Schedule
These are the classroom sessions, including both more-or-less conventional presentations and very participatory exercises:
- History and Frontiers of Permaculture Research
- Permaculture Design for Research Projects: Design Process and Action-Research
- Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Food Security for Malawian Permaculture Smallholders
- Permaculture Research, Funding Opportunities, and Policy Trajectories in Portugal, the EU, and Beyond
- Creating a Shared Permaculture Research Agenda
- Global Carbon Farming Research and Modeling
- Methods for Permaculture Research: Broad Interdisciplinary Overview
- Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Permaculture Production Systems
- Ecosystem Health Monitoring: A Systemic Approach
- US Community Food Forest Research: Design, Management, and Practices
- US Forest Farming: On-Farm Research and Field Survey
- People’s Science, Partnerships, and Networks
- UK Permaculture Association’s Citizen Network and the Permaculture International Research Network
- Permaculture Farm Research in France: History, Methods, and Findings
There will also be two Methods Practicums:
- The Permaculture Research Station: Design and Implementation for Vale da Lama
- Qualitative Methods: Fostering and Harvesting Collective Knowledge
Design Projects will begin on the second day, and will allow for individual or group projects, with group processes based on participant role and research topic
- Day 2: Identifying and Refining Research Questions
- Day 3: Surveying and Selection Methods
- Day 4: Scaling Up and Connecting
- Day 5: Project Presentations