Program

Pre-Colloquium Paper Development Workshop PDW-05

Academia and Civil Society: Rethinking Expectations, Practices and Tensions

Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 09:00–15:45

Location: T-building, room T3-24
 

Convenors:

 

Faculty:

  • Frank de Bakker, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Jonathan Doh, Villanova University, USA
  • Frank den Hond, Hanken Business School, Helsinki, Finland; & VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Ans Kolk, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Guests (NGO/civil-society representatives):

  • Christine Koblun, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
  • Ilze Smit, Greenpeace International
  • Mariëtte van Huijstee, Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)
  • Natasha Zwaal, WWF

 

Program PDW-05: Wednesday, July 2, 2014
09:00 – 09:20

Introduction to & Outline of the workshop
09:20 – 10:00

The Practitioners' Point of View: Presentations of invited NGO/civil society representatives about their experience with civil society–academia collaborations

+ subsequent discussion
10:00 – 10:30

 Salla Laasonen: The State-of-the-art Research of the Field

+ subsequent discussion
10:30 – 11:00

Problems and Tensions in the Civil Society–Academia Collaboration:

Teasers by selected participants

+ subsequent discussion
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 13:15 GROUP WORK on two interrelated themes

Room: T3-24
Group 1: Managerial Implications of Research for Civil Society
– What are they and how should they be?
– How are they different from "business" managerial implications?

Room: T3-11
Group 1: Research Issues and Methods
– How to actually involve civil society in our research?
– How to actually involve academia in civil society agenda?
– The "double-hat role" as the way to go?
13:15 – 14:15

Lunch
14:15 – 15:30 Plenary on the two group works' results + Panel by convenors, faculty & guests
15:30 – 15:45 Closing & Wrap-up
20:00– Informal dinner in Rotterdam {self-paid}