Sarah Zawacki
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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SARAH ZAWACKI
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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...
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,...
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,...
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,...
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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