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The Labour of Thought: Reflections on interdisciplinarity in practice
No full textIn this reflective article we explore interdisciplinarity in practice. We begin from the position that interdisciplinary work provides great potential and acknowledge that it has become increasingly visible in discussions on the role that research can play to answer complex questions. By definition, interdisciplinarity transcends academic silos and enriches knowledge by integrating frameworks, methods and approaches across diverse disciplines. However, as our reflections identify, interdisciplinary can be a complicated, complex endeavour that requires careful thought. For instance, it is a non-trivial endeavour to find a common language, build coherent teams or gain a shared understanding of research problems - all of which is required for truly interdisciplinary work. It is important, therefore, to understand the labour of thought involved in conducting interdisciplinary work and achieving effective interdisciplinary collaboration. This article brings together the reflections of six early career researchers from a diverse range of disciplines. In this article we explore both the theoretical challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary research, as well as the practical application of this work. The impetus for this work comes from a British Academy Early Career Researcher Network event in September 2024 where we discussed the relevance of interdisciplinary research to ECRs.
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Warwick PATHWAY Programme: A positive action programme to facilitate Black researchers’ careers
No full textUnderrepresentation of Black researchers and academics is one of the most pressing issues in the UK Higher Education sector. The University of Warwick launched the Warwick PATHWAY Programme in November 2023 to address this issue. The programme supports aspiring Black researchers in all disciplines from undergraduate to postdoctoral level to become independent researchers in universities and other organisations. We aim to create ‘a career pipeline that does not leak’ and a multi-level community of aspiring Black researchers, presenting a visible career pathway and support network.
Funding Acknowledgement
The authors wish to acknowledge the University of Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study, Doctoral College and Student Opportunity teams for their collaboration and support in funding and implementing this programme. The programme is also supported by Research England\u27s Enhancing Research Culture Fund and the British Geological Survey (BGS)
Presence of Absence: Black Children and Erased Histories of Abuse in Ireland’s Institutional Record
Get PDFThis article examines the erasure of Black children from public discourse on 20th-century Irish institutional abuse, situating their exclusion within a racial logic that marked them as morally and biologically other. It interrogates the epistemic and testimonial injustices embedded within Ireland’s historical and contemporary treatment of Black children, with particular focus on the 2021 Mother and Baby Homes Commission. It critiques the reliance on institutional records over survivor testimonies, revealing how these children’s racialisation intersected with gender and class to marginalise them within both care institutions and national memory. By employing an intersectional and feminist framework, it explores the implications of these omissions for transitional justice and human rights accountability, calling for the inclusion of racialised narratives in Ireland’s reckoning with its institutional past. This study advances a critical understanding of racial injustice within Ireland’s care system, advocating for reparatory justice and the centring of Black survivors’ voices in processes of historical redress and collective memory formation
KEEPING THE WHEEL TURNING: AN ONGOING CRITICAL REFLECTION ON THE SUMMER PRE-SESSIONAL
Get PDFThe Summer Pre-sessional (SPS) can be a difficult place to operate. Intensive working environments; tight turnarounds; unpaid overtime - these realities are revealed in the casual language of recovery that the EAP community instinctively reaches for when describing our signature summer programmes and which provided the initial inspiration for a talk at the 2023 BALEAP Conference: a critical reflection on the SPS. This paper offers an extended and ongoing reflection, incorporating the essential content of that original paper as well as the wider conference tone where uncertainty over the longer-term health of the SPS was evident. It is hoped that, with reflective distance and modest adjustments, some sense of a more hopeful future for the Pre-sessional may emerge, one that recentres community and exercises some quiet resistance to prevailing metrics of success
CREATIVE TRIOETHNOGRAPHY AS A SITE OF RESISTANCE AND GROWTH: EXPLORING THE POWER OF RHIZOMATIC ANALYSIS AND BLACKOUT POETRY IN COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
Get PDFIn this reflective exploration, we navigate trioethnographic methodology employed to investigate our evolving professional identities and the concept of social justice in English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Our journey, sparked by collaborative writing of a book chapter, emphasized creativity, dialogue, and an ethic of care, resonating deeply with our roles within the EAP for Social Justice Special Interest Group (SIG).
