- Accept and use your privilege
- Ask how you can help and then do it
- Your assistance may not look academic
- Theory may be off-putting
- Creatively direct funds to community activists
- You will make mistakes: be humble
- The academy will not praise your engaged scholarship
- Be transparent about your goals, your funding, your findings
- Remember: activists raise families and work paid jobs too
- Co-present with your activist partner
- Provide support for child care, travel, food, lost wages
- Be prepared to act quickly
- Find ways to make the bureaucracy work for you
- Following the money may undermine your goals
- When grant funding ends, the work does not
- Document and archive
- Remember that academic life is marginal to many people
- Work across generations
- Thank your friends and family
- Renew: breathe, laugh, sleep, exercise
Created with the Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, UK, http://kwmc.org.uk/ together with the Productive Margins Programme at the University of Bristol.
