Reimagining Racial Justice Research
Our early career network meetings aim to create space for early career researchers of 'race' and ethnicity to share experiences and insights, and to create connections.
In this meeting we will host an interactive workshop that recognises the emotional labour involved in researching racial injustice, particularly in the current social and political climate, and offers a space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with positive possibilities.
In small groups participants will discuss their research topics and identify a central story or narrative from their work that they want to disrupt. They will identify an imagined ‘positive future’ where their research problem no longer exists. They will explore what changed socially to enable this positive future to emerge, who led the transformation, what institutions disappeared or transformed, and what was rebuilt in their place. Using creative mediums such as collage, LEGO, mind-mapping / sketching, or AI image generation, each participant will document the change that took place accompanied by a future news headline, or a scene from everyday life that sums up their re-imagined positive future.
The workshop ends with a networking lunch.
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Room 4.212
University Place
Manchester
