Advancing Research to Promote Immigrant and Student Equity:
A Professional Development Workshop
UC Irvine
November 22-23, 2019
UC PromISE invites UC and CSU scholars conducting research on undocumented immigrants, mixed-status families, and other liminally legal communities to apply for our upcoming professional development workshop: Advancing Research to Promote Immigrant and Student Equity.
The workshop will support scholars in reflecting on ways to strengthen their research and its impacts. The first day will feature panels and discussions on project development, research practices, and communicating findings. Topics include: designing and conducting research with empirical and policy implications, building effective community-based research collaborations, and strategies for broadly disseminating research findings and increasing their impact on public conversations and in communities.
Attendees are invited to present research ideas or work-in-progress at a roundtable session. Attendees may also apply to participate in a half-day training session the following day when representatives from the Scholar Strategy Network will provide hands-on training on authoring op-ed and policy briefs.
Applicants must be graduate students (MA, MEd, PhD, EdD, JD etc), post-doctoral scholars, or faculty members affiliated with a University of California or California State University campus.
***Travel funding is available.***
Preliminary Agenda (presenters will be updated as they are confirmed)
9:00 Registration and continental breakfast
9:30 Welcome
9:40 On Being Studied: A Panel Discussion with Undocumented Student Services Staff and Students
A panel of undocumented student services staff and students will discuss their experiences working with researchers. They will explore both positive and negative experiences to encourage the audience think about how they approach participants and collaborators.
Elisabet Barrios Mateo (UC Irvine), Angela Chen (UC Irvine), Ana Coria (UC Riverside), Josefina Flores Morales (UCLA), Oscar Teran (UCI), Diana Valdivia (UC Santa Barbara)
10:45 Breakout Session I
Imagining Work: A Panel of Model Projects
Scholars will present an overview of their projects to provide insight on how to construct community-based and/or policy-relevant projects.
Karina Chavarria (CSU Channel Islands), May Sudhinaraset (UC Los Angeles)
Research Practices: Building and Managing Mutually Productive Collaborations
Researchers and collaborators will discuss how they have established, sustained, and continued collaborations. They will explore how to manage relationships, describe their projects and how each party shaped and benefitted, and share project outcomes.
Cecilia Ayón (UC Riverside), Javier Hernandez (Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice), Najayra Valdovinos Soto (Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Collective), Steve McKay (UC Santa Cruz), Leslie Lopez (UC Santa Cruz), Joanna Perez (CSU Dominguez Hills)
Building Your Public Brand: Traditional and Social Media Strategies
Participants will learn how to leverage the media to promote their research and start building their public brand. Discussion will include managing the potential backlash for public engagement.
Danielle Kim (Scholar Strategy Network)
12:00 Lunch
1:15 Breakout Session II
Research Practices: Reflecting on Positionality
A panel will feature scholars with varying levels and types of insider-outsider status. They will briefly discuss how they negotiate their positionality. Attendees will then break out for facilitated small-group discussions of positionality-related issues.
Leisy Abrego (UC Los Angeles), San Juanita Garcia (UC Santa Barbara), Jennifer Nájera (UC Riverside), Heidy Sarabia (CSU Sacramento), Jose Torres (UC Irvine)
Communicating Findings: Ways to Influence Public Conversation
Scholars will discuss the range of ways that they have drawn on their research and/or scholarly knowledge to influence public conversation. Participants span the range of graduate students to full professors. Modes may include op-eds, policy reports, and news interviews.
Alein Haro (UC Berkeley), Nicole Novak (University of Iowa), Gilda Ochoa (Pomona College), Karthick Ramakirshnan (UC Riverside), Tom Wong (UC San Diego)
Communicating Findings: In the Community
Scholars will discuss the range of ways that they have drawn on their research and/or scholarly knowledge to support the communities they work with. Topics include providing expert testimony for asylum claims and deportation relief, and supporting community partners’ needs.
Marisol Clark-Ibáñez (CSU San Marcos), Laura E. Enriquez (UC Irvine), Mirian Martinez Aranda (UC Los Angeles), Cecilia Menjívar (UC Los Angeles), Martha Morales Hernandez (UC Irvine)
2:45 Breakout Session III
Attendee Roundtable Presentations
Attendees will be able to apply to present on their work in progress to receive feedback.
Responsible Academic Writing
A group of scholars will briefly discuss how they negotiate writing and then open it up for discussion. Potential topics include: balancing discussions of struggle and resilience, thinking about how findings can be used against a community, maintaining confidentiality, and balancing activist and academic voice.
Edelina Burciaga (University of Colorado – Denver), Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales (University of San Francisco), Marla Ramírez (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Carolina Valdivia (Harvard University)
4:00 Closing Reception
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