Project Lead: Ulrike Luehe, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Project description
This project is concerned with how we raise students’ awareness of the ethical implications of research, beyond the currently available standard tools of institutional review boards, consent, and positionality statements. This requires them to understand the ways academic research is complicit in and entangled with colonial hierarchies and practices of knowledge production. The project seems to understand better how we can effectively teach students these difficult topics, which often require a high degree of self-reflection, and how to enable them to move from understanding these issues towards applying them in their own research practice.
Research questions
- What learning activities (and thus underlying pedagogical approaches) help learners develop an understanding of the colonial entanglements of research and how?
- To what extend do students integrate this understanding into their own approach to research and how?
- How does engagement with the colonial entanglement of research shape students’ engagement with contemporary issues of diversity, equity and inclusion?