Ethnography in/and/of interdisciplinary research workshop

Professor Lisa Dikomitis to speak at this hybrid workshop organised by the Centre for Ethnographic Research, open to Kent Students, staff, academics on June 9th

With the increasing calls from funders for large interdisciplinary research teams, anthropology and ethnography feature more and more as a theoretical and/or methodological approach. Such interdisciplinary research relies on the collaboration among people in and across various communities, societies and countries. Researchers engaged in such research often experience conflicting academic practices, competing demands and obligations to and from the local communities in which they work, to and from researchers from radically different academic background, and to and from funding bodies. Added to this mix is the pressure to maintain a consistent level of academic rigour, reflexivity and comprehensibility across academic cultures and research contexts.

In this seminar, Professor Dikomitis will reflect on the place and practice of ethnography in such interdisciplinary research, drawing on her experiences of working for a decade in Anthropology, before moving to Medicine. She will use auto-ethnographic vignettes to talk about data collection, data analysis, community engagement and involvement, dissemination of findings, representation and authorship, concepts of impact and applying for funding. She will refer to her experiences of co-leading ECLIPSE, a current interdisciplinary research programme.

SPEAKER 

Lisa Dikomitis, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Social Sciences (ECLIPSE Co-Lead), Kent and Medway Medical School, University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University

DISCUSSANTS 

Helen Price, Professor of Parasitology (ECLIPSE Co-Lead), School of Life Sciences, Keele University

Sukhi Shergill, Professor of Psychiatry, Kent and Medway Medical School, University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University

Brianne Wenning, Lecturer in Global Health (ECLIPSE PDRA), Kent and Medway Medical School, University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University

PROGRAMME 

14:00 – 14:45: Ethnography in/and/of interdisciplinary research

14:45 – 15:15: Reflections from three disciplinary perspectives

15:15 – 15:30: Break

15:30 – 16:30: Discussion

Please complete a short survey to inform the discussion and for more information or to register please contact: Dr Zerrin Ozlem Biner or Dr David Garbin