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Subject: Request to post a PDW announcement
From: "Bill Kaghan" <
wkaghan@MSN.COM>
Date: Thu, July 20, 2006 3:20 pm
To:
PNP-NET-request@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
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To whom it may concern,
I tried to post this announcement of a PDW sponsored by PNP to the PNP
listserv. However, I do not subscribe to the PNP listserv myself and the
AoM listserv rejected this attempt and suggested that I contact the list
owners. I am hoping that you will be able to post this announcement for me.
Thank you!
Best, Bill Kaghan
From: Bill Kaghan <
wkaghan@msn.com>
To:
PNP-NET@aomlists.pace.edu
Subject: PDW Announcement: "Doing Critical Applied Research"
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:00 PM
When and Where: Sunday, August 13, 10:00 - 12 noon, Hilton, Atlanta,
Roosevelt, Third Floor
(Sponsored by CMS, PNP, CAR, ODC, GDO, PTC)
The focus of this PDW is best explained by looking at the four words in the
title in reverse order. First and foremost, this PDW is concerned with
producing research that is both rigorous and relevant with one important
proviso. It assumes that publication in a major peer-reviewed academic
journal is but one of several indications of research that is both rigorous
and relevent. Our focus is on research in which other publication venues -
funded research, consulting, research reports, newspaper or online articles
and many others - are as important or more important than publication in a
peer-reviewed academic journal. By the term applied, we mean to focus on
research that is intended not only to inform academic debates but to inform
policies and practices in private sector, public sector, and non-profit
sector organizations. By the term critical, we mean to focus on rigorous
(broadly defined) research that, in some sense, goes against the mainstream
and is not part of the dominant logic either in academic or policy circles.
Critical research, in this sense, both challenges and deconstructs the
dominant logic and suggests novel lines of action. By the term doing, we
mean to focus more on process and less on method. There are two particularly
important aspects of this process. First, because critical applied research
is "outside the mainstream," it is often complicated to arrange (for a
variety of reasons) and requires sound judgement as well as sound methods.
Second, critical applied research by definition requires the involvement of
both academics and non- academics in framing the research agenda and often
in carrying out the research. This PDW is intended for anyone from doctoral
student to senior academic to industrial or government researcher to
reflective practitioner who is interested in or involved with doing critical
applied research.
The format will feature brief overviews from two practitioners (Tom
Potterfield, Tony LeTrent-Jones), two critical academics (David Knights,
David Weir), and summary observations from a senior academic (Mariann
Jelinek) followed by an open discussion with the audience.
Bill Kaghan