Dear all,
The Call for Papers for the session 'The outcomes of Collaboration: Co-producing Museum Geographies' has been extended till midday Thursday 20th February.
Session title: The outcomes of Collaboration: Co-producing Museum Geographies
Sponsored by the Historical Geography Research Group (HGRG)
“The ethos of the collaborative studentship – its commitment to a partnership model, its openness to the possibilities of research engaging beyond the academy, its acknowledgment of the variety of career paths open to postgraduate researchers – is now being extended into research studentship provision more generally.”
Felix Driver (2013, 26)
Drawing inspiration from two sessions from last year’s RGS Annual Conference of 2013, the proposed session seeks to further develop the ideas, outcomes and variety of ways in which collaborations can enhance and strengthen the relationship between geography and the wider cultural non-HEI world through the joint production of knowledge and research. “Whilst interdisciplinarity has a long tradition in historical geography, the Arts and Humanities Council (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) scheme, and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering (CASE) programme, have provided new impetus for collaborative working” (Craggs, Geoghegan, Keighren, 2013) alongside the new Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme where non-HEI’s can apply for block applications of studentships. (Also see Geoghegan, 2010; Demeritt, 2005; Demeritt & Lees, 2005; Driver 2010). This has also been further reflected in recent publications such as the ‘historical geography at large’ feature within the Journal of Historical Geography (2010) and the HGRG Monograph on ‘Collaborative Geographies’ (2013). This session wishes to encapsulate some of the points raised in the monograph and other references.
Building upon a point of discussion raised at last year’s roundtable discussion, this year’s proposed session would showcase the experiences of four students enrolled in the first cohort of the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships Scheme. This will set a platform for the panel session which will consider the initial impacts of this scheme on collaborative research. In particular, this wishes to address whether such collaborative projects are increasingly prioritising the public-facing nature of research.
With a selection of speakers connected with the CDP scheme including a keynote talk, Postgraduate presentations and discussion from both museum professionals and academics this session hopes to share the future possibilities of these new and emerging areas of knowledge co-production giving a louder voice to those active in the CDP schemes from the non-HEI perspective.
Abstracts:
I welcome papers from any researcher engaged in an AHRC funded CDA project as part of one of the many new CDP schemes (doctoral projects beginning Oct 2013).
Abstracts of no more than 250 words (max) should be sent to James Fenner ([log in to unmask]) by midday on Thursday 20th February 2014 at the very latest.
Please include the following information:
• Name
• Institutional Affiliation
• Contact Email
• Title of Proposed Paper
• Abstract
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