Workshop

Master Class Re-making 'quality'within the social sciences

In this Master Class Alan Irwin will lead a discussion on how PhD students and postdocs at WASS negotiate the relationship between academic quality and larger societal value in their work. In what has become known as the ‘rigour-relevance’ debate Alan Irwin will explore with PhD students what dominant frameworks, often based on peer based articles, include and what they omit. Notions of responsibility, public value, cognitive justice and public engagement provide alternative, but characteristically neglected, means of (re-)framing quality in this context.

Organised by Communication, Philosopy and Technology
Date

Mon 4 March 2019 14:30 to 16:30

Venue Leeuwenborch, building number 201
Hollandseweg 1
201
6706 KN Wageningen
+31 (0)317 48 36 39
Room C62

As preparation students are asked:

  • to read in advance Alan Irwin’s paper Re-making ‘quality’ within the social sciences: The debate over rigour and relevance in the modern business school, following this link;
  • to prepare a half a page on how they see the relationship between ‘rigour and relevance’ in their own research. Are they the same, different, overlapping, irrelevant or what?


This will be used as the basis for an interactive discussion.

For registration, send an e-mail to wass@wur.nl  

Please note places are limited.