Capturing habitus: theory, method and reflexivity
By Cristina Costa, Ciaran Burke and Mark Murphy This is the title of a recent paper by some of the...
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Tag: research methods
New Bloomsbury book series: Social theory and methodology in education research
Education research has a long history of adapting ideas from social theory. While this has always...
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Positionality and my PhD
In this post I delve into some of the questions I asked myself during my journey through the...
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Dramatic encounters: My methodological engagement with Foucault [PART 2]
This carries on from the previous blog post that explored policy reception in terms of...
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Capturing the complexity of youth crime through habitus
[part of the launch week for the book: Bourdieu, Habitus and Social Research: The art of...
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1st Research Methodology School – What needs to be done?
Why is it important to raise this question? There has been a push in social science towards...
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What does it mean to take a position? Researchers and the researched
One of the most important considerations for the researcher is the position they occupy in...
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What are the benefits and drawbacks of case study research?
There should be no doubt that with case studies what you gain in depth you lose in breadth – this...
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Textbooking: Research and education
This year I wrote ‘Research and education’ with Will Curtis and Sam Shields and it was published...
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The challenge of accessing data: my PhD journey so far
By Nighet Riaz This is the first of two posts based on my recent presentation at the BERA...
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How do you analyse qualitative data? A supervisor speaks
How do people – research students in particular – make sense of large amounts of qualitative data?...
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