37 min
Listen Up! Reflections on being a research participant as part of an online ethnography Research @ OU Graduate School
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- Society & Culture
In this episode, Sarah Huxley, a third year PhD student at the OU, speaks with one of her research participants, Nora Dooley, a staff member with the not for profit, Coaches Across Continents (CAC). They discuss Nora’s advice for qualitative researchers, especially those considering/ already engaged with an online ethnography. The conversation covers Nora’s ‘do’s and don’ts’ for researchers, as well as her reflections on surprises during data gathering, challenges, and ultimately if she found the research process fun? Sarah sums up the episode by reflecting upon her approach to the research process as one of ‘disciplined improvisation’ (based on the notion by RK Sawyer, 2004). As well as the possibilities that the pandemic has catalysed in relation to thinking about online embodied ethnography. Enjoy!
A special thanks to: Nora Dooley from Coaches Across Continents https://coachesacrosscontinents.org/ for contributing her ideas and voice, and to Mark Childs from Pedagodzilla https://www.pedagodzilla.com/ for providing podcasting advice and support! It was much needed.
Reference: Sawyer, R. K. (2004) ‘Creative Teaching: Collaborative Discussion as Disciplined Improvisation’, Educational Researcher, 33(2), pp. 12–20. doi: 10.3102/0013189X033002012.
Sarah's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AidHoover
In this episode, Sarah Huxley, a third year PhD student at the OU, speaks with one of her research participants, Nora Dooley, a staff member with the not for profit, Coaches Across Continents (CAC). They discuss Nora’s advice for qualitative researchers, especially those considering/ already engaged with an online ethnography. The conversation covers Nora’s ‘do’s and don’ts’ for researchers, as well as her reflections on surprises during data gathering, challenges, and ultimately if she found the research process fun? Sarah sums up the episode by reflecting upon her approach to the research process as one of ‘disciplined improvisation’ (based on the notion by RK Sawyer, 2004). As well as the possibilities that the pandemic has catalysed in relation to thinking about online embodied ethnography. Enjoy!
A special thanks to: Nora Dooley from Coaches Across Continents https://coachesacrosscontinents.org/ for contributing her ideas and voice, and to Mark Childs from Pedagodzilla https://www.pedagodzilla.com/ for providing podcasting advice and support! It was much needed.
Reference: Sawyer, R. K. (2004) ‘Creative Teaching: Collaborative Discussion as Disciplined Improvisation’, Educational Researcher, 33(2), pp. 12–20. doi: 10.3102/0013189X033002012.
Sarah's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AidHoover
37 min