UNIID: Future Research themes and Research Network

Jan 9th UNSAID JNU

IID Program Implementation Plan

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Social economy and innovation

• Collectives• social enterprises• membership-based

organizations• linking formal and

informal economy• Innovation that

improve the live os marginal people

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Indian themes on UNIID

• University as a site for epistemic exchange– Knowledge, memories and obsolescence– Integrating epistemology, translation and pedagogy– Exploring epistemology of violence and war– Livelihood of marginalized groups: varieties of

marginality, migratory flows– Question of translation: translation, mediation,

exchange (oral, textual, visual and digital)– Recovering informal spaces of play and creativity– Recovering tacit knowledge

Research questions??

• How can universities prioritize and institutionalize IID?

• What strategies can be used by universities to improve livelihoods?

• Sectoral issues – renewable energy, sustainable agriculture etc….

Operational ideas…?

• Curriculum Development to include courses towards/ on SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY with projects on INNOVATION & INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE

• Attitudinal and value change programs (e.g. hands and heads)

• Problem-solving research through collaboration with communities

• Education for building leadership among the socially excluded (marginalized groups, women)

Open Discussion

• Future Research Themes on UNIID• Research Network on UNIID