Event led by Prof Jayne Osgood

This workshop will consider why/how it matters whose ideas you engage with and cite in your work. Following recent calls to 'decolonise the curriculum' it is especially important to critically interrogate how knowledge is produced and valued through doctoral research.  Writing with integrity and recognising the political nature of citation involves uncovering, problematising and undoing the enduring effects of colonialism. Academic research is concerned to generate new ideas, and part of that mission should involve creating space for marginalised and silenced voices to be heard. Therefore, a doctorate can make visible how (certain sorts of) knowledge gets produced and validated above others. This session will explore the ways in which research holds capacities to expose and challenge power asymmetries by asking a series of difficult questions about the relationship between researcher and researched. You will be invited to consider issues such as transparency, accountability, reciprocity, subjectivity and proximity to those participating in research. You will then be encouraged to critically (re-)appraise assumptions about different sorts of knowledge and recognise knowledge hierachies. Developing a heightened awareness and attunement to your researcher subjectivity, your worldview, and your situated knowledges makes it possible to spot (unintentional) processes of othering, power asymmetries and knowledge production. 

This will be an online event; join via Zoom

Link - https://mdx-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95699508344  

Zoom Meeting ID: 956 9950 8344