[Commlist] CFP: What is Research? (2025)

Please see the Call for Proposals for the */What is Research?/ 
*conference-experience below and at <https://whatis.uoregon.edu/>

The event will take place April 3-5, 2025, at the University of Oregon 
Portland, Northeast campus.

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What is Research? (2025) will bring together scholars to explore various 
natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and 
areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative 
inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, 
collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, 
media/technologies, and information environments.

The thirteenth What is…? gathering delves into research in its many 
forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining 
existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in 
machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of 
research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of 
knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and 
possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, 
and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.

Scholars, government and community officials, scientists, artists, 
students, filmmakers, grassroots community organizations, public sector 
and industry professionals, and the public are invited to collaborate. 
Join us in a journey to explore the interconnected world of research 
from a transdisciplinary perspective. Share your insights, experiences, 
and innovative approaches as we foster a vibrant, inclusive dialogue 
that integrates diverse perspectives and knowledge. For more 
information: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/whatisresearch/cfp/

The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and 
Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and 
Communication at the University of Oregon.

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Call for Proposals • CFP
WHAT IS RESEARCH?
University of Oregon Portland • April 3–5, 2025

What is Research? (2025) will bring together scholars to explore various 
natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and 
areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative 
inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, 
collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, 
media/technologies, and information environments.

The thirteenth What is…? gathering delves into research in its many 
forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining 
existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in 
machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of 
research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of 
knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and 
possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, 
and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.

Scholars, government and community officials, scientists, artists, 
students, filmmakers, grassroots community organizations, public sector 
and industry professionals, and the public are invited to collaborate. 
Proposals that take a transdisciplinary perspective are especially 
encouraged, drawing on insights and methods from multiple fields to shed 
new light on research processes.

Presentations / panels / experiential installations may include these 
topics (as well as others):
• How does research and creative scholarship emerge from inquiry? How do 
they impact society?
• What are relationships between theory, method, and practice in research?
• What are qualitative, quantitative, multimethod, multimodal, 
participatory & arts-based approaches?
• What influences research design and data analysis?
• What are issues involved in validation (e.g., reproducibility, 
replicability, and cross-validating)?
• What are various modes of collaboration and how can they be organized?
• What are some considerations in interdisciplinary and 
transdisciplinary research?
• How are integrations of natural & artificial intelligence with quantum 
computing affecting research?
• What are environmental considerations of developments in machine 
learning & large data centers?
• How is research disseminated? How does it effectively engage publics 
and inform policy-making?
• How are ethics imbricated in research and how can researchers conduct 
work with integrity?
• What are benefits and challenges of compliance (e.g., privacy, 
security, review boards)?
• How can research address global challenges (e.g., health, inequality, 
poverty, climate change)?
• How is research used to drive solutions-based approaches and what are 
the challenges involved?
• How does research in academia differ from research in industry and/or 
community?
• What are the obstacles involved in translating findings into action?
• What issues are involved in diversity, equity, and inclusion in research?
• What are criteria and implications of various forms of research funding?
• How are meta-analysis and meta-research increasingly engaging 
human-machine collaboration?
• How can research education be integrated into teaching and learning, 
and how are next generations of researchers being trained?

Send 150-200 word abstracts for papers / panels / experiences by 
DECEMBER 2, 2024 to:
Janet Wasko • (jwasko /at/ uoregon.edu)
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