Can we fix it? Care-infused collaborative research practices

Speaker(s):

Q Manivannan, University of St Andrews

Abstract:

How do you collaborate with researchers, practitioners, professionals, and artists across different geographies, cultures, industries, and disciplines?

The workshop channels relational and interpretivist research practices to help participants learn to work collectively. From the intricacies of co-authoring reports and papers, to working in a team to perform ethical research, the workshop tackles often unspoken power dynamics (the 'senior' and 'junior' scholar and practitioner) alongside ways to navigate professional hierarchies in team projects. It roots these questions within the importance to contextualize research practices. The workshop draws from decades of research on care in the social and political sciences, in conversation with scholarship by bell hooks, Virginia Held, Nell Noddings, and Roxani Krystalli, to understand what care-infused and collaborative research looks like in our own work -- whether within academia, or without. Participants will have the opportunity to continue collaborations with fellow participants after the workshop's conclusion.