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<\/p>\n
With the increasing calls\u00a0from funders\u00a0for large\u00a0interdisciplinary\u00a0research\u00a0teams, anthropology and ethnography feature more and more as a theoretical and\/or methodological approach. Such\u00a0interdisciplinary\u00a0research relies on the collaboration among people in and across various communities, societies and countries.\u00a0Researchers\u00a0engaged in such research\u00a0often experience\u00a0conflicting academic practices,\u00a0competing demands and obligations to and from the local communities in which they work,\u00a0to and from\u00a0researchers from radically\u00a0different\u00a0academic background,\u00a0and to and from funding bodies. Added to this mix is the pressure to maintain a consistent level of academic rigour, reflexivity and comprehensibility across\u00a0academic\u00a0cultures and\u00a0research\u00a0contexts.<\/p>\n
In this\u00a0seminar, Professor\u00a0Dikomitis\u00a0will reflect on the place\u00a0and practice\u00a0of\u00a0ethnography\u00a0in such\u00a0interdisciplinary\u00a0research, drawing on her experiences of\u00a0working for a decade in Anthropology, before moving to Medicine. She will use auto-ethnographic vignettes to talk about\u00a0data 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\u00a0ECLIPSE<\/a>, a current interdisciplinary research programme.<\/p>\n SPEAKER\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Lisa Dikomitis<\/a>, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Social Sciences (ECLIPSE Co-Lead), Kent and Medway Medical School, University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University<\/p>\n DISCUSSANTS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Helen Price<\/a>, Professor of Parasitology (ECLIPSE Co-Lead), School of Life Sciences, Keele University<\/p>\n