Welcome to today’s Reconcile Journal digest. I’m so glad you’re here.
This week, we have a roundup of comments taken directly from the conversations in our last workshop. We met last month to consider what psychological safety might mean for researchers & did a deep dive into ‘the future’: what it looks like, who gets to decide, and how we might decolonise it so we can actually dream. Then, we did just that - used our imaginations to dream up an alternative future for us as researchers. It was an honest, safe space, and so much insight came out of it!
James Barnor ‘Self-portrait with a store assistant at the West African Drug Company’ (1952)
Below, you will find our answers to some very simple questions:
can we feel safe in our research practices?
what is safety in our context?
what do we need to make it happen?
some reflective questions to take away
How do you define safety in your research, creative or personal practice? How do we make it safer? What would you create if you could operate from a place of safety?
until next time
Amberlee from Reconcile Journal
