Engaging with Policy, Practice and Publics

“Focusing on the personhood of researchers and scholars, this collection addresses important practical and epistemological questions about knowledge construction and impact both within and outside of the academy. A valuable bookshelf addition for anyone interested in the research process and product and the relationship between them.” Gayle Letherby, Plymouth University and The University of Greenwich

Sarah Marie Hall is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester

Ralitsa Hiteva is Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex

Foreword : Intersectionality in publics, policy and practice ~ Ruth Ibegbuna

Engaging with policy, practice and publics: an introduction ~ Sarah Marie Hall and Ralitsa Hiteva;

Part I: Encounters with difference

Dwarfism expectations: intersections of gender, disability and (hetero)sexuality in engagements with potential participants ~ Erin Pritchard;

'You're not from 'round here, are you?': Class, accent and dialect as opportunity and obstacle in research encounters ~ Sarah Marie Hall;

Part II: Experts and expertise

Participants as experts in their own lives: researching in post-industrial, intergenerational and post-colonial space ~ Michael Richardson

Encounter(ing) spaces and experts: negotiating stakeholder relations within infrastructure research ~ Ralitsa Hiteva

Theorising transdisciplinary research encounters: energy and Illawarra, Australia ~ Gordon Waitt

Part III: Research, power and institutions

Nomadic positionings: a call for critical approaches to disability policy in Canada ~ Pamela Moss and Michael J. Prince

Critic, advocate, enforcer: the multiple roles of academics in public policy ~ John Paul Catungal

Conclusions: encountering and building on difference ~ Ralitsa Hiteva and Sarah Marie Hall