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Mia Perry

Mia Perry. England / Ireland / Russia / Canada / Scotland. Snr Lecturer: Education and Arts with Adults, Communities, and Youth, School of Education, College of Social Sciences. Network Coordinator: Sustainable Futures in Africa. Sustainable Futures in Africa Network.

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Mia Perry

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  1. Mia Perry England / Ireland/ Russia / Canada / Scotland Snr Lecturer: Education and Arts with Adults, Communities, and Youth, School of Education, College of Social Sciences Network Coordinator: Sustainable Futures in Africa

  2. Sustainable Futures in Africa Network • the relationship between social, cultural, and ecological factors in sustainability through interdisciplinary research initiatives • opportunities in the disparities between perspectives and ways of being and knowing in the global north and the global south inherent in international collaborations and global endeavors • shaping and supporting new opportunities for impact and inquiry that address locally-articulated, socio-ecological challenges

  3. How can we work togetherdifferently?

  4. Interdisciplinary The SFA Network brings together environmental and social scientists in community and public pedagogies to address the knowledge implementation gap. Engineering Education Geographical and Earth Sciences Water resources and management; soil classification and preservation Co-construction of knowledge with communities; culturally responsive engagements Climate change, land degradation and deforestation, geothermal energy usage Arts and Culture Health Physics Investigating the relationship between arts and cultural practices and Socioecological sustainability One Health, public health and culturally specific understandings of health and well being Multiple knowledges and tools of engagement with lived realities

  5. Intersectoral The SFA Network brings together academics, artists, civil society organisations, industry, public services, and communities Academia Civil Society Organisations/ NGOs Artists Industry Public Services Communities

  6. The SFA Network brings together partners from Uganda, Botswana, Malawi, Nigeria, and Scotland International • NGO/CSO/Arts Organisations • Uganda • Apala Widows and Orphanage Centre • 32 degrees Uganda • Nigeria • Women’s Environmental Program • Botswana • Ngamiland District CBNRM Forum • Malawi • Art House Africa • Abundance • Arts and Global Health Centre • Educational Institutions • Obafemi Awolowo University • University of Botswana • Makerere University, Uganda • University of Malawi • Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources • University of Glasgow

  7. Methodology = Research Question(s) + Theoretical lens + Method(s) + (methods of) Analysis + Findings/representation

  8. How?Methodologies of engagement ….. • Partnership and relationships across differences • Across the network with colleagues, communities, and stake holders • Meetings, phone calls, whatsapp conversations, resource sharing, checking in, visiting, exchanging gifts, learning about each other, making personal investments • Context, self, and subject knowledge • expertise • Knowing yourself, understanding your past, your inheritance, your inclinations and perspectives; knowing about the context in which you will work, and knowing your limitations • A practice of reflexivity • Relating to other knowledges, perspectives, cultures, practices • A practice of un-knowing (in the spaces in-between known entities) • Listening and not-knowing the answer • A practice of sustaining and persisting

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