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DPR9 The 9th Discourse, Power, Resistance Conference 30 March – 1 April, 2010 University of Greenwich London, United Kingdom This year DPR debates issues of trust and distrust in the academy and beyond – in management, teaching, learning and research and in institutions and communities across cultural, social and racial boundaries. DPR has moved from Manchester Metropolitan University to the School of Education and Training at the University of Greenwich, and will be held in London, UK between 30 March and 1 April, 2010. The venue is part of a world heritage site laid out in the late 17th and early 18th Centuries by Sir Christopher Wren and his successors. The conference will use the King William Building and the Stephen Lawrence Building, named in honour of Stephen Lawrence, killed some four miles away from Greenwich by racists in 1993 and now a symbol for racial and social justice. The conference looks at issues of trust and distrust in the academy and beyond – in management, teaching, learning and research and in institutions and communities across cultural, social and racial boundaries. What happens when trust is lost? The conference asks why this happens, why it matters and what can be done to recover our trust in ourselves, our colleagues, managers, policy-makers, teachers, learners and health care and public services professionals. The conference also confronts the controversy between qualitative and quantitative research methods, politically fraught and epistemologically contested, threatening to undermine trust in research findings. The seven streams of the conference are:  Trust and Leadership in the Academy  Trust and Panic in Education  Research Ethics  Trust in the Community: Critical Race Theory  Faith, Belief and Truth  The individual in a mistrustful world  DPR – Open strand For further information and Call for Papers contact: dpr@gre.ac.uk or visit www.gre.ac.uk/edu/dpr