COMPAS Seminar Series, Thursdays, Hilary Term 2018
Migration and related issues including integration continue to be highly salient on public and policy agendas around the world. Across policymaking, media, business, and civil society, from the international to neighbourhood level: researchers are often asked, and increasingly required, to engage with a range of public and private organisations. This engagement potentially takes different forms and directions, from conventional public communication, to collaborative knowledge exchange, to participatory research. Increasingly, users not only demand research, data, and knowledge on these topics, but also opportunities for peer-to-peer exchange of expertise and ideas.
But, these new forms of engagement in the academy are subject to social, political, and ethical constraints—not least of all public distrust in expertise and experts. They also raise questions about the appropriate role of researchers in contributing to processes of social change. As the political economy of universities is changing in the UK to emphasise impact activities, there is a need to think critically about what is precisely meant by impact, the processes involved in generating it, and how it relates to broader questions about how migration research is and should be designed and executed. This seminar series aims to contribute to discussions about the ongoing and evolving roles of researchers in public life, a question that is relevant both within migration studies and in other humanities and social science fields. Through interventions that feature contributions from both theory and practice, it examines the promises, pitfalls, and possibilities associated with thinking about research that goes beyond limited conceptions of impact.
Read the briefing note ‘Beyond Impact?’ Thinking critically about knowledge exchange and impact in Migration Studies and beyond
Knowledge Exchange, Practice and Impact: Opportunities and Challenges in a New Era for the Academy
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (Professor of English and Knowledge Exchange Champion for the Humanities Division, University of Oxford), followed by discussion facilitated by Sarah Spencer CBE (Director of the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity, COMPAS)
Read the associated COMPAS blog Beyond Impact? Knowledge Exchange, Practice and Impact: Opportunities and challenges in new era for the academy by Jacqui Broadhead.
Brokering Knowledge in Research with Refugee and Migrant Case Workers
Sara de Jong (Research Fellow, Citizenship and Governance at The Open University)
Kate Smart (Asylum Welcome, Oxford)
Almas Farsi (Asylum Welcome, Oxford)
The Politics of Evidence and Knowledge in a Polarised World
Christina Boswell (Professor of Politics at University of Edinburgh; Founder and Former Co-Director of the Centre for Science, Knowledge, and Policy)
Telling Stories to Communicate Data and Evidence
Sunder Katwala (Director, British Future)
Alan Smith OBE (Data Visualisation Editor, The Financial Times; Former Principal Methodologist in Data Visualisation at the UK Office for National Statistics)
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge Exchange and Migration
Sarah Harper (Professor of Gerontology, University of Oxford; Founder and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Population Ageing)
Sundeep Lidher (Project Researcher, Our Migration Story, Runnymede Trust)
Jessica Lutkin (Research Impact Officer, University of Reading)
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