Researching Marginalized Groups – An International Symposium in Scotland, UK, October 2015
A unique opportunity to meet, learn from and challenge a panel of international experts in the field of Researching Marginalized Groups. This precedes the launch of an innovative and exciting new edited collection of the same name which focuses on the challenges and complexities of researching marginalized groups.
Wednesday 28th October, 2015
9.30am – 4.30pm
University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, PA1 2BE
The Symposium will feature presentations on research methods, theory, practice and analysis, as well as offering ample opportunity for round table discussions.
The Seminar is for academics, policy makers, practitioners, researchers and research students, plus anyone who is interested in the issues that arise when conducting research with marginalized groups.
Sessions will explore:
Extremism, community and stigma: researching the far-right and radical Islam in their context
The implications of ethnographic deceptions for the ethnographer’s ethics
Positionality, symbolic violence and reflexivity: Researching the educational strategies of marginalized groups
Institutional power: silencing the other in international fieldwork
Dilemmas, deception and ethical decision-making: Insights from a Transatlantic ethnographer
The challenge of researching neo-Nazis struggling to leave the white power movement
‘Revealing too much?’: reflecting on emotions in research with South Asian women
Speakers include:
Professor Ross Deuchar, University of the West of Scotland
Professor Kalwant Bhopal, University of Southampton
Dr Steven Locke, University of Wyoming
Dr Emiliano Grimaldi & Emanueal Spanò, University Federico II, Italy
Dr Tiago Neves, University of Porto
Gavin Bailey, Manchester Metropolitan University
Tina Wilken Christensen, Roskilde University, Denmark
Dr Shaminder Takhar, London South Bank University
Learn more here: http://www.uws.ac.uk/researchingmarginalizedgroups/
