9th Discourse, Power, Resistance Conference
The 9th conference in the Discourse, Power, Resistance (DPR) series has moved from Manchester Metropolitan University to its new host in the School of Education and Training at the University of Greenwich, and will be held at the University of Greenwich, London, UK between 30 March and 1 April, 2010. The venue is part of a world heritage site laid out in the late 17th and early 18th Centuries by Sir Christopher Wren and his successors. The conference will use the King William Building and the Stephen Lawrence Building, named in honour of Stephen Lawrence, killed some four miles away from Greenwich by racists in 1993 and now a symbol in the campaign for racial and social justice.
The conference looks at issues of trust and distrust in the academy and beyond – in management, teaching, learning and research and in institutions and communities across cultural, social and racial boundaries.
What happens when trust is lost? The conference asks why this happens, why it matters and what can be done to recover our trust in ourselves, our colleagues, managers, policy-makers, teachers, learners and health care and public services professionals.
The conference also confronts the controversy between qualitative and quantitative research methods, politically fraught and epistemologically contested, threatening to undermine trust in research findings.
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Please note a change in the programme: David Nutt will not now speak at 0915 on Wednesday 31st. Instead he will speak at 1820 on the evening of Tuesday 30th. On Wednesday morning we will return to the issues raised by David Nutt. Heather Piper, Renée DePalma and Laurette Bristol will form a panel and will give brief presentations. This will be followed by group and then plenary discussion. We will look at issues relating to the problems and difficulties associated with research projects of a sensitive nature or which may lead to findings unwelcome to funders and/or managers. We will welcome contributions to this debate from delegates with relevant experiences of researching what are perceived to be difficult or sensitive topics. |
Registration starts at 1100 on Tuesday 30 March at the King William Building of the Greenwich Campus. A buffet lunch will be served in the same building.
If for any reason you have not been able to register in advance, please note that we will not be able to accept payments by Credit or Debit cards at the reception desk; but cheques can be accepted.
There will be guides on hand to give you directions and any help you need. If you have any problems please call Jerome on 07708 107564.
The seven streams of the conference are: