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April 21st, 2021
Ethnography

The shifting terrain of ethnography: Why flexible points of attention matter in the study of social relations

June 28th, 2022
Participatory methods

Recognising participation for children and young people

March 21st, 2022
Research design

Aid industry and the politics of knowledge production: Epistemic agency and its role in decolonising research practices in development

January 11th, 2022

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Researcher's Positionality

Research design

Aid industry and the politics of knowledge production: Epistemic agency and its role in decolonising research practices in development

January 11th, 2022

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Remote fieldwork

Not mutually exclusive: Reflections on remote research and critical engagement with human rights research

November 25th, 2021
Remote fieldwork

Adapting to remote research on Vietnamese land politics during the COVID-19 pandemic

November 16th, 2021

Local epistemology

Ethnography

Encountering the electricity shortage: Research Methods driven by infrastructure disruption

April 12th, 2021
Gaining Access

In search of meaningful data

November 13th, 2019
Local epistemology

Between ‘Wizards of Oz’, Madagascari Lemur and Megalomaniac Presidents: The Amusements of Research in Post-Socialist Spaces

February 27th, 2015

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Gaining Access

Gaining Access

Gaining Access to People between the State and Citizens in the Field

June 30th, 2021
Ethnography

Going beyond Known Knowledge with Ethnographers’ Reflexivity in a Working-class Neighbourhood of Public Housing Estates in Neoliberal Hong Kong

June 21st, 2021
Emotions in the field

Conducting research in the midst of a military coup in Myanmar

June 2nd, 2021

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Ethnography

Ethnography

The shifting terrain of ethnography: Why flexible points of attention matter in the study of social relations

June 28th, 2022
Ethnography

Digitising ethnography for work: the case for a Cognitive Ethnography of Religion

July 21st, 2021

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Ethnography

Going beyond Known Knowledge with Ethnographers’ Reflexivity in a Working-class Neighbourhood of Public Housing Estates in Neoliberal Hong Kong

June 21st, 2021

Boundary Crossing

Boundary Crossing

Field realities in the global South: Acknowledging emotion and the importance of reflexivity

January 6th, 2021
Boundary Crossing

Field realities in the global South: Encounters with poverty and caste

December 17th, 2020

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Boundary Crossing

“What is this research thing you do?” Reflections on the (blurred) lines between research and social activism

November 26th, 2020
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