Programme: Science Engagement Days 27, 28 & 29 March 2023

Published

December 19, 2022

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
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)
10.00 – 12.00	Parallel sessions – free choice of subtheme		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
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