An LSE blog as an online platform for researchers to share field research experiences. Supported by @LSESEAC Contact the editor @urbancommune for contribution
The Field Research Methods Lab Blog welcomes new contributions from both established and early career researchers to share their hands-on fieldwork experiences.
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š Latest blog post published! @kreed_sea presents lessons learned from conducting in-person fieldwork during the pandemic in Southeast Asia. One key lesson is the immense advantage of being present in the local environment for understanding local contexts blogs.lse.ac.uk/fieldresearcā¦
š£ļø@AliceLittlePhD describes her experience of engaging with a local community youth group and how it represents the many voices of children and young people engaging in research.
ā¬ļøRead more on SEAC Field Research Methods Lab blogs.lse.ac.uk/fieldresearcā¦
New open access edited volume:
"COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a post pandemic world"
Edited by @urbancommune, Murray Mckenzie, & @dy_oh
This title delivers an array of voices from the region with 30 contributors from or based in Southeast Asia
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"Unless we see local staff occupying leading roles in the chain of knowledge production, it would make little sense to speak of a localisation and decolonisation of aid."
Read @RitaAdelMohamm1's new post on the politics of knowledge production ā¬ļø
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Undertaking qualitative research during the pandemic?
@mlcpineda reflects on navigating the processes behind conducting in-depth interviews online
Read about how Luisa Pineda from @MediaLSE adapted to her remote fieldwork on Filipino feminist activism.
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"I could not shake the discomfort I felt at dissecting a method that I ultimately support and that is used for the explicit purpose of advancing womenās human rights"
Read Amanda MuƱoz Gamage's reflections on feminist participatory action research here: bit.ly/3CQflK6
COVID-19 upended many researchersā plans, with in-person fieldwork no longer possible for many. Read about how Gray Brakke from @LSEGeography adapted to remote research on Vietnamese land politics. Read ā¬ļø: blogs.lse.ac.uk/fieldresearcā¦
"The inclusion of respondents in the research process through deliberative discourses, anchored in emancipation and reflexivity, may offer a more comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted issues of conflict and peace"
Read Jonathan Eli Libut here: bit.ly/3pTt3ZT
"Critical reflexivity is required for researchers to navigate the balance between the value of knowledge co-production and the effect of burdening participants."
Read more on the Photovoice method from Dr. Yawei Zhao @ywei_z here: bit.ly/3BJRpbj
Don't miss out on attending Dr Shanthi Thambiah's talk on migration governance, emotional connectivity and domestic workers in Indonesia and Malaysia this Wednesday 6th Oct at 12:00 UK BST.
Register for the event here: bit.ly/3miTNiH
The fate of vernaculars as a new lens to study tensions and dynamics in urban China, UC Berkeley lecturer @FangXu_SHtoSF shares her field research experiences.
Read Dr. Xu's blog post here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/fieldresearcā¦
"For a short period of time, I thought perhaps digital entrepreneurship was so empowering that gender did not matter in the network era, particularly in metropolitan areas."
Read more about in Luo Yiling's (@CUHKofficial) blog here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/fieldresearcā¦
For researchers interested in religious studies, this contribution by @nehakhetrapal from @JindalGlobalUNI presents a creative journey into the digital space, when the pandemic thwarted plans for entering into the ānaturalā field blogs.lse.ac.uk/fieldresearcā¦
"When I intend to go beyond my known knowledge of the field... I find ethnographersā reflexivity is more useful and insightful than knowledge positionality"
Read more in Jason Yan's new post for the Field Research Methods Lab Blog: bit.ly/3vJLNKo
Caught in the midst of COVIDās initial outbreak, Al Lim
@al_l1m reflects on how he pivoted his methodology for his masterās dissertation towards a critical corpus-based analysis. Read more about it here: bit.ly/3iFCCrM
What does it mean to conduct research in the midst of a military coup in Myanmar? @Morgane_Dsd from @SOASPolitics reflects on her positionality and experience in navigating security and ethics in constraining political environments. blogs.lse.ac.uk/fieldresearcā¦
What happens when you canāt follow local customs and protocols during your fieldwork? @jo_octavia shares her experience of adapting elite interviews in #Indonesia into phone interviews and building trust with her interlocutors during #COVID19 pandemic blogs.lse.ac.uk/fieldresearcā¦