Research On and Into practice 2023

Research On and Into practice

This half-day PhD workshop is for doctoral fellows doing research in which understanding “practices” in various contexts is central. Whether doing research on practice or to contribute to practice, researchers often face the need to go beyond traditional methodologies, roles, and forms of knowledge production. This workshop is designed to offer ideas, inspiration, and room for discussion and reflection on ways to do this.

Involving participants actively to understand practices better is often required to complement traditional methods for collecting empirical material such as immersive field observation and interviews. For example, the age of young participants may speak for creating playful and game-based methods to engage them in research collaboration. Moreover, the vulnerability of some participants may call for carefully developing material means of expression and artifacts as more sensitive means for acquiring understanding of their situation and well-being. Finally, the complexity and relational nature of practices embedded in a research context may easily defy being captured on video recordings or by other time-based, processual instruments in the ethnographer’s toolbox. Instead, inventive design methods such as design games, probes, and disruptions have proven useful for involving multiple actors in collectively producing knowledge of the social hierarchies and organisational issues influencing situated practices.

The aim of this workshop is to provide doctoral students with firm knowledge and inspiration of how methods from practice-based design research can enrich traditional methodologies.

To participate, PhD students are required, in advance, to write a one-page presentation of their project that most importantly includes what challenges, questions or curiosities, stemming from their own work, that they want to bring to and explore in the workshop.

In the workshop Eva Knutz and Thomas Markussen will draw upon various design research projects addressing how methodologies within social and participatory design can inspire the co-production of knowledge between researcher and participant.

Background readings will provided before the workshop, after registration.
For more information, contact: Cindie Maagaard, cindiem@sdu.dk

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Our events are open free of charge to PhD students from our own program, and from all other programs provided they also offer tuition free of charge to our students. ’Soon-to-be’ Phd students may also attend with permission from the event instructors and the Program Director, whom you should first contact if this applies to you (Cindie Aaen Maagaard at cindiem@sdu.dk). We are also very happy if members of staff wish to attend, particularly PhD supervisors, and will accommodate them in lieu of space. We ask all who attend an event to register. You’ll find the online registration form on the same page as the event description.
http://www.sdu.dk/Forskning/PhD/Phd_skoler/Phd_humaniora/alle_kurser#IGS