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Coloniality of research and spotlight on the research backstage

The third webinar on challenges facing field researchers
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Our world is changing, and academic research will never be the same. Field sites will be restricted, and travels will not be easy. In such circumstances, how do we forge more ethical and transparent research collaborations that produce knowledge that is accessible, meaningful and transformatory?

This webinar has three main aims: to spotlight the 'other' actors in the research backstage (research brokers, field navigators and assistants); discuss the treatment of research sites in the Global South by both Global North and South researchers; and finally, to highlight the ethical dilemmas and challenges of doing research in these anxiety filled and socially distanced times of the Corona pandemic.

We will discuss these ethical challenges from feminist and postcolonial perspectives and will hopefully be a conversation starter on global inequalities of knowledge production and dissemination, that continue to marginalise and silence people and communities during research processes, and in research outputs. 

The webinar is the third in a planned webinar series on challenges facing field researchers. You can find the previous here with Roddy Brett on 27 April and Dr. Tamara Last on 18 May.

Speakers
Dr. Swati Parashar is Director of the Gothenburg Centre for Globalisation and Development (GCGD), and Associate Professor in Peace and Development at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has published on research methods and ethics and is an investigator on the research project, Exploring the research backstage: Methodological, theoretical and ethical issues surrounding the role of local research brokers in insecure zones, funded by the Swedish Research Council (2018-2021).

Senior Reseacher Ninna Nyberg Sørensen is a senior researcher and head of the Migration & Global Order Department at DIIS. Apart from researching international migration, she is currently engaged in a study of the emotional challenges facing researchers conducting empirical research in insecure places.

Programme
14.00-14.10     Welcome and introduction, Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
14.10-14.40     The coloniality of research and the research backstage, Swati Parshar
14.40-15.10     Dialogue, comments and Q&A, moderated by Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
15.10-15.15     Wrap up

Recorded on Tuesday 15 June 2021 on Zoom. 

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15 June 2021 14:00–15:15

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Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
Migration and global order
Senior Researcher
+45 3269 8961