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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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