New practices for new publics: interdisciplinary dialogues about practice theory approaches and civil society. Seminar series.

这一系列研讨会提出，“实践理论”，一种创新的社会科学方法，研究“我们做什么”在现场和日常生活中，提供了一个基础和语言进行对话的民间社会。它将侧重于民间社会是如何制定的照顾，同伴支持和学习被认为是重要的背景下。虽然这些可以说是无处不在的“生活经验”的领域，健康和教育被视为独立的机构，并通过学科和学科的学术惯例。民间社会组织不受这些公约的约束，它们在与公共机构有关的空间开展活动，但也在公共机构“外部”或“其他”空间开展活动。这些使它们具有新的和不同的能力，使公民的生活经验具有连续性和认可。研讨会的目的是阐明，与/通过民间社会组织的专业知识，“新的公共”：当照顾，同伴支持和学习是从民间社会组织而不是公共机构的角度来理解时出现的集体。实践理论挑战传统的个人主义或过度理性的解释，探索人们和组织做什么是由例程和工具以及有意识的选择塑造的。因此，它被视为与试图改变普通做法有关，特别是（迄今为止）与气候变化以及越来越多的公共卫生有关的做法。它还为各组织提供了一种方式，在民间社会组织和法定公共服务的界限正在重新谈判的时候，思考自己的工作。该系列研讨会将特别致力于阐明民间社会组织支持社区和公民实施的“做法”。这些做法可以是：使志愿人员能够支持有额外需要的儿童的父母;涉及基于权利的宣传和运动;通过电话热线和一对一服务支持个人福利。这些研讨会旨在与当地用户社区合作，了解“知道”是如何在实践中产生的，在组织内部和跨组织环境，评估实力或基于资产的方法，如弹性，社会资本，能力或健康能力建设，青年工作和社会关怀，教育中的家长参与实践，社区在设计和开发新技术和数据实践中的地位。 该系列特别植根于当地背景。布莱顿大学通过其社区大学伙伴关系计划（CUPP）与民间社会组织建立了联系，该计划通常被视为优秀实践的典范。所有申请高等教育机构都与民间社会组织合作并为民间社会组织进行研究，并将其与学生联系起来进行安置。然而，让他们参与学术生活的其他方面，包括理论反思和发展，往往更加令人担忧或欠发达，就像在不同领域建立联系一样。这一系列研讨会将以这些联系为基础，但扩大伙伴关系，以讨论实践理论对民间社会组织的价值，邀请民间社会组织超越其自身领域进行思考，并考虑与其他民间社会组织和高等教育机构建立联系后，它们可以/是否可以学到什么。为了使民间社会组织能够真正参与，我们将提供小额奖学金，并创新系列的结构。我们开始与为期两天的面对面的活动，汇集所有参与者（约40），共同交付的CSO合作者。随后的为期一天的研讨会允许使用网络研讨会技术进行虚拟参与。每个研讨会将确定要探索的关键思想，范例和相关的方法来推广。该系列的高潮是一个密集的写作研讨会（一个“书冲刺”），一个小的，不同的群体将集体产生一本电子书，解释实践理论方法的相关性，以公民社会及其组织的问题，使学习从系列可以迅速传播，发展和竞争。

This seminar series proposes that 'practice theory', an innovative social science approach which studies 'what we do' in situ and in the everyday, offers a basis and a language for conducting conversations about civil society. It will focus on how civil society is enacted in contexts where care, peer support and learning are recognised as important. Although these are arguably ubiquitous areas of 'lived experience', health and education are treated as separate institutionally and through academic conventions of subjects and disciplines. Civil society organisations [CSOs] are not bound to these conventions, operating in spaces connected to, but also 'outside' or 'other than', public institutions. These afford them new and different capabilities for bringing continuity and recognition to citizens' lived experiences. The seminars aim to articulate, with/through the expertise of CSOs, 'new publics': those collectives that emerge when care, peer support and learning are understood from the point of view of CSOs instead of public institutions.Practice theory challenges conventional individualistic or over-rationalistic explanations, exploring how what people and organisations do is shaped by routines and tools as well as by conscious choices. As a result it has been seen as relevant for trying to change ordinary practices, particularly (to date) in relation to climate change and, increasingly, public health. It also offers a way for organisations to think about their own work at a time when the boundaries of CSOs and statutory public services are being renegotiated. The seminar series will specifically aim to articulate the 'practices' that CSOs support communities and citizens to enact. These could be (eg) practices that: enable volunteers to support parents of children with additional needs; involve rights-based advocacy and campaigning; support individual wellbeing via a telephone helpline and 1-to-1 service. The seminars aim to work with local user communities to understand how 'knowing' is produced in practice across within and across organisational contexts, evaluate strength- or asset-based approaches like resilience, social capital, capabilities or capacity-building in health, youth work and social care, parental engagement practices in education, the place for community in the design and development of new technologies and data practices. The series is specifically rooted in local contexts. The University of Brighton has links with CSOs through its Community University Partnership Programme [CUPP], often noted as a model of excellent practice. All applicant HEIs research with and for CSOs and connect them with students for placements. However, involving them in other aspects of academic life, including theoretical reflection and development, is often more fraught or under-developed, as is making connections across different fields. This seminar series would build on these links, but extend partnerships to discuss the value of theories of practice for CSOs, inviting CSOs to think beyond their own domains, and to consider what/if they might learn from connecting with other CSOs and HEIs. It is open-ended and even tentative about what might emerge here.To enable genuine engagement by CSOs, we will offer small bursaries and innovate the structure of the series. We begin with a two-day face to face event bringing all participants (approx 40) together, co-delivered by CSO collaborators. Subsequent one-day seminars allow for virtual participation using webinar technologies. Each seminar will identify key ideas to be explored, exemplars, and relevant methods to promote. The series culminates in an intensive writing workshop (a 'book sprint') where a small, diverse group will collectively generate an e-book that explains the relevance of practice theory approaches to questions of civil society and its organisation, so that the learning from the series can be quickly disseminated, developed and contested.