Local Matters: A Social Justice Approach to Tackling Poverty for Educators

Local Matters is a participatory research and teaching programme that works alongside educators to investigate and explore what we know about poverty (locally and nationally), train participants in social research methods, explore the local poverty context and then apply this knowledge and research skills, through action research, to make changes to school practice and policy. Essentially, we train school staff and the school community to be locally embedded social justice researchers.