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...

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 meetin...

In the UK, PhD students have three years to complete their research projects. This means three years to do all the background reading, de...

What do you do when your carefully planned interview topic guide goes off the rails? I’d thought interviewing would be easy. After all, I...

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,...

I entered into my PhD research on health in Roma communities as a total outsider. What followed was a crash-course in community engagemen...