141–151. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000213

Gilligan, Carol (2015) Listening Guide The Listening Guide method of psychological inquiry.

Gilligan, Carol, Renee Spencer, M. Katherine Weinberg, and Tatiana Bertsch. (2003). On the Listening Guide: A voice-centered relational method.

Harley, Dana (2015). Perceptions of hopelessness among low-income African-American adolescents through the lens of photovoice. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work 24, no. 1: 18-38.

Harley, Dana Michelle. (2011) Perceptions of hope and hopelessness among low-income African American adolescents." PhD diss., The Ohio State University.

Hellmann, Sarah (2011). Growing Up Hard: Understanding through creative expression the resilience, resistance, and images of relationships in the lives of three African American adolescent girls. Dissertation. University of Cincinnati.
https://www.proquest.com/openview/9ed30b0a1be9221a22ee848e3baa9b0a/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750

Jordan, Judith V., Alexandra G. Kaplan, Irene P. Stiver, Janet L. Surrey, and Jean Baker Miller (1991) Women's growth in connection: Writings from the Stone Center. Guilford Press.

Lester, Allison (date) Connection during disconnection: A four-article dissertation exploring the voices of undergraduate students learning to “hold space” for adolescents online during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Maguire, Patricia. (1987). Doing participatory research: a feminist approach. Amherst: Center for International Education, University of Massachusetts. Free download https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cie_participatoryresearchpractice/6/

Maguire, Patricia, Mary-Brydon-Miller, Alice McIntyre. Traveling Companions Quilt and Stories https://www.patriciamaguire.net/pdfs/Maguire,%20Brydon-Miller,%20McIntyre%20-%20Traveling%20Companions%20Quilt%20and%20Stories.pdf

Miller, Jean Baker (1986). What do we mean by relationships?. Vol. 22. Wellesley, MA: Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies, Wellesley College.

Morowski, Jill. (1997). The science behind feminist research methods. Journal of Social Issues, Special Issue. Transforming Psychology: Interpretive and Participatory Research Methods. Issue Editors Mary Brydon-Miller and Deborah L. Tolman. Vol 53, No 4. Pp667-682.

Noddings, Nel. (1984) Caring. In Justice and care, pp. 7-30. Routledge, 1995.

Noddings, Nel. (2013). Caring: A relational approach to ethics and moral education (updated). Berkeley, CA and Los Angeles: University of California Press (Original work published 1984).

Park, Peter, Budd Hall, Ted Jackson, and Mary Brydon-Miller (1993) Voices of Change - Participatory Research in the United States and Canada. Bergin & Garvey.

Pavy, Edwin Carl Jr., (2022). "I am who I am": LGBTQ+ student experiences at a Baptist liberal arts University. Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 4118. Retrieved from https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/4118
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/4118/
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Raider-Roth, Miriam, Mindy M. Gold, Gail Dorph, Mel Berwin, Sarah Clarkson, Ilana Gelemovich, and Merissa Rosetti. (2023). Bringing utopian visioning to educational leadership: participatory action research as professional learning." Educational Action Research: 1-17.

Bringing utopian visioning to educational leadership: participatory action research as professional learning: Educational Action Research: Vol 0, No 0 (tandfonline.com).

Stevens, Douglas, Mary Brydon-Miller, Mary, & Raider-Roth, Miriam (2016). Structured ethical reflection in practitioner inquiry: Theory, pedagogy, and practice. The Educational Forum, 80 (4), 430-443.

Walker, Maureen (2019). When Getting Along Is Not Enough: Reconstructing race in our lives and relationships. Teachers College Press.

Select Publications
Brydon‐Miller, Mary, and Bruce Damons (2019) Action research for social justice advocacy. The Wiley handbook of action research in education: 371-392.

Banks, Sara and Brydon-Miller, M. (2018). Ethics in participatory research for health and social well-being: Cases and commentaries. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Brydon-Miller, Mary. (2018). Critical learning, community, and engagement: Elements for creating positive learning environments and opportunities for positive change. Editorial essay. Educational Action Research, 26(3).

Brydon-Miller, Mary. & Coghlan, David. (2018). First-, second-, and third-person values- based ethics in educational action research: Personal resonance, mutual regard, and social responsibility. Educational Action Research. DOI: 10.1080/09650792.2018.1445539

Brydon-Miller, M.& Hilsen, A. I. (2016). Where rivers meet: Exploring the confluence of ecofeminism, covenantal ethics, and action research. In M. Phillips & N. Rumens (Eds.), Contemporary perspectives on ecofeminism (pp. 95-108). New York: Routledge.

Stevens, Douglas, Mary Brydon-Miller, Mary, & Raider-Roth, Miriam (2016). Structured ethical reflection in practitioner inquiry: Theory, pedagogy, and practice. The Educational Forum, 80 (4), 430-443.

Brydon-Miller, Mary, A. Rector Aranda, and Douglas M. Stevens. (2015). Widening the circle: Ethical reflection in action research and the practice of structured ethical reflection." The SAGE handbook of action research: 596-607.

Coghlan, David and Mary Brydon-Miller (Eds.) (2014). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research. London: SAGE Publications.

Brydon-Miller, Mary, Michael Kral, Patricia Maguire, Susan Noffke, Anu Sabhlok (2011). Jazz and the banyan tree. In N. Denzin, and Y. Lincoln (Eds). Handbook of qualitative research: 387-400.

Brydon‐Miller, Mary, and Patricia Maguire (2009). Participatory action research: Contributions to the development of practitioner inquiry in education." Educational action research 17, no. 1: 79-93.

Brydon-Miller, Mary, Patricia Maguire, and Alice McIntyre (Eds). (2004), Traveling companions: Feminism, teaching, and action research. Greenwood Publishing Group.

Brydon-Miller, Mary (2004). The terrifying truth: Interrogating systems of power and privilege and choosing to act. In Traveling companions: Feminism, teaching, and action research: 3-19.

Brydon-Miller, Mary, Davydd Greenwood, and Patricia Maguire. (2003) Why action research?. Action research 1, no. 1 : 9-28.

Tolman, Deborah L., and Mary Brydon-Miller (Eds). (2001). From subjects to subjectivities: A handbook of interpretive and participatory methods. Vol. 5. NYU Press,

Brydon-Miller, Mary Leanoir. (1987). Accessibility self-advocacy at an independent living center: a participatory research approach. (1984).