Equitable collaboration is less about who sits at the table than when they are invited to it. Trust is nurtured by opening the process while it is still unfinished, so that partners shape the work rather than receive it. Process is where power shows. When collaboration only begins at the finished output, the people who…
I have a tagline for the creative writing side of my life – “words can be doves or bullets, choose wisely”. I try to be careful with the words I use. Yet sometimes (and I know from experience) a word might ‘hit’ someone the wrong way. In a workshop I said that academics like to…
While researchers do think, and try their best, to be equitable in their engagement with communities there is often (and I know this from experience) the feeling among communities, partners etc that researchers are more extractive than they realise. This is often due to the nature of funding where researchers have to end a project…
Two different skills, both valuable. As researchers we love to share what we are doing but sometimes I feel it’s just as important to take a breath and listen to those we want to work with.
