FAST Research

FAST uses action research, artistic inquiry, and other participatory research methods to:

• understand and articulate the needs and priorities of communities involved in FAST projects
• involve project participants in reflection on and analysis of their own experience
• produce articles, video, photo essays, reports and other documentation which can support project participants in having voice and visibility, locally and internationally
• deepen understanding of the role of creative and artistic processes in personal and social transformation
• assess and continuously improve the FAST process and project work
• produce project outcome evaluations to inform funding decision-makers
• develop a model of Leading Social Transformation, which includes:

1. identifying leadership skills required to enable socio-economic development

2. specifying characteristics of leadership in complex systems with multiple stakeholders and unpredictable political, economic and social conditions

3. understanding diverse local leadership traditions, values and behaviours and relating these to western models of leadership

4. analysing the obstacles to social justice, including economic, political, and psychological factors

5. exploring leadership as a collective – rather than an individual – capacity
   

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