Please excuse cross-postings.
When and Where: Sunday, August 13, 10:00 - 12 noon, Hilton, Atlanta,
Roosevelt, Third Floor
The focus of this PDW is best explained by looking at the four words in
the title in reverse order. First and foremost, this PDW is concerned with
producing research that is both rigorous and relevant with one important
proviso. It assumes that publication in a major peer-reviewed academic
journal is but one of several indications of research that is both
rigorous and relevant. Our focus is on research in which other publication
venues - funded research, consulting, research reports, newspaper or
online articles and many others - are as important or more important than
publication in a peer-reviewed academic journal. By the term applied, we
mean to focus on research that is intended not only to inform academic
debates but to inform policies and practices in private sector, public
sector, and non-profit sector organizations. By the term critical, we mean
to focus on rigorous (broadly defined) research that, in some sense, goes
against the mainstream and is not part of the dominant logic either in
academic or policy circles. Critical research, in this sense, both
challenges and deconstructs the dominant logic and suggests novel lines of
action. By the term doing, we mean to focus more on process and less on
method. There are two particularly important aspects of this process.
First, because critical applied research is "outside the mainstream," it
is often complicated to arrange (for a variety of reasons) and requires
sound judgement as well as sound methods. Second, critical applied
research by definition requires the involvement of both academics and non-
academics in framing the research agenda and often in carrying out the
research. This PDW is intended for anyone from doctoral student to senior
academic to industrial or government researcher to reflective practitioner
who is interested in or involved with doing critical applied research.
The format will feature brief overviews from two practitioners (Tom
Potterfield, Tony LeTrent-Jones), two critical academics (David Knights,
David Weir), and summary observations from a senior academic (Mariann
Jelinek) followed by an open discussion with the audience.
Bill Kaghan
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