As a new initiative, Danida Fellowship Centre is hosting a two-day seminar on 28 – 29 March 2023, under a concept we call “Science Engagement Days”.
The overarching theme for the 2023 Science Engagement Days will be Equitable Partnerships in development research projects.
Successful development research addresses shared global challenges. However, collaboration alone does not ensure equity in the partnership. Lopsided power relations produce structural inequalities: what are these contemporary dynamics of inequalities between the South and the North? Why does it matter? How can we play a role in tackling these issues?
Within the scope of the theme, four sub-themes will form the framework for parallel sessions:
- Equality in authorship: Publications/dissemination and supporting knowledge from the south.
- Setting the research agenda – Choosing a research problem, methods, and theories in ways that ensure equitable partnerships
- Financing and institutional set-up – also linked to the frameworks set by funders.
- Mutual learning – how to ensure – and critically assess the capacity building concept.
Here you can find the tentative programme:
27 March 2023
| 27.03.2023 |
| 15.00 onwards |
Arrivals |
TCDC |
All |
| 15.00 – 18.00 |
Check in and information to participants about dinner |
TCDC |
All |
| 18.30 |
Welcome dinner. Dinner is provided and covered by DFC, at ones own leisure. |
TCDC |
All |
28 March 2023
| 28.03.2023 |
| 7.00 – 8.30 |
Breakfast |
Dining Hall |
All |
| 8.30 – 8.45 |
Welcome and introduction to the seminar and the participants, Vibeke Quaade, Senior Communications Consultant and Lars Arne Jensen, Research Programme Manager |
Conference venue / Pan Africa Hall |
All |
| 8:45 – 10.00 |
Joint session
Restructuring Development Research Partnerships in North-South Relations: Funding and Institutional Imperatives
by Kwaku Danso, Research Fellow and Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC).
The messy practice of decolonizing a concept – Everyday humanitarianism in Tanzania
by Consolata Sulley, Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania.
Moderators:
Helene Kyed, Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies
Nsubili Isaga, Director of Quality assurance Mzumbe University |
Conference venue |
All |
| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Welcome and introduction to MS TCDC: Makena Mwobobia, Executive Director MS TCDC |
Conference venue /Pan Africa Hall |
All |
| 10:30 – 11.00 |
Tea/coffee break and finding the parallel sessions |
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| 11:00 – 12:00 |
Parallel sessions – Kick-off and discussions |
Meeting rooms |
Groups |
| 12:30 – 13.30 |
Lunch available |
Dining Hall |
All |
| 13.30 – 16:00 |
Parallel sessions continued |
Meeting rooms |
Groups |
| 16.00 – 17:15
Tea/Coffee Break |
Presentations from subgroups and plenary discussions/input
Moderators: Helene Kyed and Nsubili Isaga |
Conference venue / Pan Africa Hall |
All |
| 17:15 – 17:30 |
End of Day |
BBQ Dinner |
All |
| 19:00 |
Dinner available |
BBQ Dinner |
All |
29 March 2023
| 29.03.2023 |
| 7.00 – 8.30 |
Breakfast available |
Dining Hall |
All |
| 8.30 – 9.45 |
Welcome Day 2
Joint session
Building Equitable Partnerships in a Context of Hierarchical Knowledge Systems
by Sarah Ssali, Associate Professor and Dean of the School of Gender Studies at Makerere University, Uganda.
Equitable research partnerships: A view from the global North
by Charles Hunt, Associate Professor in the School of Global, Urban & Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne and Senior Fellow at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research in New York
Moderators: Helene Kyed and Nsubili Isaga |
Conference venue / Pan Africa Hall |
All |
| 9.45 – 10.00
Tea/coffee break |
Finding the parallel sessions, check out (if you are leaving today) |
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| 10.00 – 12.00 |
Parallel sessions – free choice of subtheme |
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Groups |
| 12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch available |
Dining Hall |
All |
| 13.30 – 15.00 |
Parallel sessions continued – including final recommendations in writing |
Meeting rooms |
Groups |
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| 15.00 – 16.30
Tea/coffee break |
Closing plenary
Presentations from each group
Moderators: Helene Kyed and Nsubili Isaga |
Conference venue |
All |
| 16:30 – onwards |
Departures |
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