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
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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: 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?
Photo/Stories from the field: Ethics and place
In Hyderabad, we usually go on a spree of doing fieldwork in hot summer, as that’s the time schools shut down for long vacation. On a day the temperature was […]
Photo/Stories from the field: Sampling in the wild
I spent the time between September 2014 until August 2015 creating the London ‘sample’ and from January 2014 onwards was also doing fieldwork with the children as they started to […]
Photo/Stories from the field
Forty-five children and their families across each city (Athens, Hyderabad, London) have taken part in the Connectors Study. Our initial fieldwork with these children and families lasted 18 months from […]
Primary Education and Austerity Cuts in Greece
Our field visit in Athens (with Sevasti-Melissa Nolas) took off with a couple of very constructive meetings. We ‘ve met and discussed our project sampling and methodology with our local advisory […]