Making connections under the banyan tree and other such spaces
Melissa and Christos reflect on methods in multimodal ethnography to think about how these might relate to knowledge exchange
Category Archives: reflexivity
Photo/stories from the field: inside out
Melissa Nolas shares an extract from her fieldnotes, where a reaction to a sarong in a window emblematizes the boundary work in ethnographic research
Photo/stories from the field: anonymous portraits and other practices in the ethics of representation
Melissa Nolas explores how the use of photography and anonymous portraits helped to overcome some of the challenges in the ethics of representation
Photo/stories from the field are back!
Last summer we ran a 12-part series called ‘photo/stories from the field’. You can read the entries here. The photo/stories from the field are back again this summer with another […]
Lost in translation?
Dr Martin Bittner reflects on his own research and experiences of working across cultures, exploring a theory and methodology of translation
Photo/Stories from the field: The computer in the room
Dr Christos Varvantakis describes the impact of technology, computer games, and mobile phones on childhood games across the Connectors Study
Photo/Stories from the field: An encounter with an unsolicited stranger
Dr Vinnarasan Aruldoss describes strangers interrupting research dynamics and flows, touching on the ethical challenge for privacy in close-knit communities
Photo/Stories from the field: Splat!
Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas reflects on pain and embodiment in the research process, and how children adapted their game playing to be more inclusive
Photo/Stories from the field: A dog’s statue (and the story behind it)
On modern fables and story-telling in public space: Christos Varvantakis shares an excerpt from the field
Photo/Stories from the field: Adults in child research
What happens to ethics when the process of conducting research itself becomes public? What do we do when adults or parents intervene in data collection?