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Co-operative research and research co-operatives

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posted on 2020-02-20, 11:53 authored by Thomas Swann
Offering a proposal for how the gap in discussions of co-operative Higher Education around research can be bridged, Swann suggests a broad framework for a research co-operative that would be able to provide an institutional framework for supporting and funding academic research. This chapter explores co-production as one approach to research that draws implicitly on core co-operative values, such as democracy, equality, equity and solidarity, and highlights the challenges faced in neoliberal Higher Education to co-produced research. Discussing a research co-operative as a potential response to these challenges, Swann touches on a number of existing examples of platforms that in one way or another mirror the functions we might want to see in a research co-operative. This chapter also identifies recent developments in platform co-operativism as of potential importance to making the idea of a research co-operative a reality in the short, medium and long term. At its heart is a democratization of epistemology.

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School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Politics and International Studies

Published in

Reclaiming the University for the Public Good: Experiments and Futures in Co-operative Higher Education

Pages

185 - 204

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© The Author

Publication date

2019-12-12

Copyright date

2019

ISBN

9783030216245; 9783030216252

Book series

Palgrave Critical University Studies

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Malcolm Noble; Cilla Ross

Depositor

Dr Thomas Swann. Deposit date: 18 February 2020

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