This webinar series offers regular training and support for skills, knowledge and professional development on a variety of topics. The sessions are open to all and free to attend but require registration.

Researching Place from the Ground-up: An Engaged Scholarship Approach

This webinar will introduce engaged scholarship as a method for the study of place, providing examples from the Institute of Place Management's projects and expertise.
 
Engaged scholarship is a participatory style of research for obtaining the understanding of a complex problem in its particular context (Van de Ven, 2007) and typically from those key stakeholders affected by the issue being studied. Its origins can be traced to the work of Boyer (1990), who argued that scholarly activities need to move beyond the conduct of original research (scholarship of discovery) to form a dynamic definition of scholarship that helps to build bridges between theory and practice (scholarship of integration); incorporates scientific discovery with problem-solving that assists individuals and communities (scholarship of application); and promotes educational progress (scholarship of teaching) (also see Paynter, 2014). The scholarship of engagement entails the deployment of the above activities from outside the campus to people and places, and the work of the engaged scholar can, in turn, be directed towards larger, more humane ends (Boyer, 1990). As Van de Ven (2007, p. 9) observes, such collaboration in knowledge production can result in “knowledge that is more penetrating and insightful than when scholars or practitioners work on the problems alone”.

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