Queer Social Justice as Academic Practice - SGSAH Event

Queer Social Justice as Academic Practice - SGSAH Event

*Student travel bursaries available!

Queer Social Justice as Academic Practice is a participatory interdisciplinary workshop for PhD students providing provocations in ongoing research issues and urgencies. Situated within queer and feminist research methods, offering inspiration, critical reflection and practical sessions we think about what research matters, and why? Is our mattering measured in or beyond citation, or what other measures of ‘use’ might we imagine as we reconstruct our mattering? It (re)imagines academic practice through the lens of queer social justice, facilitated by key collaborators (incl Kirsty Dunlop, Adele Patrick, Glasgow Women's Library, Maria Sledmere, Coin-Operated Press, Yvette Taylor). With book launch event of 'Desi Queers: LGBTQ+ South Asians and Cultural Belonging in Britain' by Churnjeet Mahn, Rohit K. Dasgupta and DJ Ritu

Participants will encounter hands-on learning about the politics, power and purpose of knowledge; intersectionality, decoloniality & positionality; and collaborative writing, creative methods & KE.; feminist leadership. Workshop activities are grounded in real-world research, within and beyond the university, including creative, policy and activist organisations. We explore questions of sharing and representing research, including in/though/as collaborations and practice.

This workshop will be of particular interest to PhD students across arts and humanities as well as social sciences. It will be of interest to PhD students engaged in practice-based research, at any stage, from initial inception to dissemination.

Leaning will centre and stretch around these areas:

1) The practices and principles of research addressing questions of power, intersectionality, positionality, ethics and impact and via a range of interdisciplinary research methodologies and methods including archival, creative methods, textual analysis, oral history, ethnography, participant observation, participatory research, and practice-based research. We will consider what might make research methods 'queer'.

2) Engaging with interdisciplinary researchers, creators, policy influencers, working inside-outside of the academy, in order to reflect on questions about epistemology and knowledge exchange.

3) Critical reflection on questions of use, access, acquisitions, cataloguing and sharing beyond ‘our data’ in arts and humanities and social sciences.

4) Collaborative practices and shifting the story of solo success with the opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary conversations about queer-ness in the research process, and to network with feminist and queer researchers and practitioners.

*Day travel within Scotland.

Host or Publisher Yvette Taylor