Stevens, E.;
Dhavan, N.;
Matzner, S.;
(2024)
Activism and the academy: implementing and evaluating activist-in-residence programmes.
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Abstract
Activist-in-residence programmes in universities represent a paradox: what space exists for activists in institutions which are often seen as re/creating and perpetuating hegemonic structures, and/or as the epistemic sources and reinforcers of the very ideas which activists aim to disrupt? In this article, we examine the motivations and theoretical considerations that drive the establishment of such programmes, and discuss the tensions and possibilities that arise from this inherent paradox. Based on an analysis of existing activist-in-residence programmes and current theoretical framings, we propose a reflexive process evaluation framework for their development and evaluation. We then deploy the framework to critically review a recent activist-in-residence programme hosted by Queer@King’s, an interdisciplinary research centre specialising in gender and sexuality at King’s College London, UK.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Activism and the academy: implementing and evaluating activist-in-residence programmes |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/RFA.08.1.09 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.08.1.09 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024, Ed Stevens, Nayana Dhavan and Sebastian Matzner. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | process evaluation, reflexivity, activist-in-residence, activism, engaged scholarship |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10202796 |
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