Decolonising PhD Supervision and Research

Event focus

Funded by UCL Grand Challenges of Cultural Understanding, please join us for a participatory workshop that delves into the evolving landscape of decolonising research supervision and methodologies. Ongoing scholarly conversations are shaping the theoretical foundations and practical applications of decolonisation in research. This workshop offers actionable and tangible ways to integrate decolonial learning and unlearning into our research practices. Engage with critical questions of positionality, reflexivity, reciprocity, situated ethics, respect for self-determination, and 'other' ways of knowing, while embodying a transformative praxis. In our current historical moment, where genocidal, ecocidal, and epistemicidal processes are converging at an unprecedented speed, decolonising approaches are not just a 'nice thing to do' but a moral imperative. We invite all research supervisors to join this horizontal dialogue to create just research.

This workshop will provide a space for:

• Interrogating our own ideas about research and how these may contribute to our views on supervision practice.
• Identifying key moments in doctoral supervision that (re)produce hierarchies of knowledge and practice.
• Exploring ways to question, interrupt and unlearn supervision practices.
• Sharing examples of critical supervision praxis.

Logistics

Date: Thursday 18 July 2024

Timings: 10.00 - 17.00 BST

Location: Room 828, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way

Open to all UCL staff and those who have academic supervision responsibilities. 

If you have any questions about the event, please contact the organisers: Dr Emma Jones (Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment), Dr Leda Kamenopoulou (Psychology and Human Development), Dr Laila Kadiwal (Education, Practice and Society)