CDD – Civil Society, Development and Democracy

Previous events and links to event resources

Security in Fieldwork 7th June 2023

Critical Ethnography 5th December 2022

Beyond the Academy: Engaging and Working with Activist Communities 12th January 2022

Researchers Turning Activists: Climate Emergency and the Alliance between Scientists and Environmental Activists 4th December 2020

PhD Research in a Time of Covid-19 28th May 2020

The Challenges of (Studying) Development 26th April 2019

Making Policy for Social and Economic Justice 13th December 2018

Additional Resources

In this Podcast, Dr Matthew Bishop (UoS) interviews Dr Adam Baird (University of Coventry) about conducting ethnographic research and staying safe whilst doing so. This is in the context of Adam’s research into male bravado and gang research in Colombia.

Suggested Readings

Croft and Vaughan Williams (2016) Fit for purpose? Fitting ontological security studies ‘into’ the discipline of International Relations: Towards a vernacular turn, Cooperation and Conflict, 52, 1.
Head (2016) Costly Encounters of the Empathetic Kind, International Theory, 8, 1.
Ivanitskaya (et al) (2002) Interdisciplinary Learning: Process and Outcomes, Innovative Higher Education, 27, 2.
Jackson (2006) Feminism Spoken Here: Epistemologies for Interdisciplinary Development Research, Development and Change, 37, 3.
Kadercan (2015) Triangulating territory: a case for pragmatic interaction between political science, political geography, and critical IR, International Theory, 7, 1.
Kanbur et al (2011) Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Strife. An Interdisciplinary Perspective, World Development, 39, 2.
Kumar (2011) Postcolonialism: interdisciplinary or interdiscursive? Third World Quarterly, 32, 4.
Madrueño and Tezanos (2018) The contemporary development discourse: Analysing the influence of development studies’ journals, World Development, 109.
Nicolescu (1999) The transdisciplinary evolution of learning. UNESCO publication collection.
Park and Son (2010) Transitioning toward Transdisciplinary Learning in a Multidisciplinary Environment. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 6, 1.
Rosow (2003) Towards an Anti-Disciplinary Global Studies, International Studies Perspectives, 4, 1.
Tickner (2005) What Is Your Research Program? Some Feminist Answers to International Relations Methodological Questions, International Studies Quarterly, 49, 1.

YouTube Links

Radical Interdisciplinarity and Other Ingredients for Innovation: Andrew Nelson at TEDxUOregon

Transdisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, Reductive Disciplinarity, and Deep Disciplinarity: Emory University

Vlog 65 – Interdisciplinarity and the PhD: Office of Graduate Research Flinders University