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Keynote, Prof Rachel Pain (Creating Publics Project) LECTURE IS NOW POSTPONED DUE TO ILL HEALTH
Rachel Pain
Wednesday, 16 May 2012, 14:00 - 16:00
The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
Location: Michael Young Building, Meeting Rooms 1 & 2
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2nd Creating Publics keynote lecture event – 16 May 2012 (14.00-16.00)
The Creating Publics Project was launched in March 2012 with the aim of innovating new ways of engaging publics in the on-going processes of social science research and public life. This project emerges out of the recognition that publics are entities that must be summoned, mediated, assembled and performed; entities that to develop and be sustained require resources, infrastructure and platforms; and, entities that are always are in a process of becoming. Acknowledging that opportunities to perform publicly are both increasingly diverse as well as more and more unevenly available, we investigate the drive for publicly engaging social science research by exploring what is at stake in different contexts and experimenting with new approaches to practice.
To broaden the debate about what is at stake in the move towards publicly engaging research - whether this comes 'top-down' from funders, or 'bottom-up' from NGO activists, or publicly-engaged social science scholars - the Creating Publics project is convening a series of keynote lecture events. For the 2nd Creating Publics keynote lecture we are delighted to be able to welcome Rachel Pain, who is Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Durham and co-directs the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action. Professor Pain’s agenda-setting research engages with topics including the theory and practice of participation, action research and the contemporary impact agenda.
Programme:
14:00 Welcome and introduction: Prof. Jef Huysmans and Dr. Nick Mahony, Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance
14.10 Keynote lecture: Professor Rachel Pain (University of Durham) “Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together?”
14.10 Keynote lecture: Professor Rachel Pain (University of Durham) “Impacting publics: striking a blow or walking together?”
“The University is just one site where the idea of public good is under threat from marketisation and shallow audit rather than deep accountability. My starting point is alignment between Universities and a range of wider publics and organisations in the context of recession and austerity. Reflecting on different responses to the impact agenda, I suggest that the particular form of impact being measured is reproducing longer-standing power/knowledge hierarchies. I consider some alternative framings and practices of impact (with) publics.”
15.10 Response: Dr. Clive Barnett (CCIG, The Open University) and Helen Arfvidsson (PhD researcher, CCIG, The Open University)
15.00 Q & A and collective discussion.
15:30 Drinks reception.
If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to join us in person at the Open University in Milton Keynes or get involved via the live webcast:
For further information about this lecture series, contact Nick Mahony (n.mahony@open.ac.uk) or see the Creating Publics blog (http://creatingpublics.wordpress.com/).
Creating Publics keynote lecture 3, with Professor John Holmwood, (University of Nottingham) will take place on 28 June 2012.
Registration
To register to attend in person, please email socsci-ccig-events@open.ac.uk
Contact Sarah Batt, Research Secretary a.s.c.batt@open.ac.uk if you have any queries.
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