Decolonizing Swiss Research Partnerships
Decolonising North-South Collaborative Research
In order to continue strengthening North-South research collaboration, persistent challenges related to (de)colonisation for North-South research collaboration need to be identified. With this project, the GRP-Alliance collaborated with Ama Asantewah, Mariah Ngutu and Ravaka Andriamihaja to analyze the current state of North-South research collaboration from a decolonizing perspective, define characteristics of a decolonized North-South research collaboration and develop tools to support decolonization of North-South research collaborations.
The project resulted in the publication of a website on decolonizing global research collaborations:
In 2023 our annual conference focused on processes of decolonizing research partnerships. During the conference we discussed:
- What does it mean to decolonize research collaborations?
- What is needed to decolonize Swiss research collaborations?
- What can we do to decolonize research, teaching and collaborations?
The conference consisted of two parts: a series of online workshops in the period of April 19- May 31 and the conference in Bern on May 5.
In the year 2022 Dr Ravaka Andriamihaja conducted several workshops and interviews on decolonizing research collaborations. As part of the KFPE annual conference, a first workshop took place on 10 June 2022 with 42 participants. At the Swiss Researching Africa Days at the end of October 2022, we led a panel on this topic.
Related publications by members of the project team on the topic
Contact
SCNAT
Swiss Alliance for Global Research Partnerships (GRP-Alliance)
House of Academies
PO Box
3001 Bern
Switzerland
Project Team
Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, University of Ghana
Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi
Affiliated researcher at the ESSA-Forêts Mention Foresterie et Environnement de l'Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d'Antananarivo – MADAGASCAR
Project supervision
Senior Lecturer, NADEL, ETH Zurich
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