Decolonising Research: Inclusive & Participatory Methods for Recovery and Beyond

Transform the way you think about research.
This self-paced online course is designed for practitioners, researchers, and people with lived experience who want to challenge extractive systems and create knowledge that matters.

Why This Course?

Traditional research often reinforces hierarchy, concentrates power, extracts data, silences voices, and privileging dominant paradigms. Our approach flips the script. We centre knowledge sovereignty, reworlding, and participatory methods that affirm lived experience as a source of expertise.

What You’ll Learn

• Foundations of Decolonial Research
  Understand coloniality in research and explore antidotal practices that dismantle hierarchies.

• Inclusive & Participatory Methods
  Learn practical tools for co-production, photovoice, and community-led inquiry.

• Liberatory Practice
  Apply Freirean principles to empower participants as knowledge producers.

• Ethics Beyond Compliance
  Move from extractive ethics to relational accountability and reciprocity.

Course Features

• 10 Comprehensive Modules
  Each includes a mini-lecture, reading insights and practical exercises.

• Certificate of Completion
  Showcase your commitment to inclusive research practices.

• Self-Study Format
  Learn at your own pace—no facilitator required.

Who Is It For?

• People with lived experience of addiction and recovery

• Researchers and practitioners in health, justice, and social care

• Anyone committed to equity, participation, and decolonial approaches

Why It Matters

This course is more than training—it’s a movement toward epistemic justice. By adopting these methods, you help dismantle extractive systems and create research that heals rather than harms.

Ready to reworld research?