Conference
Discourse Power Resistance 5
“Research as a Subversive Activity”
20 – 22 April 2006
Manchester Metropolitan University , UK
ABSTRACTS
Rana Gulzar Ahmad (AMAL Human Development Network)
High Risk Youth, STIs and HIV/AIDS
Sarah Amsler (Kingston University)
Towards a sociology of hope: critical research as praxis in higher education
Phil Arnold (Stockport Excellence Cluster/Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Creative Evaluation: Stockport Evidence Cluster
Elizabeth Atkinson
(University of Sunderland (UK))
Imagining the homonormative: the place of subversive research in education for social justice
Elizabeth Atkinson (University of Sunderland (UK))
Power, knowledge and control: the politics and ethics of educational research
James Avis (University of Huddersfield)
Post compulsory education - the evacuation of politics:
research as subversion?
Erin Baines (Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia)
The Everyday as Subversive: Amplifying Individual Voices in Conflict-Prone Zones
Charlotte Bates
(Homerton School of Health Studies and University of Cambridge)
Integrating disciplines and methods: Towards transformative research
Christian Blickem ()
Conspiracy and Gossip as a Form of Enquiry
Tony Brown (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
New teacher responsiveness to policy: a psychoanalytic account of learning to love mathematics in a uniform
Tony Brown (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Identity, Narrative and Practitioner Research: A Lacanian perspective
Tony Brown (ESCalate, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK)
Engaging professionally with the unexpected in learning
Elizabeth Burn (University of York
)
“I sat up proud.” Listening to an African Caribbean student reflecting on her resistance to exclusionary practices during teacher training
Joyce Canaan (University of Central England, Birmingham)
Sand in the Machine: Teaching HE Students to Critically Engage with the World
Andrea
Capstick (University of Bradford, UK)
Film as method and metaphor in educational research
David Carless (Leeds Metropolitan University)
One step at a time: Developing alternative understandings of older women’s physical activity through folk songs
Gordon
Carter (Freelance researcher)
Becoming Human
Helen Colley (Manchester Metropolitan University (UK))
Power and Resistance in Manchester – with a little Discourse.
Walking Gallery - 2pm-4pm Friday 21 April
Andy Convery (Manchester Metropolitan University)
The Pedagogy of the Impressed – how teachers become sacrificed on the altar of technological vision
Brian Corbin (Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University)
‘Settling in’? Unsettling experiences in inducting new teachers
John
Danvers (University of Plymouth, UK)
A coincidence of opposites: notes on contradiction in artistic enquiry
Indra Dewan (University of East London)
Postmodernism v essentialism: mixed race women’s perspective on identity
Yota Dimitriadi (Institute of Education, University of Reading)
Whose research is it anyway? Voices of disabled trainee-teachers
Kitrina Douglas (University of Bristol)
Relationships and discovery: Alternative narratives of success among élite women professional golfers
Paul
Duckett (Division of Psychology, School of Health, Psychology and Social Change
Manchester Metropolitan University)
A call for less research and more understanding: Guerrilla tactics of two research insurgents in the Higher Education Sector
Sam Ely ()
Unrealised Projects
Sue Exley (Faculty of Education, University of Plymouth (UK))
The Patchwork Project
Pamela Fisher (University of Sheffield)
The Pursuit of Knowledge and the Politics of Change: some issues relating to subversive “autodidacts” then and now (and when?)
Joan Forbes (School of Education, University of Aberdeen)
(Re-) constructing research selves: subverting the self in research
Nena
Foster (Faculty of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University)
Subverting Medical Ways of Knowing Using Discourse Analysis
Jo Frankham (University of Manchester)
Network Utopias and alternative entanglements for educational research and practice
Musicians from (the Royal Northern College of Music)
DubDubDub as Subversion: A Musical Submission to the ‘Research as a Subversive Activity’ Conference, 2006
Dilly
Fung (University of Exeter)
Ask me no questions
Deborah Golden (Faculty of Education, Haifa University)
Exhibiting Lives: the use of objects, photographs and words in telling life stories
Richard
Goodson (Nottingham Trent University (UK))
How to do a practice-based PhD in writing poetry: a personal perspective
Peter
Gray (University of Stirling)
Please save us, she’s evil, I tell you, evil! Reflections on the subversive aspects of pupil opinion in the context of experimental research
Fiona Greenwood (The University of Salford)
The Saying Hello Project
Una Hanley (Manchester Metropolitan University
)
In the Steps of Ulysses
Anne Harley (Centre for Adult Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Picturing reality: power, ethics and politics in using visual research methods
Kate Hatton (Sheffield University)
When does art or design become conventional? When does research become conventional?
Miles Henderson Smith ()
Painting as Subversive Research
Tat Heung Choi (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Class and Symbolic Control: A Comprehensive View of Cambridge University
Richard Huggins (School of Social Sciences and Law, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.
)
Community Participation, Engagement and Research: An Emerging
Method with Subversive Intent?
Ian Iles (Wales College of Medicine, Biology, Life and Health Studies, Cardiff University)
Walking between worlds: activism and academia
Jeff Instone ()
in the imperfect present : in the future perfect
Jane Jackson (Cornwall College)
All fur coat and no knickers: Researching excellent practice in post-compulsory education and training – practitioner education
Jenny Tennant
Jackson (Leeds School of Contemporary Art and Graphic Design, Leeds Metropolitan University
AHRC Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History, University of Leeds )
Alice Two
Marianne Jørgensen (Department for Studies of Social Change and Culture
Linköping University, Sweden)
Critique – A Viable Subversive Research Strategy?
