The course aims at encouraging a critical reflection on qualitative
research methods that can be used in fragile contexts and sensitive
research areas. This course will focus on important aspects to take into
consideration when doing fieldwork in fragile contexts, such as
researcher’s positionality, self-reflexivity, and access to the field;
interacting with vulnerable populations; practical, ethical, and social
implications of the research; psychological repercussions for the
researcher; research limitations and challenges; participants and
researcher’s security in authoritarian and violent contexts; doing
fieldwork during and after the Covid-19 pandemic; decolonizing
methodologies. The course will be organized in form of weekly meetings.
This seminar is particularly suitable for students of migration and
refugee studies, gender studies, or humanitarian studies who are
expected to carry out field research.
- Course owner: Dr Irene Tuzi