Sister Insider: Navigating roles, voice, and power as a researcher in justice-oriented science

Join us for a virtual workshop on conducting policy and action research within our own communities. How do we navigate insider and outsider statuses as researchers, advocates and community members? Under what conditions is being the researcher in the room a place of power or a position of low regard? Can research focused on justice be done (credibly) without participatory methods? What distinguishes independent research from claims of objectivity and neutrality? In this workshop, we will use examples from LGBTQ policy research as a jumping off point to explore strategies for navigating the power, privilege and opportunity differentials involved when researchers hope to contribute to policy solutions within their own communities.

About the speaker

Bianca D.M. Wilson, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Welfare at the Luskin School of Public Affairs and an affiliate faculty member of the California Center for Population Research at UCLA. Her research explores the relationships between culture, oppression, and health. Dr. Wilson examines LGBTQ economic instabilities and involvement with systems of care and criminalization, with a focus on the ways racialization, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression play a role in creating disproportionality and disparities. 

Accessibility

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• Center for Racial Justice
• Center for Racial Justice Visiting Fellows
• Gender race and ethnicity
• sexuality and gender
• racial justice
• racial justice in practice
• Analytic methods