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Publications and Outputs
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- Please read here for our contextual policy work and our expertise with the United Nations OHCHR’s Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (WGEPAD)
Each of our projects will have impact milestones designed to engage with different stakeholders at defined points in their research-cycles.
Our community reporting matrix (see Publications and Outputs, above) will underpin the following milestones:
Steering Group
We intend to host two steering group meetings a year, one in Manchester and the other in London (reflecting the geographical spread of our projects). The stakeholders in this group will be representatives of the projects taking part in this research programme. The group will comprise a mix of researchers and community representatives involved in the various research projects in the programme. The purpose of this group will be to give everyone an opportunity to gain an overview of all the research projects and how they fit into the programme since our research falls within the remit of the International Decade for People of African Descent. The group will also create a forum where we will report on the progress of our projects, share experiences and support each other in our projects. This will be especially important in the planning of impact strategies with local, regional, national and international powerbrokers.*1 Since each stakeholder in the group represents a constituency of wider stakeholders directly involved in the research, the group will publish biannual newsletters*2 that will give updates of research progress and forthcoming public engagement events (‘community seminars’), which will then be circulated widely across the associated networks of group members.
In terms of our international powerbrokers, in years 4 and 5 of the programme, we will also use the steering group to advise on local data-monitoring (case studies) collected from previous newsletters*3 that will relate to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 3, 4, 8, 10.*4 We will also support each project representative to produce draft policy documents or UN Shadow reports. These reports will also be relevant to international law and policy impact that will emerge from the steering group project newsletters (reports, see also community seminar deliverables). Our draft policy documents will be significant because during the research programme, the UK will be participating in the following treaties below and through our current work with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), we will have opportunities to present our draft policy documents (shadow reports) at following events:
- The OHCHR Universal Periodic Review (UPR) that is a unique process, which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States.
- The OHCHR Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by its States parties.
- The OHCHR The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State parties.
- The OHCHR The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by its State parties.
- The OHCHR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is an international human rights treaty adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 1966. It is one of the two treaties that give legal force to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (the other being the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, ICESCR).
Deliverables: Newsletters. Draft Policy Documents/ UN Shadow reports Stakeholders: wider Critical Race and Ethnicity Research community
*1 Local and regional: Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership and Manchester City Council, National: Department for Education and Home Office, International: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
*2 Newsletters – We would like to trial the use of ‘zines’ (homemade magazines) (Desyllas & Sinclair, 2014) as a creative way of presenting evaluative data that will, for our meetings, generate rich discussion around research progress and challenges. We intend to theme the zines according to our chosen SDGs. We also intend to record the discussions about the zines to help create content for our Youtube channel (see section: Radio/Broadcast Publicity/blogsite and social media). The collection and publication of individual zines from each steering meeting and corresponding Youtube films will form what we are calling the Newsletters for wider stakeholder distribution and engagement.
*3 We will reference our Newsletter-case studies around a community reporting matrix based on the data sets below:
UK Plans for SDGs – Parliamentary Report
Bond Analysis of SDG implementation
SDG Indicators and Targets, UK
The Sustainable Development Goals and LGBT Inclusion (Stonewall International)
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SDG 3 – Health
SDG 4 – Education
SDG 8 – Economic Growth
SDG 10 – Inequality
MMU Conferences
We will also be taking part in MMU’s annual FRIHSC (Faculty Research In High Summer Conference). This will give our researchers and community partners the opportunity to present their work to a wider academic audience. This will also be a good time to engage with work produced more widely within the faculty of health social care and psychology, in so doing encouraging the potential development of an even wider academic network of interdisciplinary thinking.
Deliverables: Conference papers, Journal papers. Stakeholders: wider MMU research community
Radio/Broadcast Publicity/blogsite and social media
These radio broadcast events will have a dual function. Firstly, they will promote the ‘community seminars’ that will be taking place to showcase and introduce our research to the public more widely. Our researchers will appear on local internet or local BBC shows to talk about their work and its relevance to the wider community. In Manchester, we have developed relationships with the internet radio show, searchengine365 and BBC Manchester’s The People, where we have already spoken at length about our work. However, although we hope to build on these existing broadcast relationships in Manchester we also hope to extend our broadcast relationships, geographically, to reflect the wider geographical spread of our projects. We have specifically budgeted for three radio campaigns and advertisements of our research. Secondly, we hope that the broadcast events and our use of our blogsite and other social media channels will kick-start discussion and debate about our research with the wider community, both locally and (inter)nationally. To amplify our use of social media we intend to work with a local production company called Troubadour Cultural Heritage Foundation to help us make short films (trailers) about our research to form a Youtube Channel for the programme. It is intended that our curated YouTube channel will act as a springboard for further commissioning opportunities with mainstream broadcasters, throughout the programme’s lifetime. Even though we have programmed the use of social media to coincide specifically with the broadcast and ‘community seminars’, we would also be encouraging our researchers and community partners to embed the use of social media in their projects as a means of disseminating their work to wider audiences.
Deliverables: podcast, blogsite, archive of social media outputs, short films, Youtube Channel. Stakeholders: general public
Community Seminars
Although named ‘community seminars’ these events will remain flexible in format and will range in form from workshops, lectures, public consultation groups, conferences, open days, to training sessions. In short, these public-facing events will be tailored to fit each researcher’s ideas for public engagement, as they relate to their work. We have programmed and budgeted for three 6hr slots in each research year and for each slot to be promoted by our radio broadcasts and social media channels. However, we anticipate that this will be very much a moveable feast and have allowed for up to six 3hr slots to be organised throughout the year. We feel that this will give the maximum flexibility to organise both large and small-scale events depending on the researchers’ ideas. Although our radio broadcast slots will be less flexible in terms of numbers (i.e. we have budgeted for only three radio broadcast campaigns a year), we will be able to be both proactive and reactive in our use of social media to promote our events.
Deliverables: Blog posts, Event-Storifies, papers, book chapters, Draft Policy Documents/ UN Shadow reports, consultation papers. Stakeholders: mixed – general public/wider local communities/academic/civil society/local, regional and national government, international governmental bodies etc
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