Over the course of my IPS Fellowship at the Huntington Library, I had been in contact with my awarding body the Arts and Humanities Research Council. They were keen to see how the project was progressing and hear my experiences of researching abroad. My contact – the wonderfully helpful Allie Brown – expressly approved and encouraged the writing of this blog, particularly, I think because my research and the IPS is visible! On my return, I was asked to contribute to the AHRC’s “Research Beyond Borders” Blog to coincide with the announcement of the newly awarded IPS Fellowships. I was extremely fortunate to have had such a positive experience at the Huntington so I was very excited to be asked to write about it all, but it was definitely hard condensing such a huge trip.
Well, here it is:
I will also be talking about the IPS and the politics of co-production in research at the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual International Conference 2014:
Getting out of the armchair: Tales of mobilisation and co-production from a Research Fellow at the Huntington Library, California
Natalie Cox (University of Warwick)
This paper engages with the critical issues facing postgraduate researchers of working with and between multiple institutions to (co)produce research. It offers a personal reflection from an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Student attached to the RGS, who undertook a three month Research Fellowship at the Huntington Library as part of the AHRC’s International Placement Scheme (IPS, 2013-14). This tale of mobilising a project on stationary nineteenth-century ‘armchair geographers’ communicates the practical politics of the IPS and explores how to navigate discrete research agendas across space, as the researcher becomes the point of connection in these collaborative and co-produced networks.
Session: Co-production and postgraduate research: Presentation and Discussion Session
Wednesday 27 August 2014
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