Big Ideas – Citation Mapping (What Drives your and Others’ Research)

Big ideas often drive research agendas for decades. Consider how concepts like securitization, biopower, class inequality, or transitional justice have inspired work across disciplines.

At this event, you will have the opportunity to bring and discuss the one big idea (a concept, theory, or method) that is not your own but profoundly inspires and drives your current research project. You will be able to share and discuss this idea with likeminded scholars.

Following this, you will learn how to map citation networks and identify the scholarly network that has been promoting the big idea you are inspired by. With this exercise, we want to you to look beyond your immediate research project in two significant ways: first, we want to you to consider ideas that you may not have encountered previously because they come from a different discipline. Second, we want to you to see how your work is situated and imagine how this big idea could inform your research beyond completing the PhD.

Outcomes:

At this event, you will:

• Be able to situate yourself within your research field;
• See beyond the intellectual boundaries of your PhD and discipline;
• Consider your future research agenda;
• Learn how to create citation networks using the software VOSViewer.

Contributors:

Dr Daniel Marciniak is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull (and Deputy Director of the Security, Conflict and Justice Pathway for the WRDTP). Situated within surveillance studies and STS, his research focusses on the political economy of security technology, particularly with the adoption of AI in policing.

Dr Deirdre Conlon is Associate Professor at the School of Geography, University of Leeds (and Deputy Director of the Security, Conflict and Justice Pathway for the WRDTP). As a critical geographer, themes of her work are critical migration and border studies, the U.S. immigration detention system, immigration enforcement, carceral geographies and borders and belonging

Dr Maria Tzanou is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield (and Director of the Security, Conflict and Justice Pathway for the WRDTP). Her research focuses on European constitutional and human rights law, privacy, data protection, surveillance, the regulation of new and emerging technologies and the inequalities of data privacy law and how these affect vulnerable groups.

Important:

• This is an in-person event at the University of Hull (lunch and refreshments will be provided).
• Bookings will close at 9.00am on Tuesday 17th February.
• When booking, we ask that you use your institutional (.ac.uk) email address and complete all fields of the booking form. Thank you for your understanding.

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