Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology: Approaches, Tools and Ethics (PRIO)
February 11th, 2015 by Niels
Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/02/2015 - 13/02/2015
All Day
Location
PRIO
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This course prepares participants for conducting fieldwork and using fieldwork data in social-science research. By ‘fieldwork’ we mean data collection through face-to-face interaction with people in their daily lives, using participant observation, interviews, or a combination of the two. The course pays particular attention to the challenges of doing fieldwork in challenging circum-stances, such as those that are often encountered in research on peace and conflict, or in the con-texts of migration and displacement. The sessions roughly follow the chronology from pre-fieldwork planning to post-fieldwork representation of data, and address both practical and prin-ciple concerns at each stage. Discussions of ethical challenges are integrated throughout. Rather than attempting to provide blueprint answers, the course seeks to help participants reflect upon the dilemmas and challenges of fieldwork and make informed decisions for their own research.
