Photo/Stories from the field: Can we play now?
Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas talks about child participants’ own research agendas, and using playing and games as methodology
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Author: Sevasti-Melissa Nolas
Photo/Stories from the field: ‘I hope we are not boring you?’
Dr Sevasti-Melissa Nolas talks parenthood, work-life balance, and the challenge of sleep-deprivation when conducting social research
Read MorePhoto/Stories from the field: Sampling in the wild
I spent the time between September 2014 until August 2015 creating the London ‘sample’ and from January 2014 onwards was also doing fieldwork with the children as they started to join the study. The study is based on a heterogeneous sample that is emblematic of different life experiences as those relate to each city. That …
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Forty-five children and their families across each city (Athens, Hyderabad, London) have taken part in the Connectors Study. Our initial fieldwork with these children and families lasted 18 months from October 2014 until May 2016. During this time we made between five and seven documented visits – meaning that various methods were attempted and visits …
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On April 26 this year I had the opportunity to participate and contribute to a workshop on improving responses to child sexual exploitation (CSE) that was organised by the University of Bedfordshire’s International Centre Researching Child Sexual Exploitation, Violence and Trafficking. I don’t know anything about CSE, although a couple of the publicised cases in …
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