About this event
The CareVisions research project, ISS21, University College Cork invites you to an online seminar: Relational research and producing knowledge about care.
Speaker: Dr Lizzie Ward, Principal Research Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Brighton (UK)
Discussant: Dr Pauline Cullen, Associate Professor Sociology, Maynooth University
When: Monday 25th April 2022, 15:00-16:30
Where: Online seminar on MS Teams
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Abstract: This seminar considers how knowledge about care is produced. Within care ethics the ‘epistemological dimension’ of care is recognised in the concept of ‘responsiveness’ in which attention to the care-receiver’s experience informs the care process at the micro level. But most knowledge about care is produced without the inclusion of care-receivers and without regard to their lived experiences of care. Within policy and practice, where marketized care systems are informed by neoliberalism, ‘knowledge’ about care is dominated by managerial concerns about care provision using audit and measurement of time and task approaches where care provided in measurable units (the 15 minute care calls). These approaches exclude lived experiences of what it is like to need care, to ‘do’ care – the relationships and processes that contribute to what ‘care’ is. Relational research practice is grounded in ethical imperatives for inclusive research but moreover it enables co-produced knowledge about care based on lived experiences that can directly challenge the underpinning assumptions of a neoliberal framework of marketized care.
Please note this seminar will be recorded as part of the CareVisions seminar series and will be made available online. By attending the meeting you are consenting to being recorded.
Contact details: If you have any queries about this event, please contact the CareVisions Team at: carevisions@ucc.ie.