<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Probably fo interest.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Stay safe,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Gianluca</div><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>Gianluca Miscione<br>University College Dublin<br><a href="http://www.ucd.ie/cito/members/gianlucamiscione" target="_blank">http://www.ucd.ie/cito/members/gianlucamiscione</a><br><br><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">ethnography, Resource</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:ethnography@wbs.ac.uk">ethnography@wbs.ac.uk</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:27 PM<br>Subject: Ethnography Circle Goes Online for Fifth Session<br>To: ethnography, Resource <<a href="mailto:ethnography@wbs.ac.uk">ethnography@wbs.ac.uk</a>><br></div><br><br>




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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">One of the things that Covid-19 has significantly affected is fieldwork. Many of us are having to rethink our data collection strategies while
 plans and proposals for research have also been put on hold. How do we deal with this?  </span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">To find some responses you are invited to join and contribute to the first<span> </span><b>virtual ethnography circle</b><span> </span>30^th April
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">“Help! My field-site has evaporated, what do I do now?”</span></b><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">We hope to use the Ethnography Circle platform to see if as a research community we can think through and share some insights into potential
 strategies for data collection when traditional ethnography is not possible.  We have already seen researchers coming together to think through novel ways of doing fieldwork in a pandemic (check<span> </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/2X6s4XA" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">this</span></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><span> </span>document).
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