Description

Knowledge is as much about discovery as it is about construction, this workshop invites early-career scholars and students to critically examine the underlying frameworks that shape our understanding of the world. Through an interactive session, we aim to unpack the politics embedded in the processes of knowledge production within interdisciplinary research, to challenge conventional epistemologies and explore alternative methodologies. We will explore questions that touch on conducting qualitative research at a distance (online) and on navigating sensitive contexts and topics. This workshop further seeks to provide a space for participants to critically reflect on their research practices, question existing power dynamics, and imagine new possibilities for generating knowledge, beyond the “qualitative” framework.

We expect you to read the following work before the workshop:

1. On challenges and opportunities of online research in a constantly changing and unstaeble world (its coming out this March) it will be an extension of a popular research brief I co-authored with Andrea Purdekova and Aymar Bisoka in Qualitative research Journal (2021). 

2. Local positionality in North Uganda published by IJQM journal 

3. Recently published article on rejection and respondents positionality in qualitataitve research.