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

自2010年以来，AHRC互联社区项目支持了一系列共同设计、协作和参与性的研究项目，涉及学者与社区合作伙伴的合作。通过这些项目召集的活动，以及2011年和2012年举行的互联社区峰会，让人们看到了这样一个关键问题：通过这种合作研究可以产生什么样的知识或“了解”。为了这个项目的目的，我们将这一概念概念化为不同的知识来源，并在不同的地方有用（对于某些学术学科，特定组织，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，这些模式指出合作研究需要“穿梭于”之间，可以说是一种富有成效的“未知”（Vasudevan 2011），以及对认知、情感和体现的理解方式的重新配置。在这个后续项目中，我们将利用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个项目反映了获资助的艺术、人文和社会科学学科（社区与青年工作、公共政策、美术与创意艺术、设计、教育研究、女权主义理论、文学理论、博物馆与遗产研究、哲学）的多样性和广度。这14个项目还代表了协作知识生产的不同场所（青年工作；博物馆和遗产地；社区/公共卫生环境；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，因此也代表了获取知识和认知的不同途径。这个后续项目将提供一种创新的方法，通过自觉地部署我们在以前的合作研究实践中部署的不同方法，精确地解决合作研究、方法、结果和影响所提出的认识论问题。我们将研究方法与“认知”的语域、价值观和主体性之间的关系，这些关系是通过合作研究产生的，通过反思性地部署讲故事的多声音方法、非语言可视化和苏格拉底对话的更认知、理性和共识的建立方法。我们的总体目标是通过阐明与社区一起设计和开展的研究的认知价值，为互联社区项目提供信息，并支持合作研究中创造性和反思性实践的发展。我们将透过一系列的产出，达致我们的宗旨和目标：一个网站代表和戏剧化的项目的方法，一个可访问的PDF，将提供一个项目的概述，一个网站通过整个项目产生的资源集中路径，1篇同行评议的期刊文章（可能在《社区参与与奖学金期刊》上发表）和一个国际研讨会，该研讨会将在该领域建立一个跨学科的学术和非学术实践者网络，并促进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.