More detailed information on the event, including precise location and confirmed speakers, will be shared with attendees in due coure. Please contact LSSI@leeds.ac.uk for any questions, accessibility requirements or to ask to speak at the event.
This event is hosted by the Leeds Social Sciences Institute, a vibrant research institute that supports interdisciplinary collaboration across the social sciences at the University of Leeds. We facilitate research impact, knowledge exchange, and international partnerships to address societal challenges.
Research internationalisation is essential for identifying and tackling complex global challenges that require collaboration between different research partners. This one-day hybrid workshop on 24 June 2025 is focused on the internationalisation of research impact. It aims to explore how researchers from the Social Sciences, Humanities & the Arts for People and the Economy (SHAPE) engage with international partners, influence policies, and deliver impact. When it comes to research internationalisation, working with international partners in other countries and in a global context necessitates careful consideration of the decolonising agenda. Within the literature, scholars have warned about the danger of neocolonialism, the exclusion of local voices, and perpetrating the narratives of deficit in international research and knowledge production (Mittelmeier & Yang 2022). In particular, practices around the privileging of Eurocentric perspectives, and processes, stereotypes around the lack of skills and capacity of Global South partners and the unequal distribution of power, resources, and benefits from research have been highlighted as problematic (Haley, Alemu, Zerihun, & Uusimäki 2022; Woldegiyorgis, Proctor, & de Wit, 2018; and Bradley, 2008).
In this workshop, we explore how researchers work with international partners to influence policies and deliver impact in line with the decolonising research agenda. The workshop will bring together researchers from across SHAPE to share experiences and develop best practices in the interconnected areas of research internationalisation, research impact and the decolonising research agenda.
Our Key Questions:
- What are the best practices and/or methods of engaging and working with international partners?
- How do we deliver research impact, and influence policy in international research?
- How to navigate the tension between the local and global in international research and impact?
- How can researchers contribute to decolonising research impact and to epistemological justice in international research?
If you would like to share your experiences of delivering impact in international research in line with the decolonising agenda, please send a short 250 word abstract that provides an outline of your presentation to lssi@leeds.ac.uk by Monday 31st of March 2025.
