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, |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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, |
19/7/2022 |
1-2pm |
Talk | Recording available here |
More than Words Together: Representing and Presenting |
21/7/2022 |
12-2pm |
Workshop | |
How a predominantly white faculty can empower |
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 |