Negotiating ‘Voice’ in the Space Between: Using digital platforms for transformative and transnational knowledge production

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In this paper, we present the findings of a Universitas 21 (U21) Graduate Research Project collaboration between Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, the University of Nottingham, England, and Lund University, Sweden. This project brought together six doctoral candidates at various stages in their postgraduate careers. The students had conducted qualitative and quantitative inquiry into diverse educational topics but all within contexts of public policies of privatisation. In Chile, England and Sweden these changes have been experienced at a pace and scale quite unprecedented elsewhere. Each doctoral research project was individual in terms of its original research design: aims and purpose, methodology, methods and analytical approach. However, an important commonality across all the studies was the adoption of a critical theoretical framework in which an examination of the marginality of public participants’ voices was central to the research findings. Acknowledging that the ‘public’ is ‘a problematic subject… It is shape shifting, unstable and unpredictable. It embodies conflicting or ambivalent desires and doubts’ (Clarke and Newman, 2009, p.43), this concept required further interrogation. This paper is therefore a meta-analysis of our critical comparative work and explores the following question: how are the voices of different ‘publics’ marginalised in diverse privatised educational contexts?

Period	4 Sept 2018
Event title	European Conference on Educational Research 2018: Inclusion and Exclusion, Resources for Educational Research?
Event type	Conference
Location	Bolzano, ItalyShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International