Conducting fieldwork in hard-to-reach communities can pose significant challenges. Sarah G. Zawacki‘s research focuses on health in Roma migrant communities and to overcome participants’ initial wariness and mistrust she constructed a data collection strategy in which she was as much a community advocate as a researcher. It is through such active involvement with hard-to-reach communities, and by placing their impressions […]
Category: researcher engagement
IDCC15 What do we need? – Gathering RDM infrastructure requirements.
The Birds of a Feather sessions are a new addition to the roster at IDCC and offer the opportunity for people to get together with like-minded delegates and really explore a specific issue in some depth. I attended a packed session discussing the issue…