Sarah ZawackiMay 17, 20194 minWhy 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 ZawackiDec 5, 20183 minThe 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 ZawackiSep 14, 20182 minAll 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 ZawackiAug 25, 20183 minAnatomy of a narrative interviewWhat do you do when your carefully planned interview topic guide goes off the rails? I’d thought interviewing would be easy. After all,...
Sarah ZawackiAug 13, 20183 minWhen community-based research and policy collideAt 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 ZawackiJul 19, 20184 minMeeting the Roma peopleI entered into my PhD research on health in Roma communities as a total outsider. What followed was a crash-course in community...