SARAH ZAWACKI

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    Why do you study that?
    Sarah Zawacki
    • May 17, 2019
    • 4 min

    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...
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    The problem with 'vulnerability'
    Sarah Zawacki
    • Dec 5, 2018
    • 3 min

    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...
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    All the best-laid plans...
    Sarah Zawacki
    • Sep 14, 2018
    • 2 min

    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,...
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    Anatomy of a narrative interview
    Sarah Zawacki
    • Aug 25, 2018
    • 3 min

    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,...
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    When community-based research and policy collide
    Sarah Zawacki
    • Aug 13, 2018
    • 3 min

    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,...
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    Meeting the Roma people
    Sarah Zawacki
    • Jul 19, 2018
    • 4 min

    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...
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