Ways of knowing: Exploring the different registers, values and subjectivities of collaborative research

自2010年以来，澳大利亚人权委员会的连接社区方案支持了一系列共同设计，协作和参与式的研究项目，涉及与社区合作伙伴合作的学者。通过这些项目召集的活动，以及2011年和2012年的互联社区峰会，已经明确了通过这种合作研究产生什么样的知识或“知道”的关键问题。为了这个项目的目的，我们从不同的知识领域来概念化，这些知识来自不同的地方，在不同的地方有用（某些学科，为特定组织，为实践或“知道如何”）;“研究”的不同价值，以及不同利益相关者评估价值或有用性的不同方式;以及不同的主体性模式，指出合作研究需要一种“穿梭”，可以说是一种富有成效的“未知”（Vasudevan 2011）和认知，情感和具体的理解方式的重新配置。在这个后续项目中，我们将借鉴14个互联社区资助的项目，这些项目由项目团队的11名核心成员代表。这14个项目反映了该方案资助的艺术和人文社会科学学科的多样性和广度（社区和青年工作、公共政策、美术和创意艺术、设计、教育研究、女权主义理论、文学理论、博物馆和遗产研究、哲学）。这14个项目还代表了不同的协作知识生产场所（青年工作;博物馆和遗址;社区/公共卫生背景;地方政府）。更具体地说，这些项目代表了用于合作研究的不同方法，因此，也代表了不同的知识和认知方法。这个后续项目将提供一种创新的方法，通过有意识地部署我们在以前的合作研究实践中部署的不同方法，来解决合作研究，方法，结果和影响所提出的认识问题。我们将调查的方法和寄存器，价值观和“知道”的主观性之间的关系，通过合作研究，通过反身部署的多声讲故事的方法，非语言可视化和更具认知，理性和共识的苏格拉底对话的方法。我们的总体目标是通过阐明与社区一起设计和进行的研究的认识价值，为互联社区计划提供信息，并支持合作研究中创造性和反思性实践的发展。我们将通过一系列产出实现我们的目标：一个网站，代表和戏剧化的方法，该项目，因为它发生，一个可访问的PDF文件，这将给一个概述该项目，一个网站，通过整个项目产生的资源，1篇同行评审期刊文章（可能是社区参与和奖学金期刊）和一个国际研讨会，这将产生一个跨学科的网络，学术和非学术从业者在这一领域，并刺激未来的国际互联社区项目。

Since 2010 the AHRC Connected Communities programme has supported a range of co-designed, collaborative and participatory research projects involving academics working with community partners. Events convened through these projects, together with the Connected Communities Summits in 2011 and 2012, have made visible the crucial question of what kinds of knowledge or 'knowing' are generated through this kind of collaborative research. For the purposes of this project we conceptualize this in terms of the different registers of knowing which come from, and are useful in, different places (to certain academic disciplines, for specific organisations, for practice or 'know how'); the different value of the 'research' and the sometimes distinct ways in which worth or usefulness is assessed by different stakeholders; and the different modes of subjectivity which point to the way collaborative research demands a 'shuttling between', arguably a productive 'unknowing' (Vasudevan 2011) and a reconfiguring of cognitive, affective and embodied ways of understanding.In this Follow-Up project, we will draw on the 14 Connected Communities funded projects which are represented by the project team's 11 core members. The 14 projects reflect the diversity and breadth of arts and humanities and social science disciplines funded through the programme (Community and Youth Work, Public Policy, Fine Art and Creative Arts, Design, Education Studies, Feminist Theory; Literary Theory; Museum and Heritage Studies; Philosophy). The 14 projects also represent different sites of collaborative knowledge production (youth work; museums and heritage sites; community/public health contexts; local government). More particularly, the projects represent distinct methods used for collaborative research and, therefore, distinct approaches to knowledge and knowing. This Follow-Up project will offer an innovative methodology for addressing the epistemic questions raised by collaborative research, methods, outcomes and impacts precisely by self-consciously deploying the different methods we have ourselves deployed within our previous collaborative research practice. We will investigate the relationship between methods and the registers, values and subjectivities of 'knowing' generated through collaborative research through the reflexive deployment of polyvocal methods of storytelling, non-linguistic visualisation and the more cognitive, rational and consensus building approach of a Socratic Dialogue. Our overall aims are to inform the Connected Communities programme through articulating the epistemic value of research designed and conducted with communities and to support the development of creative and reflexive practice in collaborative research.We will achieve our aims and objectives through a range of outputs: a website representing and dramatizing the approaches of the project as it happens, an accessible PDF which will give an overview of the project, a website with focused pathways through the resources generated throughout the project, 1 peer-review journal article (likely venue Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship) and an international workshop which will generate a cross-disciplinary network of academic and non-academic practitioners in this area and stimulate future international Connected Communities projects.