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April 21st, 2021
Elite interviews

Interviewing Chinese Local Government Officials: Reflection on Research Transparency and Coercion

June 30th, 2023
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Navigating the Uncertainty of In-Person Fieldwork during a Pandemic

May 11th, 2023
Ethnography

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

June 28th, 2022

Researcher's Positionality

Digital research

Navigating the Uncertainty of In-Person Fieldwork during a Pandemic

May 11th, 2023
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

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

Elite interviews

Interviewing Chinese Local Government Officials: Reflection on Research Transparency and Coercion

June 30th, 2023
Digital research

Navigating the Uncertainty of In-Person Fieldwork during a Pandemic

May 11th, 2023
Gaining Access

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

June 30th, 2021

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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