Teaching Social Research Methods: Taking a Decolonial Approach
Speaker(s):
Bio: I am a Commissioning Editor at Sage, working on our Research Methods books list out of the London office. I joined the team in 2018 as an Editorial Assistant, working across a range of titles spanning quant, qual and everything in between. After a secondment as a Development Editor, working on books across Business & Management, Nursing, and Psychology, I re-joined the Research Methods team as Commissioning Editor, driven by the philosophy that research - and knowing how to do it well, ethically, and equitably - matters. Outside of work you can find me sewing, singing or tackling my ever-growing unread shelf.
Umeeka Raichura, Research Methods Commissioning Editor
Abstract:
This panel session will explore how research methods teaching can highlight/support decolonial approaches to research methods and methodologies.
Panelists will share their experience of embedding principles of decolonisation into research methods teaching with undergraduate and postgraduate students across the social sciences. With an emphasis on peer learning and collaboration, the session aims to showcase good practice for nurturing both student understanding of decolonial approaches to methods and methodologies, and their ability to apply such theories and concepts to their own research projects.
The first half of the session will include lightning talks from lecturers talking about their experience of teaching research methods from a critical perspective. The second half of the session will be a discussion spring-boarding from audience Q&A.
The session is aimed at anyone actively teaching social research methods who wants to, or has been, employing principles of decolonisation in their teaching.