4th International Diaconia Webinar: Blurring the Boundaries: New Research in Practice for Diaconia and Social Ministry
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Blurring the Boundaries: New Research in Practice for Diaconia and Social Ministry
Friday 17th November 2023 at 9-12 Central European time / 10-13 Finnish time
Welcome to join us in mutual learning and discussions on how research can be embedded in and contribute to the everyday practice of diaconal workers. In their engagement with people, diaconal and social workers are challenged by the need to develop relevant responses to rapid and often disruptive contextual changes. Daily they gather a lot of information from their grass-root presence with people, but they tend not to analyse it to inform practice.
In this webinar we will focus on exploring how we can develop ‘research in practice’ and ‘research on practice’. We will create an open space for discussion and invite contributions from innovative developments in the field of practice research. This will include participatory action research, the ways in which research can support strategies for transformation and emancipation and new developments in the field, where ethnographic research becomes a form of practice.
The webinar organisers invite practitioners, researchers, students, and others interested in the field. It will be in English.
For more information, please get in touch with Oksana Prosvirnina, Programme Leader in the International Academy for Christian and Social Action, Central and Eastern Europe.
Email: seniorlecturerop@interdiac.eu
The webinar programme is jointly organised by Diaconia University of Applied Science and the National Church Council (Finland), VID Specialized University (Norway), the Protestant Theological University (The Netherlands) and the International Academy for Christian and Social Action in Eastern and Central Europe (interdiac). It is an activity of the CODE Forum.
No registration required.
Zoom link: https://diak-fi.zoom.us/j/67989528491?pwd=UlpWTnRnUjM0QXN6cEZXR1JpaXdrZz09
Meeting ID: 679 8952 8491
Passcode: 378996
Programme
9.00 – 10.30 Welcome, introductions, input & discussion
Keynote input ‘Blurring the Boundaries’ (Tony Addy)
Discussion in small groups
10.30 – 10.45 – Coffee break
10.45 – 11.50 Presenting ‘local cases’ and perspectives:
- research in practice (Nicole Borisuk, a director of an NGO for marginalised youth in Odessa)
- researching practice (Thijs Tromp)
- pedagogy for research in practice (Oksana Prosvirnina)
Short discussion after each presentation
11.50 – 12.00 – Conclusions and closing of the event