Civil Society, Development, Democracy Working Beyond Disciplines 2019

1. Civil Society, Development, Democracy Working Beyond Disciplines 2019

2. CDD pathway operates across five of the White Rose universities • Matt Bishop (Sheffield) m.bishop@sheffield.ac.uk • Elspeth Robson (Hull)  Elspeth Robson E.Robson@hull.ac.uk • ViktoriaSpaiser (Leeds) Victoria Spaiserv.spaiser@leeds.ac.uk • Richard White (Sheffield Hallam) Richard White richard.white@shu.ac.uk • Liam Clegg (York) Liam Clegg liam.clegg@york.ac.uk Introduction • Our approach is interdisciplinary and open-ended (and open-minded) • How systems of governance – in both rich and poor places – are evolving in conditions of crisis • Within that, we locate civil society: i.e. how individuals, families, communities and societies as a whole shape and are shaped by broad processes of power and global political change • We consider the nature and resilience of democracy, the extent to which particular forms of governance are legitimate, and how citizenship is exercised • How are these issues mediated by patterns of inequality; uneven development; policy agendas? • Today’s agenda • 13.15- Grand Challenges in CDD – open discussion • 13.35 - Doing interdisciplinary work: a focus on “populism” • 14.25 – Coffee Break (10 mins) • 14.35 – Your research and interdisciplinarity • 15.20 – What use is interdisciplinarity in the “real world”? • 15.45 – Wrap up (buses leave at 16.00)

3. What is a “grand challenge” and why is it worth thinking in this way? • How did you find this morning’s session, and what did you take from it in terms of doing interdisciplinary grand challenge-focused research? • What, for you, are the major “grand challenges” in the civil society, development, democracy pathway? • How might we study them in interdisciplinary ways? What value is there in doing so? 1. “Grand Challenges” in CDD

4. You were given a set of papers to read and videos to watch • We tried to select different kinds of sources that come at the issue from different perspectives 2. Doing interdisciplinarity: Populism as a grand challenge • We chose populism as a critical CDD concept/problem because: • It has been analysed from different disciplinary viewpoints • Its meaning has changed over time and space • It is highly contentious in theory and practice • It represents a contemporary “grand challenge” • In small groups, spend 20 minutes thinking about: • How do different disciplines conceive of populism? • What does populism mean to people in your discipline, both conceptually and in terms of how it is researched, epistemologically and methodologically? • Are there any insights from other disciplines regarding what populism is, how it should be studied, or its significance that you find novel and appealing? • How could they be integrated into an interdisciplinary agenda? • What might be the challenges you face in achieving this?

5. Can you tell us, in 30 seconds, what your MA dissertation and/or PhD research is going to be about? 3. Your research and interdisciplinarity • Again, in small groups, think about the following for 20 mins: • What is the disciplinary focus of your research projects? • How might it be supplemented with insights from other fields? • Are there any challenges in integrating those insights? • What might be the pros and cons of taking a more interdisciplinary approach to your project? • Open discussion, with one question: • Whose project, from a different discipline, resonates with you? Can you comment on something that could be added to it from your discipline, and what the benefits of this might be?

6. 4. What use is interdisciplinarity in the “real world”? • The “impact agenda” is increasingly important • Plus, some of you are not doing a PhD or will not stay in academia after PhD • What are you all planning to do next? • (Either immediately after the MA, or after a PhD? • How can the insights we have discussed to be applied to the “real world”? • Is “thinking interdisciplinarily” useful for working outside academia? How?

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