By Anneka Owens To mark the end of Disability History Month, I have written this blog on my relationship with my disabled identity and my research methods. It maps the road to acceptance and how that has brought my research…
Poetry in Practice
By Catrin Edwards-Greaves Uses for poetry in research: communicating research findings and aiding reflexivity. Hello, I’m the new editor of the Methods blog, and in this post I give some insight into the types of methods that I like to…
Online Fieldwork in Conflict Affected Areas
By Louise Ridden When I started my collaborative ESRC funded PhD in September 2019, I imagined I’d spend many months traveling for my fieldwork. My research topic looks at nonviolent responses to armed conflict, and civilians protecting themselves and each…
Could ethnographic methods offer more than interviews when researching curriculum enactment in Wales?
By Rhianna Murphy IntroductionRecently I have been reviewing literature for my PhD study on national curriculum enactment in Wales. Whilst there are different methodologies and methods being used amongst studies, there are many research projects that take a case-study approach…
Home in 27 Exposures: reflections on the use of photo diaries with young migrants living in Swansea
By Jami Abramson With my mum she was born but she left when she was a baby. She came to Britain but she still has that feeling that it’s her home. You don’t have to have just one…
The First Alarm: A Homeless Hostel’s Response to its First Potential Case of COVID-19
By Fiona Long Ethnographic storytelling uses literary techniques ‘to construct from fieldnotes a narrative that will interest an outside audience’ (Emerson, 2011: 202). The resulting narratives have been praised for creating a ‘more public, engaging, affective, and panoramic sociology’ (Watson,…
Freedom of Information Requests as a Tool for Social Science Research
By Jennie Mack Following the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulations earlier this year, we are now more aware than ever of the proliferation of information produced through every day interactions, the nature of its storage and our rights…