MANAGING YOUR RESEARCH
We are curating links and resources about researching during troubled and troubling times. This initiative aims to support scholars navigating uncertainty while maintaining clarity and purpose in their work. Just as careful research requires a balance between intuition and structure, digital environments that demand focus and engagement - such as city center online casino - demonstrate how design can influence attention and behavior even under pressure. If you come across additional resources or insights that could benefit others, please send us links via Twitter @anujacabraal and @ThomsonPat. Together, we can build a space of collective support and informed resilience.
FIELDWORK
Deborah Lupton’s Google doc on doing fieldwork during a pandemic
Link to Deborah's webinar on alt methods
Covid creatives digital resources (googledoc)
Helen Kara's creative research methods on you tube
Researching everyday life in place during the pandemic. Social life.
Patter's risk management planning post
Patricia Leavy on arts based methods on youtube
Kip Jones blog on performative social science
Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega’s @raulpacheco post about doing fieldwork during a pandemic
ONLINE METHODS
Five human centred design methods online. Martin Tomisch
Doing arts research in a pandemic - a compendium of resources from The culture capital exchange - pdf.
Deborah Lupton's youtube channel on innovative methods - this on mapmaking
Helen Kara's top three pandemic methods
Goldsmiths sociology Methods lab - paywalled readings, open video links and crowdsourced resources.
Digital qualitative research from Innsbruck
Series of posts on online methods, start with online focus groups.
Online research methods encyclopaedia chapter by Lynn Webb on research gate
Chloe Sharp's 7 top tools for online qualitative research
Interviews by email Sociological Research online
Online interviews by Skype Sociological Research online, The perils and pitfalls of using Skype for interviews ( NCRM)
and (paywalled) Deakin, H., & Wakefield, K. (2013). Skype interviewing: reflections of two PhD researchers. Qualitative Research, 14(5), doi:10.1177/1468794113488126
Desktop sharing and online interviewing from Dr Elizabeth Hidson
Digital ethnography with Sarah Pink video on youtube
NCRM online resources about research methods including online
Great twitter thread (and replies) for online interviews
Arch52 online interviewing issues
Using Zoom for online interviews
ETHICS
We understand that most university ethics committees are now banning face to face data work: this is vital for reducing potential harm. Because of this there may be a need to re apply for ethical approval for a modified research process.
This is the excellent tweet thread by Adam Jowett (@DrAdamJowett) on ethics
Slideshow on digital research ethics from Natasha Whiteman
Guidelines and issues from the Association of Internet Researchers
Summaries of Kandy Woodfield's edited collection on The ethics of online research