Posts about Decolonising research

The third episode of the IGDC’s Decolonising Development Research Podcast explored research impact. Like many institutions, the University of York defines impact as when the knowledge generated by research contributes to, benefits, and influences society, culture, the environment, and the economy. This broad definition has developed over time to account for the diverse benefits research … Continue reading Decolonising Research Impact: Lessons from the Decolonising Development Research Podcast 

This is the second blog arising from work on IGDC’s Decolonising Research Podcast series. How can researchers decolonise their work? What steps can be taken in terms of partnerships, methods, and impact? And what challenges does decolonisation raise for researchers? Researchers are increasingly encouraged to decolonise their research. This is particularly true in the field … Continue reading Working towards decolonising development research: partnerships, methods, and impact

This is the first blog arising from work on IGDC’s Decolonising Research podcast series. This post discusses the colonial character of established research practices and explains why they should be decolonised. It provides background to the IGDC’s Decolonising Research podcast. In Decolonizing Methodologies, Linda Tuhiwai Smith called research ‘one of the dirtiest words in the … Continue reading Decolonising research: Why should we decolonise development research?

Aasim Sheikh discusses the IGDC PGR students webinar in February 2024 where they discussed decolonial research in a digital age. With an agenda to promote conviviality within research, post-graduate researchers in Global Development at York have organised a seminar series, Breaking Disciplinary Barriers: Towards Interdisciplinary Horizons. Dr Hameed Chughtai, senior lecturer from Lancaster University Management School, was invited … Continue reading Interdisciplinary horizons and decolonial research in a digital age

IGDC PhD students Stella Nwawulu Chiemela, Luqman Muraina, and Aasim Sheikh give an overview of the IGDC Research Away Day. The decolonisation imperative In recent years, there has been a growing demand within the fields of international and global development to decolonise the knowledge production process. This imperative arises from critical examinations of the historical … Continue reading Decolonising development research: Navigating positionality and power dynamics in the pursuit of equitable partnerships

Jon Ensor, IGDC Director, discusses four broad themes which came out of 2023’s Annual Lecture. On 28 November it was my huge privilege to introduce Professor Uma Kothari as the speaker for IGDC’s 2023 Annual Lecture – Towards decoloniality and justice: when the past pushes unfinished into the present. Professor Kothari is well known for … Continue reading IGDC Annual Lecture 2023 – Uma Kothari’s Towards decoloniality and justice