PD25-12 Empowering and Maintaining Liberatory Research Teams, Labs, and Collectives

Session Type: Professional Development Course

Abstract

This course provides new and experienced scholars with an opportunity to be in community with fellow research team, lab, collective, and collaborative facilitators and leaders while learning about liberatory and emancipatory frameworks to sustain their work. Attendees will engage critical, community-based participatory action research theory to reexamine their axiological and epistemological perspectives and reimagine their practices and processes for recruiting and caring for members, running meetings, and communicating about their research. Through hands-on activities, dialogic exercises, and reflexive time, attendees will leave with co-constructed resources designed to elevate the liberatory impact of their work. The objectives of this course include the following:

-Expand attendees’ critical consciousness through dialogue about liberatory frameworks within community-based participatory action research;
-Equip attendees with the knowledge, skills, and vocabulary needed to carry out liberatory and emancipatory practices in research team work;
-Provide attendees with a community of practice to support their future research team endeavors. There is an additional course fee: Member: $90/Non-member: $115

Whether early career scholars who desire to start a research team or seasoned researchers who have led teams for years, this course is for all who are interested in renewing their research team’s work and for those who seek to cultivate environments that are equitable, just, emancipatory, and liberatory (i.e., actively address and resist oppression in all of its forms within and beyond the context of postsecondary education). Attendees will receive a list of pre-course readings and reflective prompts to complete before the course. Attendees do not need any additional supplies, materials, or software to engage with the course.

Sub Unit

• Professional Development and Training Committee

Director

• Robin Phelps-Ward, Ball State University

Instructors

• Taryrn T.C. Brown, University of Florida

• Amanda O. Latz, Ball State University

• Roshaunda L. Breeden, North Carolina State University

• Rachel Wagner, Clemson University

• Robin Phelps-Ward, Ball State University