Workshops and Conferences
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The project is proposed for 4 years (2018 - 2022) with a serie of events aimed at developing the project and disseminating its results to an academic audience and the general public.
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The management structure is relatively simple since the researchers have a long experience of joint research work and in the organization of workshops and scientific academic publications.
The team will organize its work in accordance to a structure divided in six parts corresponding to six work packages: |
WP 1: Publication of results of the world congress on UBI: it will be led by Sara Bizarro and Roberto Merrill
Our first activity was devoted to write and integrate to our project a report with the results of the 17th BIEN congress, which was held in Lisbon at the Portuguese Parliament and at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management, on 25-27 sept 2017. The world congress, on the topic of implementing a basic income, was coordinated by Roberto Merrill and its results will have great value for the orientation of our project. See here the webpage of the 17th BIEN Congress, the report on the congress as well as the report on its mediatic impact, both by Sara Bizarro.
WP 2: Project coordination meetings: it will be led alternatively by Roberto Merrill and Jurgen de Wispelaere
To facilitate project development and ensure close cooperation between the core members and consultants of the research team, we plan to hold regular coordination meetings twice per year (6 meetings in total). These meetings are for internal research members and not aimed at the public: their primary purpose is to allow researchers to update each other on general research developments and the state of the investigation, as well as planning future stages of the research.
Project coordination meetings will have a practical agenda covering various aspects of project development but each time will also feature time for in-depth critical discussion of one or more draft position papers, prepared in advance by one of the research team members. Meetings will take place over the course of a single day at the University of Minho, where most of the core researchers are based. External team members and consultants will be invited to participate as well.
Project coordination meetings will have a practical agenda covering various aspects of project development but each time will also feature time for in-depth critical discussion of one or more draft position papers, prepared in advance by one of the research team members. Meetings will take place over the course of a single day at the University of Minho, where most of the core researchers are based. External team members and consultants will be invited to participate as well.
WP 3: Expert workshops: it will be led alternatively by Hujo Rajão and Jorge Pinto
In addition to the project coordination meetings, we are planning two expert workshops at the end of year 1 (2018) and year 2 (2019). Expert workshops will feature the core research team and integrated consultants, but also invite a select number of outside experts in the fields of political philosophy, philosophy of science and social epistemology (as well as the closely associated fields of law or sociology) in addition to a number of experts on UBI experimentation, including, for instance, the leaders of research teams of ongoing experiments in Finland and by then Canada, Netherlands, USA, Kenya and India.
The aim of the expert workshops is twofold. On the one hand, we will invite external experts to report on a core theme within their field of expertise, informing our research team on the most advanced state of the art on that particular issue. On the other hand, during these expert workshops the research team will present its own research on various aspects of the project and engage with outside experts to obtain comments and suggestions for future development. Expert workshops offer a significant opportunity for the project team members to obtain peer review commentary from leading scholars external to the project.
Workshops will be planned over the course of two days in Braga. While these workshops would feature restricted access to allow for optimal exchange of ideas and research updates, we will most likely plan for having at least one public lecture open to both an academic audience and the general public tagged onto the program as part of our engagement to disseminate the results of our project to the broader university and policy community. The consultants include: Juliana Bidadanure (Stanford Basic Income Lab: https://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/research-outreach/basic-income-lab-bil) ; Dr. Leticia Morales, University of Mar del Plata (law, focus on disagreement and its role in policy decisions, work on normative vs. factual disagreements); Dr. Lisa Herzog, Technical University Munich (political philo and economic justice, fair bit of work on epistemic issues around economic decisions/policy - including BI); Prof. Nicholas King, McGill University (bioethics, social historian, social scientist, works on evidence and evidence-based policy-making, interest in experimental methodology); Dr. Julian Muller, Brown University (political philosophy - written on role of evidence and disagreement about policy and role of social experimentation therein); Prof. Arto Laitinen at Tampere University (political philo and philo of science, expert on recognition and Hegel but also working on the role of evidence in society and interest in UBI); Nancy Cartwright, San Diego and Durham (leading philosophy of science professor and written on evidence-based policy-making).
The aim of the expert workshops is twofold. On the one hand, we will invite external experts to report on a core theme within their field of expertise, informing our research team on the most advanced state of the art on that particular issue. On the other hand, during these expert workshops the research team will present its own research on various aspects of the project and engage with outside experts to obtain comments and suggestions for future development. Expert workshops offer a significant opportunity for the project team members to obtain peer review commentary from leading scholars external to the project.
