Translating close-up research into action
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In this seminar, Translating Close-Up Research Into Action: A Critical Reflection, Emeritus Professor Sue Clegg will explore some of the contradictions and tension involved in translating research into action.
Professor Clegg will argue that simple dissemination models do not work. One of the strengths of close-up qualitative research, with its emphasis on depth and understanding, is that it can identify why things are as they are and by extension when we identify wrongs seek to challenge them.
Professor Clegg will suggest, however, that making a difference is fraught with contradictions and that the translation from research to action is far from straight forward.
She will illustrate these tensions by reflecting on experiences of conducting projects for the UK Higher Education Academy (including those involving Jacqueline Stevenson and Penny Jane Burke). At the same time as exploring the slippages of translation and loss of criticality, however, Professor Clegg wants to defend notion of praxis as theoretically informed change for critical social purposes.
This involves a view of making a difference and research that moves beyond thinking of research as a discrete act and invokes the significance of corporate agency and the possibilities of acting collectively.
Sue Clegg is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Research at Leeds Beckett University. She was previously Head of the Centre for Research into Higher Education and Director of Research Students at Leeds Metropolitan University.
View Professor Clegg's full biography.
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