[Commlist] CFP - What is Research?

      *Call for Proposals
      **What is Research?
      **University of Oregon Portland
      **April 23 - 25, 2006 *

/*What is Research?*/*(2026)* 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, pluralism, 
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, accessible, 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 / installations / experiential art 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 targeted, universal, and targeted 
universal approaches to research?
• What are criteria and implications of various forms of research funding?
• How are meta-analyses and systematic reviews engaging human-machine 
collaboration?
• How can research education be integrated into teaching and learning? 
How are next generations of researchers being trained?

• *CALL FOR PROPOSALS •
Send 150-200 word abstracts for papers / panels / art / experiences *

*by NOVEMBER 11, 2025 to:
Janet Wasko • (jwasko /at/ uoregon.edu) *


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