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SARAH ZAWACKI
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Why do you study that?
I attended a conference in the second year of my PhD, just as I was beginning my fieldwork. This conference wasn’t your standard academic...
Sarah Zawacki
May 17, 20194 min read
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The problem with 'vulnerability'
It’s taken as a self-evident truth: the Roma are vulnerable. Read any academic paper on the position of Roma in Europe; attend any...
Sarah Zawacki
Dec 5, 20183 min read
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All the best-laid plans...
In the UK, PhD students have three years to complete their research projects. This means three years to do all the background reading,...
Sarah Zawacki
Sep 14, 20182 min read
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Anatomy of a narrative interview
What do you do when your carefully planned interview topic guide goes off the rails? I’d thought interviewing would be easy. After all,...
Sarah Zawacki
Aug 25, 20183 min read
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When community-based research and policy collide
At some point in every social research project, the inevitable question arises: what is the point of all of this? I'd done 28 interviews,...
Sarah Zawacki
Aug 13, 20183 min read
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Meeting the Roma people
I entered into my PhD research on health in Roma communities as a total outsider. What followed was a crash-course in community...
Sarah Zawacki
Jul 19, 20184 min read
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