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<b>Subject: </b><b>Visiting Professor Talk - Data Activism and Sustainability</b></div>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">March 29, 2016 at 9:38:45 AM EDT<br>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Activist Research Methods in Science and Technology<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Professor Max Liboiron</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Memorial University</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">April 22nd, 4pm, E51-345</span></b></div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sometimes our research is driven by wanting to do good in the world, make an impact, and create social or material change.
While often not taught in mainstream university curriculums, there are research methods and methodologies developed specifically for action that can help us contribute to those changes, including participatory action research (PAR), feminist biology, militant
research, Indigneous statistics, charismatic data, and many, many others. While action-based and activist research methods were initially developed within the social sciences and humanities, the principles and practices are increasingly being used by scientists
and technologists. Dr. Max Liboiron, Director of Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), will lead a talk and discussion about how research can foster change not only after data has been collected and analyzed or after prototypes are complete,
but during the entire research and development process.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bio:</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dr. Max Liboiron is an Assistant Professor in Sociology, Geography, and Environmental Sciences at Memorial University
of Newfoundland. Liboiron's research focuses on how harmful yet invisible threats such as disasters, toxicants, and marine plastics become visible in science and activism, and how these methods of representation relate to action. Liboiron is director of <font><a href="http://civiclaboratory.nl/" target="_blank">Civic
Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font>which creates open source, feminist, and citizen science technologies for monitoring plastic pollution, and is the managing editor of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font><a href="http://discardstudies.com/" target="_blank"><i>Discard
Studies</i></a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font>a public online forum for audiences interested in research on waste and pollution. </span></div>
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