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Supporting community: What should Black women's research look like in times of adversity?

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This event is aimed at research students and staff, in the Humanities and Social Sciences; All those interested in social justice research in education.

Programme:

Programme:

 

1.00:   Welcome and introductions, Facilitator: Carmelita Kadeena-Whyte,

 

Welcome address: Professor Karen Wells, Director, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research

 

An ethic of care in the research process: Carmelita Kadeena Whyte

 

1.15: Background/Context: Choosing Black feminist research frameworks: Using dialogue to assess knowledge claims

Dr Jan Etienne, Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London

 

1.30: TALK 1: ‘So, it go’: Grief and bereavement in Caribbean communities. 

Debi Roberts, PhD student in the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

 

1.45: Questions and discussion

 

2.00: Keynote address: Dr Tanja Burkhard

A Black feminist autoethnography of teaching for liberation after the summer of racial reckoning

Dr Tanja Burkhard, Assistant Professor of Qualitative Methodology, Georgia State University, USA

 

2.30: Questions and Discussion

 

3.00:  TALK 2: ‘Can you see me - do you hear us? Refugees and Motherhood in the UK.’ 

Nandita Sirker, PhD student in the School of Social Sciences

 

3.15:  Questions and discussion

 

3.30:  TALK 3:  Doing Qualitative Research ‘For’ Community – exploring ‘personal accountability’ and ‘lived experience’.

 

3.45: Questions to panel/Discussion

 

4.15: Way forward

 

4.30: CLOSE

 

References:

Race, justice, and Activism in Literacy Instruction (2022) (Tanja Burkhard) (Ed)

Communities of Activism – Politics of representation (2020) (Jan Etienne) (Ed)

 

please note this event will be recorded.

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Speakers
  • Debi Roberts -

    PhD student in the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)

  • Dr Tanja Burkhard -

    Qualitative Methodology, Georgia State University, USA

  • Jan Etienne -

    Dr Jan Etienne

    Chair: Womanism, Activism, Higher Education Research Network

    Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

    Birkbeck, University of London

    32 Tavistock Square,

    London WC1H 9EZ

    Email: j.etienne@bbk.ac.uk

  • Nandita Sirker, -

    PhD student in the Department of Geography, Faculty of Humanities, and Social Sciences