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Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 1-3 September 2010. Dissemination in the age of 'impact': implications for the politics of research in the global south. Session organised by Paula Meth and Glyn Williams, University of Sheffield (Sponsored by Developing Areas Research Group). Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 12 February, 2010 The dissemination of research findings has always raised thorny issues of representation, power, and ethics. Dissemination is a performance which can stir emotions, and unsettle and reshape social relations between presenters and their audiences. It can also challenge researchers' interpretations of findings, opening them up to critical reappraisal and creative input. For geographers working across the 'global South' the layers of complexity are potentially deeper, as the power relations between disseminator and audience are often shaped by differences in language, culture, place, nationality, race, education, or class. Development geographers have always struggled with questions of relevance and applicability of their research but recent institutional requirements within British higher education for researchers to prove 'impact' potentially enflame this already complex engagement, and could shift the relations of power between funders, researchers, participants and others in indeterminate ways. We encourage the submission of abstracts that engage with these concerns, in particular; . Critical reflections on researchers' own experiences of dissemination . The emerging practices of impact auditing and their implications for methodologies of research and/or dissemination. . Theoretically informed considerations of the politics of dissemination in relation to the 'impact' agenda. If you are interested in presenting a paper in this session please submit an abstract of 250 words to the session organisers: Paula Meth ([log in to unmask]) and Glyn Williams ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 12 February. Dr Paula Meth Department of Town and Regional Planning University of Sheffield S10 2TN ph: 0114 2226912