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|Title=Transformative Research, Part 2: Emotions & Justice
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|Instruction Goal=<span lang="EN-US">After completing this micromodules learners will be able to:</span>

'''<span lang="EN-US">Identify</span>''' <span lang="EN-US">ethical tensions in their own research ecosystems by reflecting on who benefits, who pays the price and what is left unseen or unaddressed</span>

'''<span lang="EN-US">Use</span>''' <span lang="EN-US">imagination and analogy as tools to surface inner dynamics, silenced voices, and neglected consequences in research systems and practices.</span> 

'''<span lang="EN-US">Critically</span>''' <span lang="EN-US">evaluate their role as researchers not only as knowledge producers but as moral and political actors.</span>
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|Is About=<span lang="EN-US">This micromodule, inspired by the podcast T[https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Yq8FQTN5tX789DJwwSrmI?si=WUKgA52dS9WjZ-Llt98E8A ransformative Research, Part 2: Emotions & Justice],  explores the emotional and justice-oriented dimensions of research. Drawing on Ursula Le Guin’s ''The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'', the discussion examines how hidden assumptions, imagination, and embodied experience shape our roles as researchers. It asks us to reflect on what it means to connect knowledge with action in pursuit of more just futures.</span>
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|Instruction Step Title=Listen to the podcast
|Instruction Step Text=<span lang="EN-US">In this episode, Lucy Sabin, Josephine Chambers, and Rianne Janssen engage in a conversation about transformative research and explain how this approach to research challenges the assumption that simply producing knowledge leads to societal change. Instead, this approach asks researchers to confront hidden narratives about their role, engage creatively with imagination, and recognize research as an emotional, ethical, and relational practice—not just a rational one. Through storytelling, creative expression, and reflection (e.g., the Omelas analogy), participants explore tensions between engaging societal agendas and preserving critical, imaginative independence.</span>

<span lang="EN-US">Listening to this podcast we learn that transformation can happen on two levels: externally in systems and policies, and internally in researchers’ values, motivations, and identities. Taking this approach and reflecting on one's own research practices can recenter humanity in research, showing that imagination, creativity, and self-awareness are vital for shaping futures.</span>
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|Instruction Step Title=Reflect on the “Omelas analogy”
|Instruction Step Text='''<span lang="EN-US">Reflect on the “Omelas analogy”</span>'''
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|Instruction Step Title=Write your own story
|Instruction Step Text=<span lang="EN-US">Now that you have identified possible blind spots and challenges in your research, we invite you to use storytelling to craft an original short story. By doing so, you can reflect on hidden assumptions, neglected impacts, silenced voices, and power relations within your own research context or field.</span>

<span lang="EN-US">Storytelling helps us see what academic prose often hides.</span>

'''<span lang="EN-US">Can you think of a short fictional narrative or metaphor that can reflect the Omelas-like dynamic you have identified in step 2?  </span>'''
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|Instruction Step Title=Reflect on and share your story
|Instruction Step Text=<span lang="EN-US">After your story, write a short reflection addressing:</span>


*<span lang="EN-US">What shifts in your thinking emerged through writing it?</span>
*<span lang="EN-US">What implications does your story raise for how research might change?</span>

<span lang="EN-US">If you can, share your thoughts with a colleague or a friend.</span>
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