Christina Hee Pedersen, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Communication and Arts
Roskilde University, Denmark
Member of the Dialogic Communication Group
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Christina
Hee Pedersen is a communication scholar with a special interest in how
socio- economic and socio-cultural differences play out and effect
communication processes. Her main research interests include
collaborative methodologies, learning processes, memory work, feminist
poststructuralist research and action research. Over the years
autobiographic dimensions of reflective narrative methodologies have
been developed and refined in Christina´s work. Currently she is
bringing together years of research and teaching experiences into a book
on collaborative methodologies with the working title Leaps and Bounds:
Traveling around Collaborative Research Methodologies. In the spring
of 2015 she spent three months as a visiting scholar at the Beatrice
Bain Research Group at the Department of Women’s Studies at U.C.
Berkeley working on this book. The book will be a reflexive exploration
of the knowledge (co)produced through innovation and experimentation and
it brings together the fruits of many years of specialization on the
topic; interdisciplinary collaborative research methodologies. The aim
is to dig into the promises and the relational complexities embedded in
collaborative research. Difference is as mentioned to this body of work
at a number of levels, both empirically and analytically.
She
belongs to the Centre for Dialogical Research (CDR) at Roskilde
University in Denmark. The work in the group displays multimodal takes
on collaborative qualitative methodologies across temporal and spatial
contexts and a guiding principle is to explore how collaborative and
dialogic dimensions in research stimulate practices of social inclusion.
Christina Hee Pedersen´s cross cultural relationship and her
feminist/lesbian activism has brought her around the world, especially
she have worked in many informal educational settings as a facilitator
and as a teacher at universities in Peru and Bolivia. In the 90és she
worked as an international consultant in a number of so-called
“developing countries” and in local NGO´s mostly in Peru, where she also
published two books in Spanish. She initiated her academic carrier
relatively late in life finishing my ph.d. in 1999. She publishes in
both Spanish and English.
Publications include:
- Pedersen, C. H. (2013) “Anclando los significados – contribuyendo al diálogo. El uso de imágenes en la producción de relaciones y significados” in Diversitas, Revista Digetal Universidad San Thómas, Vol 9, No 1, 2013, Bogota, Colombia.
- Pedersen , C. H. (2012) ”Exploring political longings and institutional belongings in the Peruvian women’s movement – the promise of collaborative research methodologies” in Fryba Christensen S. and Andersson V. (ed.)Latin American responses to neo-liberalism: Strategies and struggles, Ålborg University Press.
- Pedersen, C.H. & Olesen, B. R. (2012) “Co-producing knowledge: between othering, emotionality and dialogue”. Chapter 7 in Phillips, L., Kristiansen, M., Vehvilainen, M. and Gunnarsson, E. (ed.). Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research: A Reflexive Approach. Routledge Advances in Research Methods Series. London and New York: Routledge.
- Pedersen, C.H. & Olesen B.R. (2008). “What Knowledge – Which relationships?: Sharing Dilemmas of an Action Researcher”, International Journal of Action Research, 4(3), 254-290.
Activities of relevance:
- 2014: Organizer of course “With difference at the centre”, students at two Bolivian teachers colleges in El Alto and Warisata. Funded by grant from “Civil society in Development” CISU, Danida and in collaboration with SPOR Media (DK) and COMPA (Bolivia) on new democratizing pedagogies and the use of audiovisual methodologies for working with socio-economic and socio-cultural differences.
- 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013: Courses for volunteers in Danish Refugee Counsel in a number of Danish cities.
- 2009, 2010, 2011: Masters course on creative research methodologies, Pontificate Catholic University of Peru
2010: Course on dialogic methodologies, “RACE – Observatory, University of the Cordillera, La Paz. - 2003- date: Reviewer on large number of articles in Danish and International Journals. Co-organizer of Conference Relationer og vidensformer (Relations and knowledge forms)