We explore the intersections of reflection, trioethnography, and rhizomatic analysis, revealing how these approaches facilitated a profound understanding of our experiences and identities. Blackout poetry emerged as a transformative tool, allowing for alternative interpretations and deeper engagement with our data. Our methodology challenged conventional academic norms, embracing non-linear, interdisciplinary approaches that celebrate multiplicity and inclusivity.
Through our research, we address the tensions between traditional academic writing and innovative, transformative narrative styles. The reflective process underscored the significance of trust, vulnerability, and ethical care in collaborative research. Ultimately, our work culminates in a manifesto advocating for creative knowledge-making and collaboration in EAP, urging EAP practitioners and other educators to embrace unconventional narratives and foster inclusive, empathetic learning environments
The Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Food: An Introduction to the Special Section
No full textThe undergraduate degree Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) has attracted a stereotype of developing future political and financial elites with little regard to the subject material covered in the programme. This clashes with student expectations and university messaging on PPE, which, especially at the University of Warwick, highlight the importance of interdisciplinary perspectives for addressing complex global challenges. This introduction to this special section argues that it is imperative to centre students’ voices in defining PPE, and, to this end, showcases a co-creation process aimed at developing an interdisciplinary module. The resulting module on the PPE of food thereby speaks to how students understand their PPE: as a programme that breaks with interdisciplinary silos to answer complex questions relevant to the world we live in
Feeling, acting and connecting rivers: the experience of the San Pedro River Rescue Collective in Ecuador
Get PDFThe San Pedro River Rescue Collective was born in 2021 as a citizen group whose goal is to restore the San Pedro River and its banks, which flow from the Illiniza volcano through Quito and its valleys towards the Pacific Ocean. One of the main dreams of its members is to bathe again in the river, as the past generation of their fathers and mothers did thirty years ago. The San Pedro River is facing multiple sources of contamination, from intensive cattle production at its watershed to wastewater and trash discharges in the city of Quito and Los Chillos valley, a densely populated area. From a political ecology perspective, this article examines the river imaginaries, knowledge co-creation and justice mobilized by the San Pedro River Rescue Collective as a river movement. The analysis is based on feminist epistemologies and ecologies of care mobilizing qualitative data gathered between January to April 2025. We explore how the San Pedro River Rescue Collective not only strives to revitalize a river, but to transform the relationship between society and nature at the very heart of the city. As a main result of this study, we conclude on the power of feelings and emotions to enact citizen action for the protection of urban rivers
What is called "Orientalism"?
Get PDFThis paper undertakes a comparative and complimentary reading of Edward Said’s analysis of Orientalism and the philosophical problem of orientation in Kant, especially Kant’s discussion of this in “What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking?”. Although Said has been seen by some critics as a thinker of radical alterity, this paper will contest this claim and show that he is best thought of as defending auto-determination and self-positing. Furthermore, it analyzes the important defense of knowledge that accompanies Said’s critique of oriental sciences. This leads Said to propose an alternate logic of relation as opposed to the logic of representation that structures Orientalism, in this manner shifting the issue of knowledge to what he calls “acknowledgement”. Therefore, Said opens up the concept of Orientalism to a transcendental philosophical questioning whose interests would exceed mere positivist critique. This latter tendency has led to a restrained reception of Said’s work whereby his analyses have been studied for their empirical interest focusing on his objections to orientalist practices. This paper argues that such a reading, apart from being reductive, mischaracterizes the project undertaken by Said. The objective is not only to read Said’s thought through its relation to Kantianism but also to reflect Said’s understanding of Orientalism onto Kant and therefore to transform the philosophical reception of the concept of orientation in general. In this way, beyond a simple application of philosophy on issues relation to the “global south”, Said is presented as one of the great figures of the Internationalization of philosophy
About Life: One Dialogue and Three Essays
No full textThis article presents one dialogue and three essays about life. The first section solves an antinomy about the meaning of life , based on the type/token distinction. The second section proposes another solution to the antinomy, referring to Deleuze\u27s notion of repetition. The third section address altruism by referring to Derrida\u27s notion of deconstruction. The final section proposes a naturalistic solution to Meillassoux\u27s spectral dilemma