This book is a collection of original pieces by practitioners and researchers from diverse locations who place social justice at the very centre of research processes and outcomes. The editors, Leslie Brown (Faculty of Social Work, University of Victoria) and Susan Strega (Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba) and 13 contributors from research and teaching backgrounds at Canadian universities and within their communities, bring their activism, feminism and scholarship to our understanding of various ways of knowing, being and doing. Theory, analysis and examples of participatory research renew one of the primary goals of social research—to inform about how life is experienced from the inside. These pages highlight the relationships between researcher and researched and transform the academy by making and taking space within it for marginalized researchers and ideas.