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Category Archives: research methods

  1. Connecting your specific research to broader questions in the literature, the field and the discipline November 15, 2024

    Posted in academia, research, research design, research methods.

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  2. On framing, the value of narrative and storytelling in scholarly research, and the importance of asking the “what is this a story of” question April 3, 2023

    Posted in academia, research, research methods, writing.

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  3. Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research (my reading notes) September 22, 2022

    Posted in academia, qualitative methods, reading notes, research, research methods.

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  4. A partial, commented bibliography on focus groups August 28, 2022

    Posted in academia, qualitative methods, research methods.

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  5. The logic of research inquiry and the use of the puzzle approach in research design August 27, 2022

    Posted in academia, research, research methods.

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  6. On writing about, thinking and teaching research methods. April 23, 2022

    Posted in academia, fieldwork, research, research methods, teaching, writing.

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  7. We lack serious training in research methods choice and selection November 15, 2021

    Posted in academia, research, research methods, teaching.

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  8. How to write field notes (and how to teach the writing of fieldnotes) October 12, 2021

    Posted in academia, fieldwork, qualitative methods, research methods, writing.

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  9. Delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, performed with an example (on hospital ethnography) March 22, 2021

    Posted in academia, research, research methods.

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  10. Skimming articles using the AIC (Abstract, Introduction, Conclusion) Method, plus an AIC-> Synthetic Note Template for undergraduates (and graduates!) January 28, 2021

    Posted in academia, research, research methods, writing.

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  11. Using ethnographic field notes in the actual writing of a paper January 19, 2021

    Posted in academia, qualitative methods, research, research methods, writing.

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  12. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers (my reading notes) November 10, 2020

    Posted in academia, research methods, writing.

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  13. Writing by memorandums April 29, 2020

    Posted in academia, research, research methods, writing.

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  14. On the value of annotated bibliographies as scholarly outputs April 17, 2020

    Posted in academia, research, research methods, writing.

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  15. Pivoting away from specific research topics when fieldwork is impossible to do April 6, 2020

    Posted in academia, research, research methods.

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  16. Mathematical epidemiology, the COVID-19 pandemic and the limits and uncertainties of models March 18, 2020

    Posted in academia, research, research methods.

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  17. Fieldwork in the Times of COVID-19: Doing Ethnography During a Pandemic March 17, 2020

    Posted in academia, qualitative methods, research, research methods.

    4 comments
  18. A sequential framework for teaching how to write good research questions March 4, 2020

    Posted in academia, research, research methods.

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  19. Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again (my reading notes) January 13, 2020

    Posted in academia, research, research methods.

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  20. On the importance of teaching robust work using qualitative methods in the social sciences December 27, 2019

    Posted in academia, qualitative methods, research, research methods.

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  21. “Doubly Engaged Ethnography: Opportunities and Challenges When Working With Vulnerable Communities” – my IJQM article with @KateParizeau September 4, 2019

    Posted in academia, ethnography, research, research methods, waste.

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  22. Suggestions on qualitative research methods’ articles and books for graduate students September 4, 2019

    Posted in academia, research, research methods.

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  23. The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (my reading notes) May 1, 2019

    Posted in academia, research, research methods, writing.

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  24. Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences (my reading notes) September 29, 2018

    Posted in academia, research, research methods.

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  25. Qualitative research is empirical research – stop equating “empirical” with quantitative September 10, 2018

    Posted in academia, research methods.

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