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| Abstract Title: | Critical Conversations: Addressing the impact of external stresses on research through empathy and care |
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| Abstract Type: | Critical Conversation |
| Abstract: | We propose a session to discuss the need to recognize the interconnectedness of the researcher, the research, and external world at large. Historically academia and science have positioned the researcher as dispassionate, objective, and removed from the day to day situations outside the ivory tower. We now know the importance of honoring people's identities and lived experiences and giving space for often difficult discussions that include, for the sake of this session, the impact complex external events have on an individual. This session creates a space to discuss how researchers can work to support each other in the context of external political and other events such as LGBTQIA+ hostility in Florida, Texas, etc., the consequences of the Dodd case and anti-abortion legislation, and the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel/Palestine. We focus not on political conversations, but rather center the discussion on the personal impact of these events and how we as researchers and collaborators can work together to co-create spaces of support, solidarity and humanity. The messy questions that arise involve identity, position, and power. How do we attend to safety? What does care look like within a collaborative academic/research space? What are researchers' ethical responsibilities to themselves, their collaborators, and their community? How do we attend to feelings of helplessness? This session cannot definitively answer these questions. We can, however, engage in a group critical conversation that centers the importance for empathy and care. |
| Session Time: | Parallel Sessions Cluster 1 |
| Room: | Marina 4 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Scott Franklin Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14618 Phone: 585-475-2536 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Alia Hamdan, she/her, ajhcos -at- rit.edu, Rochester Institute of Technology Brianne Gutmann, San José State University Eleanor Close, Texas State University |
Parallel Session Information | |
| Moderator: | Scott Franklin, he/him, Rochester Institute of Technology Alia Hamdan, she/her, Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Proposed Discussion Questions: | How can we as researchers support each other in the face of external political and other pressures through spaces of solidarity and humanity" |
