17th December 2020, 14:00-16:00
Speakers: Jassi Sandhar, Betzabe Torres Olave, Carolina Valladares Celis, Professor Leon Tikly, Professor Madhu Krishnan
Institutionalised epistemic injustices conflict with the aspiration of decolonising research. Institutional ethical guidance and procedures are frequently inattentive to these injustices and the experiences of communities marginalised, violated or exploited by colonialism and its legacy. Such communities have their own ethical codes, which may be explicit or tacit, formally agreed or contested, communicated in writing, verbally or non-verbally. Social research therefore involves navigating between these contradictory domains. The ethical dilemmas that arise relate directly to the substantive concerns of the research and identities of researchers.
The third seminar in the SWDTP’s Decolonising Research series will focus on the ethical dilemmas and framing of ethics within two forms of research. The first is doctoral research, where a sole researcher moves between the university and research ‘field’. The second is collaborative research conducted, where knowledge is co-produced by teams of researchers based in the Global North and Global South.