{"id":11233,"date":"2021-02-08T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=11233"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:22:12","slug":"reflecting-on-race-and-whiteness-in-international-research-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2021\/02\/08\/reflecting-on-race-and-whiteness-in-international-research-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on race and whiteness in international research projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: 19th February 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time<\/strong>: 12-14:00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: Zoom<\/p>\n<p>This talk will build on the speakers&#8217; recent paper on race and whiteness in contemporary research in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/p>\n<p><strong>About this Event<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The presentation will analyse the manifestations of race and whiteness in contemporary international research partnerships, particularly the racially structured inequalities that underpin these projects and the different ways in which they are concealed and tapped upon. Building on this, the authors will reflect on wider research ethics in research partnerships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aimable Amani Lameke<\/strong>\u00a0is the director of Marakuja Kivu Research. As a researcher, he has 13 years of experience researching the social, economic and political transformations eastern DRC, and has worked with a range of Congolese, European and North American Universities and research institutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gauthier Marchais<\/strong>\u00a0is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He works on social transformation in contexts of violent conflict. His current research focuses on education in contexts of protracted violence, with a focus on the provinces of South Kivu and Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christian PolePole Bazuzi<\/strong>\u00a0is researcher on rural development. He has more than 10 years of experience in mixed methods academic research, across the provinces of eastern DRC. He has expertise on monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian projects, and has worked in conflict-affected areas, including on non-state armed groups. He is currently a research supervisor at Marakuja Kivu Research, and a trainer and supervisor of the Crisis Observatory Program of the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p>A zoom link will be sent close to the date to all those who register for the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/reflecting-on-race-and-whiteness-in-international-research-partnerships-tickets-138005603475?keep_tld=1\">Reflecting on race and whiteness in international research partnerships Tickets, Fri 19 Feb 2021 at 12:00 | Eventbrite<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 19th February 2021 Time: 12-14:00 Location: Zoom This talk will build on the speakers&#8217; recent paper on race and whiteness in contemporary research in&#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2021\/02\/08\/reflecting-on-race-and-whiteness-in-international-research-projects\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[588,68],"class_list":["post-11233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-online-event","tag-research-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11234,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11233\/revisions\/11234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}