Research on the line: How to do critical social science in times of impact?

This roundtable will take stock of CCIG's long commitment to put social sciences on the line and will open discussions on how to do critical social science in the current funding landscape and a pressing impact agenda.

The roundtable is an occasion to discuss and conceptualise our academic commitment to critical research and creating  possibilities for critique, social justice and positive social change in times of crises and intensified governmental instrumentalisation of research.

Key questions the interventions will reflect on are:

• Is critical social science put on the line today? If so, how should we in CCIG respond?
• What can  critical social science research today mean?
• Can CCIG and the Open University more generally still be a place for societal and political critique in light of funding and impact demands?
• How can CCIG research carry the OU mission to open social and political limits into the next decade?

The roundtable will be followed by a reception.

Further details to come.