Comparer des méthodes

	Recherche biographique participative	Recherche-action participative (RAP)
Domaine	Qualitatif	Qualitatif
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1990s–2000s	1940s (Lewin); PAR as distinct tradition formalised ~1970s–1980s
Auteur d'origine	Intersection of biographical methods tradition (Denzin, Chamberlayne) and participatory action research (Lewin, Reason & Bradbury)	Kurt Lewin (action research foundations, 1940s); systematised for participatory contexts by Orlando Fals Borda, Paulo Freire, and William Foote Whyte
Type	Qualitative research design	Qualitative research method
Source fondatrice	Chamberlayne, P., Bornat, J., & Wengraf, T. (Eds.). (2000). The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science: Comparative Issues and Examples. Routledge. ISBN: 9780415196659	Kemmis, S., McTaggart, R., & Nixon, R. (2014). The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research. Springer.
Alias	collaborative biography, participatory life history, co-constructed biographical inquiry, PBR	PAR, community-based participatory research, collaborative action research, participatory inquiry
Apparentées	6	6
Résumé	Participatory Biographical Research (PBR) combines the in-depth life-story tradition of biographical methods with the collaborative ethos of participatory inquiry. Participants are not merely sources of data; they are active co-researchers who help design questions, interpret their own narratives, and validate emerging findings. The result is a richly layered account of individual lives that is jointly owned by both researcher and participant.	Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a qualitative, community-centred methodology in which researchers and community members collaborate as co-investigators to identify a shared problem, take deliberate action, observe outcomes, and reflect critically on results — cycling iteratively until meaningful change is achieved. Unlike conventional research that studies people from the outside, PAR treats participants as active agents who co-own the research process, the knowledge produced, and the practical interventions that follow.