The SMUS Conference Botswana preliminary Program features dates and time for various streams of sessions, presenters and keynotes. The updated version will be made available towards the beginning of the conference.
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Keynote 1 – Prof. Dr. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni – Decolonization as Method
Day 1: Thursday 23 September 2021
Time (CAT): 1200 -1300
Keynote 2 -Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wolfang Aschauer: Quantitative Cross – Cultural Research
Day 2: Friday 24 September 2021
Time (CAT): 0830 – 0930
Keynote 3 – Prof. Bagele Chilisa: Indigenous Research Methods and Spatial Methods in Africa
Day 2: Friday 24 September 2021
Time (CAT): 1200 – 1300
Keynote 4 – Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rosenthal: Biographical Research in Africa
Day 3: Saturday 25 September 2021
Time (CAT): 1230 – 1330
Time specified in this program refer to the Central African Time (CAT) zone. Please find the link for time zone converter HERE.
Session 2:Decolonizing social science methodology – Overcoming
positivism and constructivism
1400 – 1600
Session 1:Decolonizing social science methodology – Towards African
epistemologies
1630 – 1830
Session 15:Art and design based-research, cross-disciplinary approaches for material knowledge production
1400 – 1600
Session 24:Digital Methods in Action: Use, Challenges and Prospects
1400 – 1600
Session 25:Researching Climate Change Communication: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era
1630 – 1830
Session 27 (1):Methods in Food Studies Research
1400 – 1600
Session 27 (2):Methods in Food Studies Research
1630 – 1830
Session 33:Feminist Methodologies
1000 – 1130
Session 5:Critical Conversations on Bagele Chilisa’s Indigenous Research Methodologies
1400 – 1600
Session 3:Decolonizing Methodologies and Epistemologies: Discourse Analysis and Sociology of Knowledge
1630 – 1830
Session 14:Methods of Architectural Research
1000 – 1130
Session 31:Towards Co-producing Knowledge and Teaching Methodologies in Applied Urban Settings
1400 – 1600
Session 34:Quantitative Methods of Spatial Analysis
1000 – 1130
Session 23:Assessing the Quality of Data Survey
1400 – 1630
Session 22:Survey Data Quality in Interviewer-Administered Surveys in LMIC Contexts
1630 – 1830
Session 26:Money and Digitalisation in the Global South
1000 – 1130
Session 32:Methods for Health, Disabilities and Childhood Studies
1400 – 1600
Session 29:Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas of Social Research in Violent Conflict Situations
1630 – 1830
Session 11:Between the Structural and the Everyday: Bridging Macro and Micro Perspectives in Comparative Urban Research
0800 – 0930
Session 12:Methodologies for the Investigation Spatial Transformation Processes
1000 – 1200
Session 6:Socio-Spatial Research in Post-colonial States: Urban and Political Economy Perspectives
1430 – 1630
Session 30:Transdisciplinary or Collaborative? Lab Approaches and their Influence on Participatory and Action Research Methods
0800 – 0930
Session 19:The Role of interactions between scholars and stakeholders in creating rigorous and relevant research for urban sustainability
1000 – 1200
Session 20:Knowledge creation in informal settlements: The process, ethics and outputs of co-productive and community-led research Methods
1430 – 1630
Session 35:Mixed Methods
1000 – 1200
No sessions for Stream D
Day 3: Saturday 25 September 2021
Closing lecture: Methodological challenges for sustainable public spaces in contemporary Brazil – Fraya Frehse
1700 -1900 (CAT)