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ABSTRACT
The present article introduces the concept of knowledge mobilisation (KMb) strategies in university research by linking university social responsibility with the concept of inclusive and responsible research, which implies an ethical perspective of equity and inclusion in responding to citizens’ needs. The study objective is to discover the ethical position and KMb strategies in 80 research groups from five European countries. The amount and type of strategies applied are analysed from information gathered in semi-structured interviews and from KMb indicators. The results show that these strategies are still not widely used and point to four key elements in researchers’ ethical positions: commitment, knowledge recognition, dialogue and cooperation. Strategies range from the initial formulation of the research problem to a sustainability plan for the research projects. The conclusions identify an emancipatory ethical perspective that rebalances power relationships between researchers and stakeholders, but that generates tension with public research policies and research quality evaluation criteria.
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Auxiliadora Sales
Auxiliadora Sales, PhD in Education Sciences from the University of Valencia. Lecturer in the Department of Education, Area of Didactics and School Organisation, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón. She has focused her research on inclusive intercultural education, teacher training, action research and school change. She is part of the MEICRI research group (Educational Improvement and Critical Citizenship), with which she has developed research projects on the construction of the inclusive intercultural school and community and citizen participation for a school included in the territory.
Reina Ferrández-Berrueco
Reina Ferrández-Berrueco, Professor of Research Methods and Assessment in Education. The main research topics are related to quality and assessment in all educational levels. The last research projects at national level are linked to inclusive education in primary and secondary education and at international level to social and labour needs articulation in university curricula as a big challenge for Higher Education in Europe 2020. These reseach areas influence evidently the modules tought by me, always related to innovation, assessment and educational research.
Aida Sanahuja
Aida Sanahuja, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pedagogy and Didactics of Social Sciences, Language and Literature. She holds a PhD from the Universitat Jaume I (International Doctorate mention). She is a member of the Educational Improvement and Critical Citizenship Research Group (MEICRI) and collaborates with the Laboratoire International sur l'inclusion scolaire (LISIS). Her current lines of research are inclusive and democratic classroom practices, the school included in the territory and participatory action research processes.
Odet Moliner
Odet Moliner, PhD in Philosophy and Educational Sciences from the University of Valencia and is a Lecturer in the Department of Education, attached to the area of Didactics and School Organisation at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón. Member of the MEICRI Research Group (Educational Improvement and Critical Citizenship) of the Universitat Jaume I, she coordinates the research line on inclusive education. She is a regular researcher at LISIS (Laboratoire International sur l'inclusion scolaire) in partnership with the Université HEP de Vaud (Switzerland) and the Université UQTR de Québec (Canada).