Using Research Knowledge: Immigrant South Asian Female Graduate Students as Knowledge Mobilization Agents

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 4
  In Roundtable Session: The Agency of Historically Marginalized Subjects

Abstract

As an under-researched intersectional group, immigrant South Asian graduate students were interviewed to explore their knowledge mobilization experiences. Using the research generation and utilization model by Gough, Tripney, Kenny and Buk-Berge (2011) and intersectionality theory by Shields (2008), the data from the in-depth interview showed that the immigrant graduate students from four South Asian countries created and co-created knowledge from their research. Their research was mainly based on the challenges they faced in their life. They shared, exchanged and transferred their research knowledge within their educational and professional communities. Along with their researcher roles, they performed as the organizational stakeholders to mobilize their research knowledge as knowledge mobilization agents within their communities.

Author

• Fatema Rehana Hossain, University of Toronto