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Explore interdisciplinary boundaries, creative partnerships, and working interculturally in academia. Learn how collaboration leads to creative solutions, challenges, and impactful knowledge exchange. Discover how Future Memory in Red Road project defied norms and engaged in unconventional academic practices.
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Creative approaches to exchange across (academic) structures and cultures Rebecca Kay GRAMNet co-convenor Professor of Russian Gender Studies
Working across: • ‘Disciplinary’ boundaries within academia: • Arts • Social Science • ‘Hard’ Sciences • Academic, artistic, practitioner, policy structures • ‘impact’ and knowledge exchange • Partnership and creative collaborations
Cultures at Work and working Interculturally • Belief systems • Languages • Timescales • Priorities and foci • Recognising Power • Building trust • Working relationally
Two examples • Collaborative Masters Projects • Future Memory in Red Road
Collaborative Masters Projects • It all started with a ‘problem’ • Creative solutions: • Reversing the decision making in project design • Supporting the research process in both academic and practical terms • Creative outputs and communicating findings for different audiences • Challenges of different ways of thinking and working
Future memory in Red Road • It all started with ‘fun’, ‘laughter’ and ‘ticks in boxes’ • Relationships as a catalyst to collaboration • Chance meetings and going with the flow • Taking risks, and taking things on trust • Thinking big: the biggest musical instrument in Europe • Getting clever with institutions and their structures: Glasgow University KE fund; Safedem; St Martha’s; Glasgow Housing Association;