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Artist-researcher collaborations in Co-Creation: redesigning favela tourism around graffiti
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Leandro ‘Tick’ Rodrigues and Christina Horvath
Published: 09 September 2020
...This chapter explores artist-researcher collaborations in Co-Creation projects through a case study based in Tabajaras & Cabritos, a favela located in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone that underwent police pacification in 2010 but has been experiencing ongoing security issues since 2017. The study...
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Service users being used: thoughts to the research community
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Michaela Booth and Paula Harriott
Published: 18 May 2021
... researched, covering researcher–participant relationships, power, purpose, ownership, and ethics. It also delves into concerns that women's collective and personal experiences of pain are subjected to being used, manipulated, and repackaged. The chapter talks about the marginal benefit and minimal impact...
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Positioning in an Insecure Field: Reflections on Negotiating Identity
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Maria-Louise Clausen
Published: 19 June 2020
...This chapter looks into the negotiations of identity and positionality that take place during fieldwork. It conveys gender, culture, and educational and professional backgrounds as factors that contribute to the closeness and distance between researcher and researched. It also discusses Maria...
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The Research Environment
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Julia Brannen
Published: 15 November 2019
...This chapter focuses on the author's experiences of the conditions under which externally funded research is done by looking at a particular research workplace, the work practices that predominated, and the significance of research teams and mentors. There appear to be few references...
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Published: 24 January 2023
... psychological research and knowledge and policing might need to focus and develop in the future. Some areas suggested include, how police–researcher relationships might blossom, police wellbeing and psychology, and policing and the internet (cybercrime). police–researcher relationship Pease K Roach J Self...
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Published: 09 February 2023
... of reflexivity as an ethical stance, and the integral and dynamic role of researcher identity, which highlights the emotional labour of doing research on such sensitive research themes. This chapter also evaluates methods, tools, and fieldwork practices used to elicit the views of vulnerable children often...
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Being Watched and Being Handled
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Jesse Driscoll
Published: 19 June 2020
... Note: Some material is adapted from Doing Global Fieldwork: A Social Scientist’s Guide to Mixed-Method Research in Difficult Places , forthcoming from Columbia University Press. This chapter explores how risk assessments at universities in the Global North revolve around...
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How to Research Policy?
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Steven Lewis and Rebecca Spratt
Published: 30 January 2024
...This chapter is concerned with how one might use policy mobilities and assemblage theory (PMAT) to empirically research policy movement, disrupting and problematizing assumptions around how to do policy research? Using Pacific regionalism in education policy as an illustrative example, the chapter...
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Introduction
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Emma Williamson and Marie Smyth
Published: 13 October 2004
...In February 2002, the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences organised a seminar in London to examine the theme of ‘Ethics and Research Guidelines’ from a diversity of perspectives. The majority of the participants and speakers of the event were social scientists with an interest...
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Policy from the pitch? Soccer and young refugee women in a shifting policy climate
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Catherine Palmer
Published: 11 June 2008
...This chapter explores some of the issues and challenges faced by a social researcher working in an Australian policy context. It is particularly concerned with the process and politics that underpinned an action research project conducted with a group of young Muslim, refugee women who play...
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Presence, voice and reflexivity in feminist and creative research: a personal and professional reflection
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Lucy Baldwin
Published: 18 May 2021
...This chapter highlights what is understood by feminist research, emphasising that it is research informed by broader feminist principles via its topic, design, process, analysis, and researcher reflexivity. It discusses how mothers themselves assisted in shaping the research decisions, research...
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Mobile Methodologies
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Banu Özkazanç-Pan
Published: 26 September 2019
... that move across scales and the specificity of experiences associated with mobile encounters. This chapter provides examples of work that can attend to these issues under the notion of “mobile methodologies”. Under this approach, researchers move with the research object/subject over time, place and space...
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Published: 13 October 2004
...This chapter asserts the centrality of the relationship between the ‘researcher’ and the ‘researched’ in the context of conducting a critical research on the use and abuse of power in state institutions. The chapter begins by discussing the criticism ‘from below’, that mainstream social sciences...
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Published: 19 February 2024
... subjectivities. For students and scholars of political violence, this tension persists in not only how they design their research, but also how they pitch their contributions to a given literature. This chapter investigates the tensions between discipline, epistemology, and method as it relates to studies...
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Beginnings and Biography
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Julia Brannen
Published: 15 November 2019
...This introductory chapter provides a brief biography of the author, offering a glimpse of the author's beginnings in the field of social research. This story is not intended to be a tale of individual endeavour but an examination of the times, concerns, and conditions in which the work of one...
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The Politics and Ethics of Fieldwork in Post-conflict Environments: The Dilemmas of a Vocational Approach
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John Heathershaw and Parviz Mullojonov
Published: 19 June 2020
.... This chapter focuses on the field research of John Heathershaw and Parviz Mullojonov. It illustrates the slippery slope that research in violent and closed contexts can be despite complying with the tight institutional ethics and risk assessment procedures of a UK university. It refers to the case...
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Ten Things to Consider Before, During and After Fieldwork in a Violent or Closed Context
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Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Morten Bøås
Published: 19 June 2020
...This chapter reviews themes that constitute ten points that all academics planning fieldwork-based research on international intervention should consider. It illustrates how even the most prepared or experienced researchers have struggled with the idea of control over the fieldwork-based research...