scholarly journals Succeeding with interactive research: How to manage research with and about society

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Hagedorn Krogh ◽  
Morten Velsing Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Leadership ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Governance Network ◽  
Scientific Standards ◽  
Multiple Actors ◽  
Tools And Methods

Increasingly, social science research is carried out in collaboration with partners outside universities, yet research methodology is lacking on how to manoeuvre in a terrain where multiple actors set expectations for research. This article conceptualizes interactive research as research with and about society, and provides a set of systematic reflections on how to manage opposing pressures, tensions and dilemmas in interactive research projects. We formulate and address three major interactive research management tasks: ensuring continual commitment from external stakeholders, maintaining the capacity for critique and ensuring that scientific standards are met. Based on our own experience and theories of interactive governance, network management and collaborative leadership, as well as on existing methodological literature, we provide guidance and suggest concrete tools and methods for performing the tasks in order to avoid the pitfalls and harvest the gains of interactive research.

scholarly journals Child-Led Research: Questioning Knowledge

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricio Cuevas-Parra ◽  
E. Kay M. Tisdall
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Developmental Models ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Generational Difference

Over the last twenty years, childhood studies has challenged the schooled and developmental models of childhood. The children’s rights agenda has combined with academic childhood studies, to emphasise that children are and can be social actors and to seek ways to recognise and support their participation rights. For those who promote the participation of children and young people, there is considerable enthusiasm to involve them in all research stages—from research planning, fieldwork, and analysis to dissemination, leading to growth in what is often called ‘child-led research’. This article draws upon an empirical study of ‘child-led research’ projects, undertaken in Bangladesh, Jordan and Lebanon, for a critical examination of the meanings and implications of ‘child-led research’. In particular, this paper explores what counts as knowledge in social science research within contexts of generational difference and power.

Rebraiding Photovoice: Methodological Métissage at the Cultural Interface

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Standpoint Theory ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
Cultural Interface

Photovoice, the most prevalent participatory visual research methodology utilised within social science research, has begun making its way into Indigenous contexts in light of its critical and pedagogical potential. However, this potential is not always actualised as the assumptions that undergird photovoice are often the same ones that (re)produce inequalities. Working from the notion that methodologies are the space in between theory, methods, and ethics, this manuscript works with/in the cultural interface between the Western theories that shape photovoice (i.e., standpoint theory, praxis) and Indigenous analogues (i.e., Nakata's [2007a, 2007b] Indigenous standpoint theory, Grande's [2004, 2008] Red pedagogy) in order to differentially (re)braid photovoice. Following a thumbnail description of these four bodies of scholarship, a concept key to photovoice (i.e., voice) is differentially configured with, in, and for the cultural interface to provide research considerations for various stages of participatory visual research projects (i.e., fieldwork, analysis, dissemination).

scholarly journals Can the Other be Heard? Response to Commentaries on ‘Omphile and his Soccer Ball’

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Finex Ndhlovu
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Critical Points ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Soccer Ball

I welcome the invitation to a right of reply that Multilingual Margins journal has extended to me; and I thank all nine discussants for sharing their thoughts on my paper ‘Omphile and his soccer ball: Colonialism, methodology, translanguaging research’. Eight of the nine discussants (Kathleen Heugh, Alan Carneiro, Manuel Guissemo, Kanavillil Rajagopalan, Zannie Bock, Lynn Mario T. Mendezes de Sousa, Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, and Torun Reite) provided what I consider to be balanced critiques that highlight both the strengths and weaknesses of the paper. One reader, Don Kulick, did not find anything positive about the paper. Instead, he raised numerable objections that are pitched in a somewhat confrontational tone that is radically at odds with the views proffered by all other discussants. For this reason, I decided to organise my response into three short sections. The first is a rejoinder that builds on and engages those critical points raised by the eight discussants who are overall in concert with each other. In the second section I provide a rebuttal of Don Kulick’s review, which I find to be largely dismissive and bereft of any semblance of collegial engagement with the arguments advanced in the paper. I then close with a short paragraph that reiterates my original invitation to engage in dialectical conversations about how best to carry out social science research projects in ways that are consistent with the quite contemporary anti-colonial, anti-foundational and transformative agenda being pushed by decolonial and other like-minded scholars.

Social Science Research at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

1980 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 416-418
Author(s):  
Judith Ayres Daly
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Funding Source ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Advanced Research Projects Agency

The purpose of this paper is to communicate, a la Dawson (1978) and Frey (1980) the what and how of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/Cybernetics Technology Division's (DARPA/CTD) social science research funding. It is hoped that it will make some, who may have asked “What's a DARPA?” while perusing the Table of Contents, aware of another possible funding source and will enhance the relevance to the DARPA mission of proposals received by the Division.

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