2019, issue 43, Katrin Tiidenberg: Calls for public facing scholarship (partially overlapping with the categories of ‘networked participatory scholarship’ or ‘open scholarship’) are increasingly common. On the one hand, it makes sense – after all, who do we do research for if not the publics? Funding institutions – presumably relying on this very logic – have made popular engagement and broad dissemination a mandatory part of the research process. On the other hand, not everyone wants to, or is capable of inhabiting the limelight.
