Research as Performance - WPPN ECR Workshop
What roles do we take on while conducting research? What scripts do we enact when conducting interviews and fieldwork? How has Covid-19 changed our data collection practices? Can the interface between Zoom screens be stages? As a researcher, are you the actor, the director, the audience, or a bit of everything?
What happens when we try to reimagine our own research, the methods we use, and the frameworks we narrativise ourselves as researchers in, through the lenses of performance and performativity?
Join us for the WPPN ECR Workshops of 2022-23, a series of horizontal and interactive roundtables and workshops, where we discuss different aspects of research as performance. Fill out the registration form hereLink opens in a new window to sign up!
Who can join: Doctoral and Early Career Researchers. Open to all departments and different universities (options to join the workshop online). You do not need to bring a paper to the workshop. We hope to be able to bring the output produced from these workshops together into a collaborative publication.
Workshop 1:
What: Introduction and Fieldwork as Performance
When: Friday, November 11, 2022 (11.11.2022) 14:00-17:00 BST
Where: In Hybrid Mode: Room: Wolfson Room 1, Wolfson Research Exchange, (University Library Floor 3) on the University of Warwick campus, but also on MS Teams.
The conversations will introduce the idea of understanding our experiences as researchers as ‘performance’. We will have tasks and cues to conceptualise how we take on ‘roles’ and ‘personalities’ when doing fieldwork, ethnography, online research, conducting interviews and so on. This roundtable of doctoral researchers will discuss ethnography as performance, interviews as a method, fieldwork as performance, and how fieldwork during Covid-19 has shaped and changed these performances. The panel will bring in perspectives from different disciplines within the University of Warwick as well as other universities across the globe.
Snacks and drinks will be provided.
Workshop 2
What: Social Media Research and Performance – ‘Lurking’, Activism and Researcher Identity
When: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 (11.11.2022) 14:00-15:30 BST
Where: In Hybrid Mode: Room: Wolfson Room 1, Wolfson Research Exchange, (University Library Floor 3) on the University of Warwick campus, but also on MS Teams.
This roundtable will bring together, across different universities and disciplines, some academics that use social media actively to disseminate their research, and a few doctoral researchers who use social media as a source of data collection. They will discuss the ‘roles’ and identity creation and navigation required for both, and the intersections and divergences in methods. This will be followed by a workshop activity around social media identity creations and performance, which will involve all those attending.
Snacks and drinks will be provided.
Have questions? write to us at Mouli.Banerjee@warwick.ac.uk with your queries.