Exorcising an ethnography in limbo

  • Katy Vigurs*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationStudies in Qualitative Methodology
    PublisherEmerald Publishing
    Pages133-146
    Number of pages14
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - 2019

    Publication series

    NameStudies in Qualitative Methodology
    Volume17
    ISSN (Print)1042-3192

    Funding

    A member of the BV partnership (Howard Barber) was on the PhD interview panel as well as my two academic supervisors. It transpired that Howard had met one of my supervisors at a public event and this supervisor had raised the idea of attaching a PhD researcher to the project, an idea previously not entertained by BV. Howard, a senior manager, then gained funding from his employer (a multinational telecommunications company) to financially support a PhD for three years. When I entered the field the partnership could still be described as nascent, even though it had been developing incrementally for nearly 12 months. At this early stage the partnership had four visible partners: Alan Grogan (local councillor), Ronnie Smith (local businessman), Ann Harrison (a local voluntary sector project manager) and Howard Barber (a private sector national programme manager and personal friend of Ronnie Smith). Over the next two years a further eight partners became involved.

    Keywords

    • Emotional labour
    • Ethnography
    • Participant conflict
    • Researcher discomforearly career researcher

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