Translations, Tensions and Togetherness: A Focus on International Knowledge Exchange

The SMI, in collaboration with the School of Education, is delighted to host their annual knowledge exchange event.

This year the focus is on the International Knowledge Exchange. Here, we want to consider what knowledge exchange looks like across contexts, geographies, ways of knowing and when doing social research.

Together, we want to consider the translations of knowledge, the tensions that may arise in the creation of knowledge and how togetherness is achieved.

Our programme of events features presentations and participatory activities that offer reflections on international partnerships, and conceptual work around knowledge across contexts, people and places. We will also host creative activities that critically engage with knowledge exchange, impact and activism and the ways in which we can all work to achieve shared routes to understanding.

We welcome academic staff of all career stages including postgraduate researchers, early career researchers and professional services with an interest in this area. We also welcome those who work beyond the university in community, public, third or private sector organisations. Please get in touch if you have any questions about the content of the event, access requirements and attendance.

Our event features presentations from the following:

Mapping an international movement: reflections from local to global (and back again)

Jessica Bradley, Senior Lecturer in Literacies and Language, School of Education

Ethics is everywhere: The value of interdisciplinary collaboration in Human Geography and Bioethics

Daniel Jones, Research Associate, iHuman

Disability Matters

Professor Dan Goodley, Rhea Halsey and the Disability Matters Team

Translations, tensions and togetherness: Reflections from the Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children RITEC Collaboration

Fiona Scott, Lecturer in Digital Literacies, School of Education

Audience diversity in the performing arts: navigating differences in cultures, languages, and methodologies

Mark Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Methods Institute (SMI)

An Experience of Knowledge Exchange through Participatory Action Research

Juan Mario Diaz Arevalo, Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations

Navigating international partnerships: A push-me-pull-you?

Sabine Little, Senior Lecturer, School of Education

As part of the day, there will be participatory reflection activities and rest breaks. Lunch is provided.

For general inquiries including accessibility, please contact the KE lead for the SMI, Dr Lauren White l.e.white@sheffield.ac.uk

The full programme

This event will be hybrid. An invite for a google meet link will be sent upon registration. For those joining in person, please note the following:

• We are in Seminar Room 5, The Wave.
  • Learn more about The Wave (staff login required).
  • Learn more about the accessibility of The Wave on AccessAble. This includes the availability of gendered, gender neutral and accessible toilets on each floor. The Wave also includes a prayer room and a baby feeding room.
• A quiet room for the day has been booked. This is Breakout Room 6.
• Microphone-use is mandatory at this event.
• Regular breaks and lunch are scheduled throughout the day.