Find out more about DECkNO and our members
DECkNO aims to explore the problem of Eurocentrism in the social sciences and to consider its socioeconomic, educational and policy research implications.
Decolonising knowledge has become an urgent task for all disciplines, to unlock knowledge from around the world and tackle ongoing global events.
DECkNO was officially launched at the University of Bath on the 15 October 2019.
Members of the DECkNO pop-up centre for decolonising research theory.
Recent work and publications related to DECkNO
Seminars in this series include Decolonising: Theory, Epistemologies, Research Ethics, Methodologies and Writing and Representation.
Report: Findings of a study involving Bath's Jason Hart and Luisa Enria into the responses to a range of COVID-19 measures for refugee communities in Gaza.
Find out about the work DECkNO is doing
DECkNO has links to a range of ongoing projects.
DECkNO contributes to work at the University of Bath and SWDTP that decolonises the curriculum, trains students and facilitates inclusion.
DECkNO events and activities
This seminar series will consider how dominant epistemic narratives weigh upon and shape knowledge creation practices and give rise to questions for research.
DECkNO is a 'pop-up' Research Centre at the University of Bath, exploring ways of decolonising knowledge in social sciences across the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, the University and beyond.
We respond to the need to explain and fight against systemic and individual racism in academia and society by decolonising our research agendas, the curriculum, our interventions as practitioners and as policy advisors.