Dr Rebecca Sutton selected for UK-Canada Knowledge Frontiers Symposium
Sun 29 November 2020
Dr Rebecca Sutton, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Edinburgh Law School, has been selected to participate in the 2020 UK-Canada Knowledge Frontiers Symposium on security hosted by CIFAR (a Canadian based global research organization) and the British Academy.
Taking place in November and December 2020, the virtual symposium aims to draw on the insights of the humanities and social sciences to explore varied understandings and experiences of security, and how security can be and has been conceptualised, represented, lived and addressed.
Rebecca’s main contribution to the symposium will be to present and discuss a ‘participatory action research’ project she is engaged in with young Rohingya researchers living in Cox’s Bazar camps in Bangladesh. This project positions displaced youth as the knowledge producers, supporting them to develop their own research projects on peace, justice and security and to gather evidence of Rohingya community perspectives on the Covid-19 lockdown in the camps. Drawing on this case study, Rebecca will articulate questions about who gets to define ‘security’, and ‘justice’, and who listens when unconventional or non-traditional actors speak on these important topics. Finally Rebecca plans to engage Symposium members in conversations about the meta-issue of Early Career Researcher insecurity, a phenomenon which impacts the research agendas and productivity of precarious scholars globally.
The UK-Canada Knowledge Frontiers Symposium has been established to develop and strengthen international engagement and collaboration between early career researchers based in Canada and the United Kingdom from a broad range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. It is part of a wider series of symposia supporting the development of the next generation of talent within the social sciences and the humanities, and promoting interdisciplinary and international research collaboration.