ReValuing Care: Perspectives from Gender, Sexuality and Law

重新评估护理研究网络将是一个由学者和相关的第三部门专业人员共同工作的国际跨学科网络，以审问当代和未来对护理概念和规范理解的方法。该网络的成员将包括来自不同地点、学科和背景的研究与护理相关问题的学者，包括医疗保健、儿童保育、老年人护理、环境问题、动物福利和其他相关领域。该网络建立在AHRC资助的法律、性别和性行为研究中心(CentreLGS，2004-2009年资助，杰出评级)初步建立的学术联系的基础上，并将促进加强中心伙伴机构(基尔、肯特和威斯敏斯特)之间的联系，与阿德莱德大学费盖尔性别问题研究中心建立新的研究合作，以及通过网络活动产生的其他新的国际和跨学科学术合作。基尔大学的性别、性和法律研究小组将领导该网络，他在性别、性和法律方面的尖端学术研究在国际上享有盛誉。费盖尔中心建立在阿德莱德大学性别研究的跨学科卓越的基础上，为发展和采用与社会性别有关的新的理论和方法方法提供重点。过去30年来，护理一直是女权主义研究的中流砥柱，不同的护理方法在不同时期占据主导地位。这个研究网络的核心研究问题将通过为学者提供互动、讨论和展示他们的工作的物理和虚拟空间，有助于未来对护理的概念理解。研究网络的参与者将来自各种不同的学科背景，因此将利用多种概念方针和方法工具。计划中的研究网络的核心是致力于在学者和活动家、倡导者和其他在第三部门工作的人之间创造公开对话的机会。为了做到这一点，该网络将运营两个跨学科的国际研讨会。第一个研讨会《关爱的资源》将于2012年9月在英国基尔大学举行。研讨会2“关心社会互联”将于2013年9月在阿德莱德大学举行。讲习班将精心安排，以提供讨论和互动的空间，并允许介绍经验性和概念性学术工作。研讨会组织者将确保每个活动的形式尽可能包容和促进非学术参与。将通过开发和实施一个互动网站，为网络的每一个实体会议空间提供支助。将鼓励讲习班参与者和网络成员通过网络网站继续在讲习班上开始的对话。该网站的使用将与讲习班活动相结合，以确保参与者和讨论有效地跨越实体空间和虚拟空间之间的界限。研究网络的活动将由一个由学术和第三部门成员组成的咨询小组监督。在研讨会之后，将进一步开发项目的三项成果：1)针对学术受众的项目论文编辑集将汇集在一起，由Harding(PI)和Fletcher(Co-I)编辑；2)确定研讨会上产生的关键主题、问题和问题的政策相关报告将在项目网站上发布；以及3)主要参与者旨在组建一个国际合作研究项目小组，以推进一项或多项已确定的研究优先事项。

The ReValuing Care Research Network will be an international, interdisciplinary network of academics and related third sector professionals working together to interrogate contemporary and future approaches to conceptual and normative understandings of care. Members of the network will include academics working on issues related to care from a variety of different sites, disciplines and contexts, including healthcare, childcare, eldercare, environmental issues, animal welfare and other related fields. The network builds on academic connections initially developed through the AHRC-funded Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality (CentreLGS, funded 2004-2009, graded Outstanding), and will facilitate the strengthening of links between centre partner institutions, (Keele, Kent and Westminster) and the creation of new research collaborations with the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender at the University of Adelaide, alongside other new international and interdisciplinary academic collaborations that arise through the network activities. The Gender, Sexuality and Law research group at Keele, who will lead on the network, have an established international reputation for cutting edge scholarship in gender, sexuality and law. The Fay Gale Centre builds on interdisciplinary excellence in gender studies at the University of Adelaide to provide a focus for the development and uptake of new theoretical and methodological approaches relating to gender in society.Care has been a mainstay of feminist research for the last three decades, with different approaches to care being ascendant at different times. The research questions at the heart of this research network will contribute to future conceptual understandings of care, through providing physical and virtual spaces for scholars to interact, discuss and present their work. The participants in the research network will be drawn from a variety of different disciplinary backgrounds and will therefore draw on a multiplicity of conceptual approaches and methodological tools. At the heart of the planned research network is a commitment to creating opportunities for open dialogue between academics and activists, advocates and others working in the third sector. To do so, the network will run two international, interdisciplinary workshops.The first workshop, 'Resources for Caring' will take place in September 2012 at Keele University, UK. Workshop 2, 'Caring about Social Interconnection' will take place in September 2013 at the University of Adelaide. The workshops will be carefully structured to provide space for discussion and interaction, as well as allowing for the presentation of both empirical and conceptual academic work. The workshop organizers will ensure that the format of each event is as inclusive and facilitative of non-academic engagement as possible. Each of these physical meeting spaces for the network will be supported through the development and implementation of an interactive website. Workshop participants and network members will be encouraged to continue the conversations started at the workshops through the network website. Use of the website will be integrated with the workshop activities, in order to ensure that participants and discussions effectively cross the boundary between physical and virtual space. The research network activities will be overseen by an Advisory Panel, with both academic and third sector members.Following the workshops, three further outputs from the project will be developed: 1) an edited collection of papers from the project, aimed at an academic audience, will be drawn together, edited by Harding (PI) and Fletcher (Co-I); 2) a policy-relevant report identifying key themes, questions and issues generated at the workshops will be published on the project website; and 3) the key participants aim to put together an international collaborative research project team to take forward one or more of the identified research priorities.