Workshop in Research Justice
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Posted: Oct 13, 2025 - 12:00am
Workshop in Research Justice
The Workshop in Research Justice (WRJ) brings together University of New Mexico students, faculty, staff, and community members interested in community-led and community-based research to advance social change. WRJ provides an interdisciplinary space for members to share work-in-progress; talk through challenges, opportunities, and methodologies; skill-share; and build solidarity.
WRJ approaches community-university relationships through a lens of research and data justice. We recognize that the communities with whom we work are experts in their own experiences and histories, who already advance critical analyses of power, oppression, and liberation. We understand that researchers and research institutions have harmed and continue to harm communities — particularly Black, Indigenous, people of color, and other marginalized communities. We are invested in doing research otherwise and in the potential of research as a critical tool in achieving self-determination and social change.
Join Us!
Are you interested in workshopping your work (draft thesis or dissertation chapter, journal article, conference paper, report, audio and/or visual work, etc.)? Are you navigating a challenge in your research that you want to talk through in an aligned space? Do you have a skill to share? Are you a member of a community-based organization with experience in how research can advance your work?
Where: WRJ meets bi-weekly on Mondays from 11:45am – 12:45pm in the R.H. Mallory Center for Community Geography (Bandelier West 106). Bring your own lunch if you like, and snacks will be provided!
Papers, materials, and/or prompts will be circulated about one week in advance.
Connect: If you would like to share your work and/or to be added to the WRJ listserv, please contact Graduate Student Coordinator Esther Hewitt (ehewitt1@unm.edu) and Faculty Sponsor Silas Grant (soagrant@unm.edu).
*We are actively seeking presenters for Nov 3, Nov 17, and Spring 2026 workshops! Please get in touch if you are interested.
