ReValuing Care: Perspectives from Gender, Sexuality and Law

重估护理研究网络将是一个由学者和相关第三部门专业人员组成的国际跨学科网络，共同探讨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、学科和背景的从事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。该网络建立在最初由ahrc资助的法律、性别和性研究中心（CentreLGS， 2004-2009年资助，等级优秀）建立的学术联系的基础上，并将促进加强中心合作机构（基尔、肯特和威斯敏斯特）之间的联系，并与阿德莱德大学的Fay Gale性别研究中心建立新的研究合作关系。与其他通过网络活动产生的新的国际和跨学科学术合作一起。基尔大学的性别、性与法律研究小组将领导该网络，该小组在性别、性与法律领域的前沿学术研究方面享有国际声誉。Fay Gale中心建立在阿德莱德大学跨学科卓越的性别研究基础上，为与社会性别有关的新理论和方法的发展和吸收提供了一个重点。在过去的三十年里，关怀一直是女权主义研究的支柱，在不同的时期，不同的关怀方法占主导地位。通过为学者提供物理和虚拟空间进行互动、讨论和展示他们的工作，这个研究网络的核心研究问题将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法和方法工具。计划中的研究网络的核心是致力于为学者和活动家、倡导者以及在第三部门工作的其他人之间的公开对话创造机会。为此，该网络将举办两个国际跨学科讲习班。第一个研讨会“关爱资源”将于2012年9月在英国基尔大学举行。工作坊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，并允许提出实证和概念性的学术工作。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。网络的每一个物理会议空间都将通过开发和实施一个互动网站得到支持。研讨会参与者和网络成员将被鼓励通过网络网站继续在研讨会上开始的对话。网站的使用将与讲习班活动结合起来，以确保参与者和讨论有效地跨越物理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界和第三部门成员组成的咨询小组监督。在讲习班之后，将发展该项目的三个进一步产出：1)将汇集由哈丁（PI）和弗莱彻（Co-I）编辑的针对学术读者的该项目的论文汇编；2)在项目网站上发布一份与政策相关的报告，确定研讨会上产生的关键主题、问题和议题；3)主要参与者的目标是组建一个国际合作研究项目团队，推进一个或多个确定的研究重点。

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.