Concerning both, the different interests and involvements of many stakeholders, the challenge of taking a double role as a researcher and colleague at the same time, keeping a scientific distance as well as dealing with ethical and organizational constraints need to be acknowledged while conducting research in this setup. Candidate in industry in general, and within the investigated organization in particular, creates a special situation of sitting at the fence between academia and industry.
She has conducted audiovisual research in the US-Mexico borderlands, El Salvador, Uruguay, Cuba and Ireland, and taught digital storytelling in collaboration with university, non-governmental and governmental agencies including the Dublin City Council, the Forum on Migration and Communications, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (DEZA/EDA).ĭesign:transfer & University of Wuppertalįrom 2015–2018 I conducted my doctoral research at the headquarter of the world’s biggest automotive manufacturer in Germany, in order to inquire how design practices and the role of designers are challenged or reframed inside one large organization.īeing employed as a Ph.D. Alexandra has designed and facilitated participatory media research centering audiovisual production as a means of engaged scholarship. She is the first-place recipient of the 2018 Ethnographic Poetry Prize awarded by the American Anthropological Association. She holds a PhD from the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. As the director, instructor and lead researcher of this project, Darcy will discuss the practice elements of her engaged scholarship.ĭarcy Alexandra is assistant researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern where she specializes in co-creative ethnographic practices and audiovisual anthropology.
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Both series have screened before diverse audiences, at public forums on asylum policy and migrant rights, the Irish Film Institute (IFI), the Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival and at scholarly conferences in Europe and the Americas. Engaging with creative writing, photography and animation, research participants–seven woman and six men from African, Asian, and Eastern European countries–co-created two series of short, broadcast-quality, documentary essays. The research aimed to develop an exploratory and critical practice of inquiry that not only responded to the ethical complexities of research with refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants, but also developed skills for research participants to interpret, analyze and document their experiences as newcomers. To develop a shared anthropological practice and learn about irregular migration in Ireland, Darcy Alexandra designed and taught longitudinal photofilm seminars with research participants at the Dublin Institute of Technology’s media lab. Engaged Scholarship through Co-Creative Practice
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