EDI Research

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EDI is often associated with the practical management of processes within organisations.  However, EDI is also a field of innovative research incorporating theoretical, epistemological, methodological and empirical issues.  Many researchers across SSD work on EDI-relevant themes.  

However, our divisional research strength in this area has not always been fully recognised, nor has our intellectual and analytical contribution to academic research and literature in this field been sufficiently highlighted.  Researchers have little opportunity for inter-disciplinary interaction and exchange of ideas, which could potentially catalyse collaboration and mutual intellectual enrichment.

We seek here to showcase such research within and beyond the University, transcending the disciplines and departments within which such research takes place, and to develop a multidisciplinary network for those undertaking, or planning to undertake, research in this area.

The Division is keen to now work with others across the University to highlight the contributions of researchers to EDI issues within and beyond the University, and to facilitate knowledge sharing, interdisciplinary collaborations and discussions.  If you would like to be informed of developments please register your interest by emailing diversity@socsci.ox.ac.uk

Equality and Diversity Research Spotlight and Network Events

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Researchers from across the Social Sciences Division came together to share research they are undertaking covering empirical, theoretical, conceptual, epistemological and methodological issues.

Key themes included equity and diversity in education, decolonisation and co-creation of knowledge, and social, economic, political legal, cultural and institutional processes of discriminisation, minoritisation and marginalisation.

 

Programme for the Equality and Diversity Research Spotlight event.

Further resources from this event are available via SSO on our SSD EDI Sharepoint site.  

This event showcased various initiatives that have taken place to engage with decolonising and diversifying the curricula, and creating inclusive classrooms, at Social Science departments within the University and in wider HE contexts.  Divisional EDI Associates spoke about the lessons which could be learned from these experiences. The aim of the event was to encourage knowledge exchange between departments with a view on progressing the EDI commitments of the university through engaging in the decolonising and diversifying curriculum debates meaningfully, and creating a collaborative and inclusive academic and learning culture. The session concluded with a film of an Induction workshop held in the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID).

Programme for the Curricula and Classrooms event.

Further resources from this event are available via SSO on our SSD EDI Sharepoint site. 

Academic journals have become the focal point in recent years of calls to ‘decolonise’ the academy and ‘decentre’ knowledge production. These calls are predicated upon redressing historic inequities in journal publishing, conceived along gendered, generational, racial, geographical, and class divides, among others. This SSD EDI Researchers Network Event offers an opportunity to share and learn from experiences of reforms in academic journal publishing.

Resources from this event will follow.

Professor Nandini Gooptu, Associate Head of the Social Sciences Division for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, was joined by the following speakers:

 

Professor Simukai Chigudu (Oxford Department of International Development)

‘When Will We Be Free? Writing a Historical Memoir about Decolonisation and Freedom’

 

Professor Arathi Sriprakash (Department of Education)

‘Reparative Futures of Education’

 

Professor Iyiola Solanke (Faculty of Law)

‘A Decolonial Approach to Research and Teaching in EU Law’

 

Dr Aradhana Cherupara Vadekkethil (Faculty of Law)

‘Rape Adjudication in India: A Reflection of Female Autonomy or a Reinforcement of Stereotypes’

 

A recording of this event will later be accessible via SSO.

Enquiries

The Division is keen to work with others across the University to highlight the contributions of researchers to EDI issues within and beyond the University, and to facilitate knowledge sharing, interdisciplinary collaborations and discussions. 

If you would like to be informed of developments please register your interest by emailing diversity@socsci.ox.ac.uk