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Partnerships, research collaborations, impact agendas and evidence-based decision making are becoming new mantras for research and practice. While practitioner-researcher collaborations do not happen enough, when they do happen, they tend to be a spectacle rather than a process of decolonising research.
At this DIIS seminar, Cathrine Brun, Director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Oxford Brookes University, reflects on recent debates on research collaborations with practitioners. Based on her long-term research on forced migration and the ethics and politics of humanitarianism, Brun discusses two models of research-practitioner collaborations: a real time research collaboration in Sri Lanka between 2005 and 2008 following the Indian Ocean Tsunami and an ongoing project with two organisations in Lebanon on youth in the context of conflict and displacement. She identifies challenges and opportunities of collaboration, contributions to decolonise research, knowledge production, and the potential impacts for both researchers and practitioners. Signe Yde-Andersen, Head of International Programmes, Danish Red Cross, will then discuss Brun’s reflections from an organizational perspective.
The seminar is funded by and organized together with the ‘Interventions Research Network on Humanitarian Politics and Culture’ - a collaboration between DIIS, CBS and KU.
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