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    RICW - Imagining the ethical horizons of your research
    Provider   Organisational and Staff Development Unit

    Exploring how to use creativity and imagination to build ethical interdisciplinary responses to global challenges, such as health, climate, inequality and impacts of technology.

Duration 1 half day

Course Type Workshop

Booking Status Now Booking

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Target Audience: Anyone involved in research and/or knowledge exchange and/or teaching & learning

The workshop will prompt participants to ask, "what if?" and to imagine the different futures that may arise from their professional practice and/or research.

 

Given the rapid progress of research and development and its potential global impacts, and the growing focus of funding bodies on ethical practice and impact, how we connect multidisciplinary research and innovation to ethical impacts is highly relevant to many research and industry members of the community. Starting from the futures imagined through creative forms such as science fiction, we will use creative activities to engage participants in imagining the ethical horizons of their own professional work, in the process building new connections across disciplines and perspectives.  

 

Outcomes/Objectives

·        Explore through some classic examples of creative fiction how to bring alive the ethical dilemmas relating to today’s key research and innovation challenges

·        Be inspired to dissect the ethical implications and ‘what-if?s of your own work

·       Discover how interdisciplinary thinking can catalyse your own research and innovation in the future

Accessibility Statement

We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff:

For on-campus activity:

·       Full access information for the venue is available via AccessAble [insert link to the info of the specific venue or building listed on http://accessable.co.uk] 

·       Hybrid provision is not available 

·       There will be audience participation

·       You are asked to attend the whole session

·       There will be several breaks throughout the session

·       The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.

·       In line with current University health and safety guidance, attendees may wish to use face masks. The room will have either mechanical ventilation or passive ventilation (i.e. open windows)

·       Digital copies of resources will be emailed to participants in advance of delivery upon request

·       Contact [event organiser] to request printed materials in different formats

·       Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements


Delivered By: Mark Haw, Jordan Kistler and Abdul Sharif

Prerequisites

none