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Title: Dr. Job Title: Beacon for Wales Research Associate and Cesagen Research Fellow Fax: Email: WatermeyerRP@cardiff.ac.uk Building: 6 Museum Place Room Number: 1.05
Richard has a BA (Hons) in English Literature (Swansea University), an MSc in Social Science Research Methods and a PhD in Sociology, from Cardiff University. He is a Research Associate for the Beacon for Wales, a UK wide initiative exploring public engagement as a core component of academic labour. Richard is investigating the diverse theoretical and practical implications of engagement and the notion of ‘public’; paying particular attention to the development of innovative methodology that communicates expert knowledge and allows for dialogical interplay between specialist and non-specialists communities.
Richard has held a number of research appointments within the School of Social Sciences (SOCSI) at Cardiff University that have focused on: media constructions of teenage suicide; school leavers’ attitudes to Higher Education, models of learner assessment, and most recently, pedagogy of performance – an ethnography of an opera conservatoire. He held a fixed-term appointment as an Associate Lecturer in the Contemporary Sociology of Education at SOCSI and continues to teach on a PGCE (FE) programme. Richard also has experience of research consultancy leading a team of qualitative researchers on an array of government commissions. Most recently Richard led a high-profile research project for the Department of Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (DCELLS), exploring issues of research capacity building for Welsh HEIs.
Richard currently manages ‘engaged’ a cross-institutional, cross sector, research group dedicated to the discussion of public engagement. He is also responsible for the national evaluation and base-lining of public engagement activity for Wales.
Watermeyer, R. (2009) Social Network Science: Pedagogy, Dialogue and Deliberation. European Journal of Science Communication Watermeyer, R. & Stevenson, V.(2009) Discover!ng Females in STEM: Girls into Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology Watermeyer. R. (2010) No Time to Engage: Institutionalizing Against the Potential for Participation. (Forthcoming) Watermeyer, R. (2010) A Public Academe? (Forthcoming) Watermeyer, R. (2010) The Genomic Gallery: Spaces of Contrast, Deliberation and Discontent. (Forthcoming)
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