This seminar follows on from a very successful inaugural conference held at The University of Trinidad and Tobago in September 2018. The seminar will continue to create opportunities for academics to discuss and debate current research projects using Caribbean research methodologies, the challenges to developing and integrating the use of Caribbean research approaches in academia, and creating, managing and sustaining a space for Caribbean research methodologies.

This seminar aims to bring together researchers, academics, service and field workers, and policy analysts from a range of disciplines and sectors to share knowledge, experiences, developments and learning on research approaches, guiding worldviews or contextual factors that are specific to the Caribbean region. The seminar is intended to inspire critical thinking and discourse on shifting from a decolonizing framework to an affirming approach to developing, embracing and utilizing Caribbean ways of knowing.

Conference streams

1. Affirming pedagogies in the Caribbean: our ways of being, knowing, teaching and learning

2. Linkages and solidarities in culturally affirming research around the world: Indigenous and local research in Africa, America, the Pacific and other regions

3. Dissemination of research: ensuring access to Caribbean methodologies and research