Decolonising Research Festival

n response to the Exeter Decolonising Network, the Doctoral College is undertaking a Decolonising Research project to identify what decolonisation means in the context of research, and specifically postgraduate research at the University of Exeter.

The Decolonising Research Festival took place online in June and July 2022, to kick start our thinking about what decolonisation means within a research context at the University of Exeter. The festival included research talks, workshops, question and answer panels and roundtable discussions on a variety of topica including:

Decolonial research
Decolonial research methods
Power, positionality, and privilege
Decolonising our research ethics processes
Decolonising our research culture
Decolonising postgraduate research
Decolonising supervision
Decolonising Researcher Development
Decolonising the research pipeline

Event Title and Speaker	Date	Time	Event Type	Recording
Decolonising the curriculum: Experiences from South Africa - Dr Chrissie Boughey, Rhodes University	21/6/2022	11.00am-12.00pm	Talk	Recording available here
Participatory and Engaged Research	24/6/2022 1/7/2022 15/7/2022	10.30am-1.30pm	3 part workshop
Decolonising DMU and the PGR experience - Dr. Richard Hall, De Montfort University	24/6/2022	2.30-4pm	Talk and roundtable discussion	Recording available here
Decolonisation and Research: Finding and unsettling your ‘why’ - Dr. Foluke Adebisi, University of Bristol	27/6/2022	2-3pm	Keynote	Recording available here
Decolonising the work of research - Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney	28/6/2022	10-11am	Talk	Recording available here
The importance of the historical perspective in research on educational development - Dr. Joanna Härmä	28/6/2022	1-3pm	Workshop
Culture across borders - Pankhuri Singh, University of Exeter	29/6/2022	11am-12pm	Talk	Recording available here
Decolonising research culture starts with how you say their name - Sawsan Khuri, University of Exeter	29/6/2022	1-3pm	Workshop
Whiteness: Positionality, Allyship, and Doing the Work - Dr. Marquard Smith, University College London	30/6/2022	12-1pm	Talk	Recording available here
Decolonial Participatory Research - Diana Valencia Duarte, University of Exeter	30/6/2022	2-4.30pm	Workshop
Exploring positionality through self-study workshop - Dr Caitlin Kight, University of Exeter	1/7/2022	11am-12.30pm	Workshop
Reflexive Positionality: Researching Refugee Mothers as a Racialised Mother but not as a Refugee - Laura Shobiye, University of Cardiff	1/7/2022	1.30-2.30pm	Talk	Recording available here
The Power Dynamics of Conducting Research for the International Development Sector - Desiree Acholla	4/7/2022	2-4pm	Workshop
Become a Lego Serious Play Facilitator	4/7/2022 5/7/2022 6/7/2022	10-11.30 11-12.30 10-11.30	Workshop
Refusing Extraction, Embracing Loss: Towards An Anticolonial Politics of Absence - Amy Shakespeare and Deborah Ashfield, University of Exeter	5/7/2022	2-3pm	Talk	Recording available here
Incorporating Power Analysis into our Work Spaces - Farah Mahesri	7/7/2022	3-4pm	Workshop
'I am because We are' - reimagining research practices and teaching through decolonisation	8/7/2022	10-11.30am	Workshop
Unlocking the Radical Imagination for Decolonial Futures - Melz Owusu, Free Black University	11/7/2022	10am-12pm	Workshop
Afropean Theology: Utilising Nigerian/British novels & Auto-ethnography in New Testament Studies - Olabisi Obamakin, University of Exeter	12/7/2022	1-2pm	Talk	Recording available here
Decolonial Participatory Research - Diana Valencia Duarte, University of Exeter	14/7/2022	2-4.30pm	Workshop
Self-reflection and (un)learning as decolonial exercises - Lara Fricke and Rebecca Howarth, University of Exeter	18/7/2022	1-2.30pm	Workshop
The Little White Lies: The Cross-Cultural Responses of the Globalisation of The White Jesus in Cinema - Dr Victoria Omotoso, The Queen's Foundation	19/7/2022	10-11am	Talk
Reimagining Undergraduate Research: Student Agency through a Decolonial Lens - Larissa Kennedy, NUS	19/7/2022	11am-12pm	Talk	Recording available here
Decolonising 'National' Heritage: How Indian Museums and Cultural Spaces are Addressing their Colonial Pasts - Shibani Das, University of Exeter	19/7/2022	1-2pm	Talk	Recording available here
More than Words Together: Representing and Presenting Narratives with visual and digital stories as a creative, participatory approach - Laura Shobiye, University of Cardiff	21/7/2022	12-2pm	Workshop
How a predominantly white faculty can empower ethnic minority students - Musarrat Maisha Reza, University of Exeter	28/7/2022	10-11.30am	Talk	Recording available here
What does it mean to do decolonial research? - Dr Salmah Eva-Lina Lawrence, IWDA	28/7/2022	12-1pm	Talk	Recording available here