The UNIC session at EUR

Recently the EUR-UNIC team - Yara van Holten , Samira Abbadi , Grace Yano , Raghav Krish , Marketa Geerts , and Peter Scholten - and I organized a session to present what UNIC is doing and where skilled humans and their practice can help us. Ginie Servant-Miklos , Giuseppe 'Joe' B. , Klaus Heine , and Rene A.G. Teunissen talked about their current work with UNIC.?

I had a chat with Alessandro Mazzola. Alessandro is a Post-Doc Researcher Fellow at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) at the Université de Liège .

Reminders for the next session:?

-?? the importance of the agenda. It is fundamental to have a clear goal in mind to be delivered during the event. I clearly stated it at the beginning of our session (expectations are a bummer). Allowing the space for other opinions and bodies is an art. A question like why do you think what you are saying fits in this conversation? helped me bring back the focus.

-?? ?? ???? ?? ?? asking direct questions to the audience. Break some ice and scan the audience with some open questions like In which department do you work? and what do you know about engaged research in one sentence? These questions helped me understand the audience and what is already known.?

-?? have some backup questions ready. I always have some backup questions that I prepared beforehand in case I’m blanking. For this session I had What are the three funding blocks of engaged research for you? and What would you have liked to know at the beginning when you start practicing engaged research?

What I learned in this session is that engaged research is based on communication, balancing multiple spaces with multiple opinions while being output-driven and clear on what to expect from each other. Here you find the UNIC definition of engaged research.

Alessandro was a joy to have a chat with you! I hope to see other familiar faces at the next UNIC session in June.

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