Workshops will be planned over the course of two days in Braga. While these workshops would feature restricted access to allow for optimal exchange of ideas and research updates, we will most likely plan for having at least one public lecture open to both an academic audience and the general public tagged onto the program as part of our engagement to disseminate the results of our project to the broader university and policy community. The consultants include: Juliana Bidadanure (Stanford Basic Income Lab: https://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/research-outreach/basic-income-lab-bil) ; Dr. Leticia Morales, University of Mar del Plata (law, focus on disagreement and its role in policy decisions, work on normative vs. factual disagreements); Dr. Lisa Herzog, Technical University Munich (political philo and economic justice, fair bit of work on epistemic issues around economic decisions/policy - including BI); Prof. Nicholas King, McGill University (bioethics, social historian, social scientist, works on evidence and evidence-based policy-making, interest in experimental methodology); Dr. Julian Muller, Brown University (political philosophy - written on role of evidence and disagreement about policy and role of social experimentation therein); Prof. Arto Laitinen at Tampere University (political philo and philo of science, expert on recognition and Hegel but also working on the role of evidence in society and interest in UBI); Nancy Cartwright, San Diego and Durham (leading philosophy of science professor and written on evidence-based policy-making).
WP 4: Participation in international events: it will be led alternatively by Sara Bizarro and Jurgen de Wispelaere
Throughout the project the project team and consultants are expected to participate in international events and present their research to the wider scholarly community. This mainly proceeds through the submission of individual paper proposals at the most established international conferences in the field. In addition, we expect our core research members to receive specific invitation to present on the project and its research findings in academic and policy settings. We will be dedicating part of our funding to facilitate such participation.
In addition, we also plan to organize specialist workshops at established conferences that allow for panel or stream submissions. We plan to submit a dedicated workshop proposal to the 2018 word congress in UBI (BIEN Congress 2018), which is due to take place in Tampere (Finland) as well as the 2020 BIEN Congress (no venue decided yet). We plan to submit similar workshop proposals to philosophy conferences, such as Mancept (Manchester Workshops in Political Theory, taking place annually in September 2019 in Manchester) and the Political Theory section of the annual ECPR (European Consortium of Political Research) conference. We plan to explore other international venues as well.
In addition, we also plan to organize specialist workshops at established conferences that allow for panel or stream submissions. We plan to submit a dedicated workshop proposal to the 2018 word congress in UBI (BIEN Congress 2018), which is due to take place in Tampere (Finland) as well as the 2020 BIEN Congress (no venue decided yet). We plan to submit similar workshop proposals to philosophy conferences, such as Mancept (Manchester Workshops in Political Theory, taking place annually in September 2019 in Manchester) and the Political Theory section of the annual ECPR (European Consortium of Political Research) conference. We plan to explore other international venues as well.
WP 5: Public International conference: it will be led alternatively by Jorge Pinto and Roberto Merrill
At the end of our research project (2021) we are planning a major public conference aimed at disseminating our research results. This would be a two-day public event aimed at both the academic and policy community, featuring several keynote lectures from internationally renowned scholars and experts as well as presentations from project team members and consultants reporting on the research conducted the past three years. This conference will likely take place in Lisbon to facilitate broad attendance and we plan to also feature live-streaming of the main events to ensure broad international dissemination of our research.
WP 6: Publications and Other Output: it will be led by Roberto Merrill and Jurgen de Wispelaere
In terms of publications, team members will prepare articles for publication in leading journals in the field, and contribute chapters to edited collections. Due to regular workshop meetings, expert workshops and conference participation, our research team members have an important research support structure that facilitates preparation of manuscript for publication. In light of both the topicality and novelty of our project, we expect to place a good number of our research outputs in high-ranking journals.
In addition we propose to approach the editors of the leading UBI journal Basic Income Studies (https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bis) to devote a special issue on the topic of our research project. There exists also the option of a dedicated edited book volume, edited by the lead researchers of the project and featuring contributions by the research team, external team members and consultants, with the Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee series of the international publisher Palgrave (http://www.palgrave.com/gb/series/14981).
Finally, to take into account that our project is firmly embedded in an ongoing policy discussion, researchers will also be expected to participate in public discussions and commentary via blog posts and contributing to various media outlets.
In addition we propose to approach the editors of the leading UBI journal Basic Income Studies (https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bis) to devote a special issue on the topic of our research project. There exists also the option of a dedicated edited book volume, edited by the lead researchers of the project and featuring contributions by the research team, external team members and consultants, with the Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee series of the international publisher Palgrave (http://www.palgrave.com/gb/series/14981).
Finally, to take into account that our project is firmly embedded in an ongoing policy discussion, researchers will also be expected to participate in public discussions and commentary via blog posts and contributing to various media outlets.
