Fieldwork

Sarah Zawacki

May 17, 20194 min read

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

Dec 5, 20183 min read

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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Sarah Zawacki

Sep 14, 20182 min read

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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Sarah Zawacki

Aug 25, 20183 min read

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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Sarah Zawacki

Aug 13, 20183 min read

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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Sarah Zawacki

Jul 19, 20184 min read

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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