Kathryn McGarry is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University, Ireland.Ciara Bradley is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University, Ireland. Gloria Kirwan is Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Healthcare Management at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University, Ireland.

“Challenging and unequal times call for research linked to social change. This book provides valuable examples of research for social justice across a range of areas. Insightful, thought-provoking and absolutely necessary.” Louise Warwick-Booth, Leeds Beckett University

• 1. Researching for social justice: an introduction - Kathryn McGarry, Ciara Bradley and Gloria KirwanPART I: Contextualising and theorising research for social justice2. Epistemic privilege as a social justice issue: knowing injustice and justice for knowers - Kathryn McGarry3. Epistemology, research design and social justice - Ciara Bradley and Lynsey Kavanagh4. Using a social justice lens in research engagements for community work and youth work practice - Sinead McMahon, Ciara Bradley and Hilary TierneyPART II: Designing and operationalising methodologies for social justice5. Using Poststructural Policy Analysis for social justice - Sinead McMahon6. Research with deaf and hard-of-hearing women: reimagining social justice as flourishing - Grainne Meehan7. Sanctuary: trespassing the enclosure of rights - David Donovan8. Using peer engagement to support the participation of people who use drugs in research - Brian Melaugh and Andy O’HaraPART III: Exploring case studies in research for social justice9. Beyond research extractivism in environmental justice research - Jamie Gorman10. When objects speak louder than words: material ethnography in social justice research - Gloria Kirwan and Calvin Swords11. An expanded conceptualisation and definition of engaged research - Rory Hearne12. Social justice as tool and process in research: progressing insight into children’s right to participation through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - Breda O’Driscoll and Gloria Kirwan13. The potential for Q-Methodology in promoting human rights and social justice: a case of social workers in practice research - Johanna O’Shea14. Reflecting as a pracademic in policy land: using research and practice to advance social justice in the hate crime policy domain - Seamus Taylor15. Concluding thoughts - Kathryn McGarry, Ciara Bradley and Gloria Kirwan