Laury Lawrence Ocen

Laury
Fellow Status
Alumni
Current Status
Senior Lecturer, Lira University, Uganda
About me

I am a social scientist, educationist, community outreach professional, cultural historian, and motivational speaker. I am student of classical thought with special interest in Socratic, Platonic, and Aristotolian histories of knowledge. I am community of practice adviser with vast skills in community engagement and outreach. I am a theatre for development consultant, skilful in science communication and diplomacy; I am an actor, drama director, playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. 

Research Focus
My current research focuses on indigenous epistemologies, environmental history, environmental justice, quotidian communities, and vernacular intellectuals in the margins of societies. I am interested in how informally trained knowledge experts produce, store, transfer, and disseminate knowledge to determine the sense in which the Academy can relate, partner, or collaborate with such intellectuals often ignored in the Ivory Tower spaces. My research trajectory explores cross, inter, multi, and transdisciplinary perspectives from which knowledge and technology can be created, stored, disseminated and transferred.