Teaching Field Research with Jesse Driscoll, Milli Lake, and Sarah Parkinson

03/23/21 • 81 min

We welcome Jesse Driscoll from UCSD, Milli Lake from the London School of Economics, and Sarah Parkinson from Johns Hopkins University to talk about teaching field research. How can we teach others how to think about, prepare for, and carry out ethical, valuable field research? All of our guests have taught field research methods to undergraduate and graduate students. In addition, Milli and Sarah run a growing consortium on conducting research in fragile and violence-affected environments, and Jesse just published an educational book on doing global fieldwork. If you want to start teaching about field research (or improve your current approach), this is the episode for you!
Producer: Harper Barbaree
Editors: Zeyad Anwar, Abigail Hamilton, Garrett Madden, Gabriel Wallen, Lila Zarella

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Producers: Harper Barbaree, John Gehman, Gabriel Wallen
Editors: Sam Biasi, Shavonne Farell, Alyssa Iferenta, Madison Sarka

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Producer: Harper Barbaree
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