Seminar: Research Integrity and Research Impact: Reflecting on ‘participatory’ research with teachers

Research Ingegrity Funding Scheme 2025-26

Research Integrity and Research Impact: Reflecting on ‘participatory’ research with teachers

Professor Karen Pashby
Manchester Metropolitan University

February 4, 2026 (Wednesday)
16:00 - 17:30
Room 408-410, Meng Wah Complex, HKU
Chair: Professor Liz Jackson

Abstract:
While delivering research impact is increasingly important in academia, ensuring that research aiming to deliver impact also conforms with principles of research integrity is crucial. Targeting students and early career researchers (among others), this seminar will pose critical questions about why research impact is important and how impact can be developed with integrity with reference to a study’s theoretical lens or framework. Practicing research integrity when working with participants requires ensuring that research is conducted in alignment with a sound theoretical perspective and with an authentic methodological stance that takes seriously realities of co-productive work. Professor Pashby will share her experience developing a methodology of participatory research with (not on) teachers in northern Europe that leads to co-produced practice-oriented outputs (one output has had international impact, now translated into 13 languages). She will engage attendees with critical reflections on the pros and cons of the approach, shedding light on its importance as well as the possible pitfalls of romanticizing participatory methods. This seminar will be useful to students and colleagues in reflecting on the integrity of their research when preparing proposals and impact statements.

~ All are welcome ~