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What is Research? (2025) will bring together scholars to explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.

The thirteenth What is…? gathering delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.

Scholars, government and community officials, scientists, artists, students, filmmakers, grassroots community organizations, public sector and industry professionals, and the public are invited to collaborate. Join us in a journey to explore the interconnected world of research from a transdisciplinary perspective. Share your insights, experiences, and innovative approaches as we foster a vibrant, inclusive dialogue that integrates diverse perspectives and knowledge. For more information.

The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. More details to follow.

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