Research Cafe: Research methodologies and research well-being

The Research Café is a friendly, seminar-like event where you can hear a few speakers share research, innovative ideas, methods and concepts, and then have plenty of time for questions and discussion.The themes of this Cafe are research methodologies and research well-being.

Our Research Cafe presenters:

Dr Hazel Christie on: Interviewing distressed individuals and households

The threat of losing a home is one of the most heartbreaking experiences anyone can encounter.  In this talk I revisit the process of interviewing households with mortgage arrears who were in danger  of losing their homes,  I consider the emotionally gruelling nature of such interviews both for the respondents and for me.

Dr Hazel Christie is a qualitative researcher, and also Head of Continuing Professional Development Framework for Learning and Teaching at the Institute for Academic Development

Onyebuchi Enechukwu on: Participatory Research and Impact

Participatory research and impact would review reasons for research and methodology. It would highlight participatory research as a sustainable practice, using a case study of “Improving the Cancer Journey” project in East London.

Onyebuchi Enechukwu is a Health Data Research UK Alumnus and Mastercard Foundation Scholarship Alumnus

Dr Nicki Frith on: Principles of Participation and Cognitive Justice in Reparations Action Research

Based on work that I have been doing for the past ten years with reparations scholars and activists, I will introduce some of the underlying principles that have guided our collaborations and practices, and which seek to address the power imbalances between scholars and activists. I will look, in particularly, at the work of the International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR), which was co-founded in 2017 by Joyce Hope Scott (Boston University), Esther Xosei and Kofi Mawuli Klu (from the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe, PARCOE) and Nicola Frith (UoE). I will then consider how the INOSAAR’s approach to repair has informed the methods we have used in the Decolonised Transformations programme that is investigating the University of Edinburgh’s history and legacies of enslavement, colonialism and the development of racial thought.

Dr Nicola (Nicki) Frith is a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, co-founder of the International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR) and Co-Chair of the Research and Engagement Working Group that is investigating the University of Edinburgh’s history and legacies of enslavement, colonialism and the development of racial thought.