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Category Archives: Research design
Oct 30 2014
Embedding research in local contexts: local knowledge, stakeholders’ participation and fieldwork design
Leave a commentIt is not always easy for researchers to explain how and why a research project is important to local people whose interests may be diverse or in conflict. Viewing fieldwork as a process of constructive communication with all the stakeholders … Continue reading
Posted by: October 30, 2014
Tagged with: community-based fieldwork, Italy, local epistemology, local knowledge, migrant workers, research design, Veneto
Sep 19 2014
Fieldwork in a digital age: Questions of privacy and copyright
Leave a commentMaximising research impact and promoting knowledge sharing require researchers to pay greater attention to the ways in which data are collected, processed and stored for systematic access at a later date. This also means that questions of privacy and copyright … Continue reading
Posted by: September 19, 2014
Tagged with: Australia, data management, digital literacy, licensing, privacy, research design, research ethics
Sep 4 2014
Competing loyalties: Dilemmas arising from violent outbreak in a planned research site, South Sudan
Leave a commentResearchers choose field sites for a wide range of theoretical, ideological, interpersonal or pragmatic reasons, usually combined. Some of these rationales are acknowledged, while others remain unacknowledged and hidden from either external or the researcher’s own reflection. However, where these … Continue reading
Posted by: September 4, 2014
Tagged with: Field Site Selection, Loyalty, research design, researcher's positionality, South Sudan
Jun 19 2014
Gaining access into gated communities: Reflections from a fieldwork in Istanbul, Turkey
Leave a commentIn this piece, Basak Tanulku shares her experiences of conducting fieldwork in gated communities in Istanbul, Turkey for her PhD research. She explains how she decided to work on gated communities, and discusses the problems arising due to difficulties in … Continue reading
Posted by: June 19, 2014
Tagged with: building trust, gaining access, gated communities, Istanbul, research design, Researcher positionality, Turkey, urban ethnography
May 23 2014
Challenging hierarchical research relations and improving research trustworthiness: the use of member checking
Leave a commentThis contribution discusses the use of member checking in Tot, Kenya and Engaruka, Tanzania as enriching practices for both the researched and the researcher. By utilising a series of pamphlets produced in local languages, participants are able to see the … Continue reading
Posted by: May 23, 2014
Tagged with: feminist geographies, local epistemology, member checking, research design, visual methods