Rebekka
Kill (Department of Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University)
‘This gratuitous element of Fine art’- an analysis of recent re-visioning strategies in Art and Design Higher Education
Paul Kleiman
(PALATINE - Higher Education Academy
Subject Centre for Dance, Drama and Music
Lancaster University)
THE TRUTH IS (NOT) OUT THERE: the work of the qualitative researcher in an age of uncertainty
Sophia Kosmaoglou (Goldsmiths College, London)
Holding myself up by my shoe-strings
Tara La Rose (Researcher – Social Service Worklife - Canada)
Lessons from the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union Caseload Overload project: creating alternative discourse on efficiency and industrialization in the social service sector
Ines Langemeyer (Freie Universität , Berlin, Germany)
The Dialectical Methodology of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
Rebecca Lawthom (Social Change and Well Being, Research Instititute for Health and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan Univesity)
Participatory approaches in and to research: inclusive and subversive possibilities?
Geoff Lewis (University of Aberdeen)
A Case for the Subversion of Literacy Research
Wessie Ling (London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London)
Oriental designs by Oriental designers? Design processes and representation for fashion designers
Bob Lingard (Moray House School of Education at the University of Edinburgh)
Deparochialising the Study of Education: globalization and the research imagination
Heather Lynch (Stirling University)
Writers Wanted – Constructing a Panoramic Understanding of Identity
Maggie MacLure (Manchester Metropolitan University (UK))
The wonder of method
Anna Magyar (Open University)
Unpicking the ‘institutional practices of mysteries’: dissemination and practitioner research
Sechaba Mahlomaholo (Central University of Technology, Free State – South Africa
)
Research as a subversive activity at the micro to the macro levels: the case of thirteen postgraduate students at the Central University of Technology
Sue Mansfield (University of Dundee, Scotland)
Critically Reflexive Research as Practice and Pedagogy
Sherie McClam (Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood
Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne)
Talking to Foucault: Examining Marginalization and Exclusion in Academic Science
Maya Miskovic (National-Louis University, National College of Education, USA)
Socio-Cultural Context of Roma (Gypsy) Education in Europe: Theory, Methodology and Activism
Ken Montgomery (Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada)
Banal racism: White supremacy and history textbooks of the good Canadian State
Jayne Osgood (London Metropolitan University)
Mapping the fabricated identity of childminders: pride and prejudice
Christina Pedersen (Department of Communication Studies, University of Roskilde, Denmark)
The outreach of knowledge production - a question of institutional politics, collectivity and notions of social change
Ann Pegg (Centre for Educational Policy, Leadership and Lifelong Learning, Open University)
Can school leaders allow themselves to learn from feedback?
Louise
Phillips (Department of Communication Studies, University of Roskilde, Denmark)
Negotiating contingent knowledge(s) in a time of epistemic doubt:
towards a framework for the analysis and practice of interactive research communication
Esther Priyadharshini (Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK)
Reclaiming a Trickster subjectivity for researchers
Sabi Redwood (Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University, UK)
(De)-Regulation of Research Ethics: Liberation or the legitimisation of fascist control?
Glenn Rikowski (School of Education, University of Northampton, UK)
Night Thoughts on the Education White Paper
Ruth Rikowski (London South Bank University)
Dialogue on the Business Takeover of Schools and Libraries
Ruth Rikowski (Faculty of Business, Computing and Information Management, London South Bank University)
The Transformation of Services and Intellectual Property Rights into International Tradable Commodities: a Marxist perspective on the GATS and TRIPS
Lorna Roberts (Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Rendering the invisible visible and the visible invisible: living the contradictions between ‘formal equality’ discourses and lived experiences of ‘informal inequality’
James Rolling (Pennsylvania State University, US)
Un-naming the story: transpositioning otherness and other subjectivities in postmodern discourse
Jerome
Satterthwaite (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Never mind subversion: the case for resistance, confrontational, rock solid, old
Christina Schwabenland (London Metropolitan University)
Representations of the Ideal as Symbols of Subversion
Ann Shreeve ()
Evaluating children’s trust pathfinders – work in progress
Wesley Shumar (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Student and Faculty Empowerment in a hybrid social learning space: Rethinking the Social at the Math Forum
Ewa Sidorenko (School of Education & Training, University of Greenwich
)
Education Policy & Resistance: a study from the perspective of complexity theory
Pat Sikes (University of Sheffield)
Subversive Knowing: Seeking an Understanding of Social Class Through Storying
Pat Sikes (University of Sheffield)
Barriers, Confining Structures, Transgressions: towards a different form of discourse
Robin
Simmons (University of Huddersfield)
Revisiting Braverman: the labour process in further education
Rebecca Storrow (Storrow & Associates Consulting, Florida, USA)
Creativity in Research: Process Painting and Process Writing - A Study of the Application of the Creative Process in Business
Ian Stronach (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Sex, science and educational research - and the researcher as
anti-scientist
Myer Taub (Drama Department, University of Cape Town, S Africa)
(f+a=r)
Mike Tresidder (Cornwall College)
The goddess Athena came to Telemachus in the likeness of Mentor…
Lisa
Vinebaum (Goldsmiths College, London)
Performance as Research Methodology
Barbara Walker (Centre for Applied Research in Education, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia)
symposium presentation
Michael Watts (Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge)
The Kwathu Project: education for global citizenship?
Jonathan Wyatt (Institute for the Advancement of University Learning, Oxford)
Performing an Enquiry into Writing (1)
Jonathan
Wyatt (Institute for the Advancement of University Learning, Oxford)
Performing an Enquiry into Writing (2)