Overview

If we don't have the kinds of health and human services or even the kinds of lives, communities and organisations we want, then we need to think differently. Yoland Wadsworth offers an inspired insight and radically new proposition: that the act of our 'inquiring', of researching and evaluating together, is the way by which every living organism and all collective human life goes about continuously achieving the conditions for life. Human Inquiry for Living Systems: Building in Research and Evaluation for Life explores this new approach for bringing about both wanted change and stability. By inquiring around ‘full cycles’ of acting, observing, questioning, feeling, reflecting, thinking, planning and acting again, Yoland identifies how new life might be brought to what we do. All three of Yoland Wadsworth's best-selling books have been brought together in this Routledge trilogy to offer for the first time a coherent body of work addressing the pressing needs of people to 'inquire their way' to the future.

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‘… this work is unquestionably original and in major ways innovative.’ Raewyn Connell, International Sociological Association's quadrennial awardee for Excellence in Research and Practice ‘Yoland Wadsworth displays an extraordinary capacity to integrate many different perspectives, theories, constructs and approaches within an overarching accessible framework. … Sound and persuasive, insightful, important and inviting. A great contribution’ Michael Quinn Patton, Author of Utilization-Focused Evaluation ‘... the value of work at this level is paradigmatic’ Peter Reason Emeritus, Editor, Action Research Journal ‘Highly original. . . Credible and useful. Grounded in pioneering empirical research.’ Danny Burns, Professor of Organisational Learning ‘Brilliant ... I’m not aware of any other book of this nature. The examples are impressive.’ Linette Hawkins, Social Work Educator ‘An integrative book by a grandmaster of the field is a treasure.’ David Coghlan, Trinity College Dublin

Author Information

Yoland Wadsworth is a pathbreaker in research methodology and its use in social research in health, community and human services for over forty years. She has been an applied sociologist and consultant to community-based non-government organisations, self-help groups, and state, federal and local governments; an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University; Principal Fellow in the McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne; and deputy to the Director of the Policy & Research Branch in Premier & Cabinet, Victorian government. She is also author of the best-selling Do It Yourself Social Research (Vol 1 in this 40th anniversary Routledge trilogy), and Everyday Evaluation on the Run (Vol 2 in this 40th anniversary Routledge trilogy).

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