From poverty to life chances: framing co-produced research in the Productive Margins programme

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Cohen ◽  
Allan Herbert ◽  
Nathan Evans ◽  
Tove Samzelius
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Participatory Practices

This chapter talks about how to engage with co-produced research and participatory practices from a community perspective. It discusses how co-produced interdisciplinary research experiences and knowledge exchanges facilitate interaction with members of the community, with academics and with artists as a part of the Productive Margins project. The programme is seeking to remap the terrain of regulation, by involving the knowledge, passions, and creativity of citizens often considered on the margins of politics and policymaking. However, rather than examining the progress and outcomes of the research project itself, the chapter analyses the settings and process leading up to the establishment of the research project: the formation of the working group where they explored the theme of poverty; and the Research Forum where academics and community partners came together to share knowledge and interdisciplinary ways forward.

scholarly journals ‘Shaking up’ neoliberal policy in schools: Looking for democratic alternatives in Jacinta’s satchel

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janean Robinson ◽  
Barry Down ◽  
John Smyth
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Strong Belief ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Young Lives

Our research is driven by a strong belief that the stories of young people gathered through ethnographic interviews can generate awareness not only of the complexities, uncertainties and possibilities of young people’s lives but also the ways in which their identities and life chances are shaped by broader structural, institutional and historical forces beyond their control. In this article, we introduce Jacinta, a young person who describes the events and conditions which serve to hinder and/or support her journey in school and beyond. We have used Jacinta’s story from a larger research project, to speak back to the impact the broader neoliberalising agenda is having on young lives with a view to reimagining democratic alternatives in education.

Developing the Methodology for an Applied, Interdisciplinary Research Project: Documenting the Journey Toward Philosophical Clarity

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 450-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loene M. Howes
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽  
Logic Of Inquiry ◽  
Methodological Refinement

Methodologists have urged researchers who use mixed methods to justify their methodological choices and provide greater clarity about the philosophical underpinnings and implications of their approaches. This article outlines the reasoning process undertaken in an endeavor to develop philosophical clarity for an applied, interdisciplinary, mixed methods research project about the communication of scientific evidence in the legal system. I used Greene’s domains of methodology for social inquiry as a framework for addressing reflexive questions about assumptions. Flowing from the domains of values and philosophies, the logic of inquiry was developed before the implications for the integration of findings and reporting of research were outlined. Early engagement in reflexive questioning provided a foundation for methodological refinement throughout the ongoing research journey.

scholarly journals Coworking, a Way to Achieve Sustainable Mobility? Designing an Interdisciplinary Research Project

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 7161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Lejoux ◽  
Aurore Flipo ◽  
Nathalie Ortar ◽  
Nicolas Ovtracht ◽  
Stéphanie Souche-Lecorvec ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽  
Transportation Studies

Sustainable mobility has been one of the central paradigms of research in the field of transport and mobility for several decades. However, the implications of adopting the concept of “sustainable mobility” for the conduct of interdisciplinary research has been little discussed within the relevant research community. Research in the field of transport and mobility has nevertheless been the setting for major debates in recent years on the question of interdisciplinarity, or even transdisciplinarity, with the emergence of mobility studies as opposed to transportation studies. The objective of this paper is to show, empirically, how researchers who are specialised in mobility and transport issues, but who belong to different disciplines (anthropology, computer science, economics, geomatics, sociology and urban planning) have sought to build an interdisciplinary research project—which is currently ongoing—around the links between the development of coworking, which is a new way of organising work, mobility and sustainability. This paper sets out to highlight cross-fertilisation between disciplines, the issues raised, and the difficulties encountered. As such, it provides an account that is as faithful as possible to our experience of conducting interdisciplinary research in the area of sustainable mobility.

Designing Authentic Undergraduate Research Experiences in a Single-Semester Lab Course

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (7) ◽  
pp. 526-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Mennella
Keyword(s):  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Laboratory Course ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Undergraduate Research Experiences ◽  
Green Fluorescent ◽  
Scheduled Time

The importance of a robust undergraduate research experience has been demonstrated time and again. However, too few undergraduates engage in genuine research and leverage this opportunity. Here, I present a laboratory course in cell and molecular biology that is designed to mimic a true research project. Students work through a 10-step experimental design culminating in the construction, expression, and visualization of microtubules fused to green fluorescent protein in baker's yeast. The steps of this project include the isolation of the tubulin gene from yeast genomic DNA, the cloning of that gene into an expression vector, the amplification of this plasmid in E. coli, and the expression of fluorescent tubulin in yeast. Controls and validation steps are embedded throughout the project, as they would be in a genuine research project. This laboratory course more closely resembles a one-semester undergraduate research experience than a typical lab course. However, because this course reaches a much larger number of students compared with undergraduate research opportunities, it provides students with a valuable research experience that remains confined to the scheduled time block of a typical lab course. In this way, many of the benefits of research are experienced by a large number of undergraduates.

Relational Dialectics in Community-Rooted Research and Partnerships

Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Joy L. Hart ◽  
Lindsey A. Wood ◽  
Jack Pfeiffer ◽  
Delana Gilkey ◽  
Austin Zachary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Relational Dialectics ◽  
Dialectical Tensions ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project

Improving health equity as well as overall community health rests in large part on partnerships, especially those between researchers and community members and groups. Employing the theory of relational dialectics, we analyze relationships in an interdisciplinary research project examining how community health is influenced by increases in neighborhood greening. Relational dialectics posits that opposing tensions, such as desires not only to be connected but also to remain independent, shape relationships and are evidenced and negotiated through communication. We provide examples of dialectical tensions in a community-rooted research project and lessons that we have learned from this work.

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