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Participatory Action Research (PAR) has been positioned as a means of addressing the current methodological limits within forced migration studies and sport. Yet, there are challenges in ensuring that PAR achieves its intended aims of collaboration, mutual respect, trust, accountability, fairness, and social transformation. This article stems from a PAR study exploring the relationships between sport and leisure and the wellbeing of young people from refugee backgrounds in London, UK. We offer a critical discussion of two overlapping and sensitizing issues in our work: (1) developing trust and negotiating reciprocal partnerships; (2) navigating ethical dilemmas and doing PAR with integrity. We argue that embedding a reflexive approach and developing trusting and reciprocal relationships allows us to collaboratively negotiate these issues and promote the benefits that may be derived to all partners involved through the participatory process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper sets out a research proposal and an agenda for understanding the international development context of women's experiences of netball in Malawi. The focus is to elaborate theoretical and methodological issues for researchers seeking to understand women's sport and international development. These points of discussion concern: (1) international development of netball; (2) use of sport for international development and social change; (3) history and politics of Malawi; (4) theoretical approaches to understanding gender, identities and intersectionality; and (5) problems of colonizing–decolonizing methodological approaches to understanding sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]