The PG Cafe team are pleased to announce that the first meeting of the Autumn semester will take place in the Glamorgan Building Senior Common Room on Wednesday 11th October at 5pm. Entitled, "Aliens in the Field", PhD students Pam Robinson and David Mellor will discuss their doctoral research in fieldwork situations where they were conspicuous outsiders.
Outlines of the talks are provided below.
Look forward to seeing you there.
The PG Team.
Pam Robinson - Researching in the Field: Literally!
In this brief talk I will share some of the experiences of researching in thebanana fields of Costa Rica, where I was investigating the labour conditions ofworkers who help supply one of the most popular fruits to the UK. I willdescribe what it was like to be a researcher in an environment that waschallenging both physically and culturally. I will outline a few of my copingstrategies for dealing with the mozzies, spiders and snakes, living in a newlanguage and the creation of a 'self' that helped gain the respect andcollaboration of my informants.
David Mellor - Researching with children: practices and problematics
In this short talk I will address the central issues about doing research with as opposed to 'on') children. In doing this, I will unpack and critique ideas about children's participation in research, and the argument that the ethnographer should adopt the 'least adult' role when doing fieldwork with children. I will also explain why it is vital for ethnographers to forefront children's own cultures of communication when trying to understand subjectivity and solidarity in their everyday worlds.
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