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OLAB 3.0 focuses on participatory research as a form of public engagement and thinks about the future of these methods for researchers and the communities they collaborate with. It explores some of the ways that ÌÇÐÄTV researchers are working with community members as experts by experience asking, ‘Who is involved in participatory research and how is it meaningful to them’ and ‘How does participatory research aid us creating and exchanging knowledge’. It highlights cross-sector and cross-disciplinary examples of participatory research, citizen science and other forms of collaborative projects and will tease out some of the challenges posed by our current research systems in valuing and making participatory research happen. 

In this talk, Noortje Marres will provide an overview of recent debates about the use of AI in social data analysis and argue that the new tools pose a fundamental challenge to the ability of interpretative social research to engage with contexts and communities in society. However, social researchers across disciplines have in recent years developed a new set of methods and associated strategies that precisely address this fundamental challenge: situational mapping.

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