Ethnography

A dataset without a code book: ethnography and open science

This paper reflects upon calls for “open data” in ethnography, drawing on our experiences doing research on sexual violence. The core claim of this paper is not that open data is undesirable; it is that there is a lot we must know before we presume …

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: An Ethnographic Study of Researcher Discretion in Practice

This paper is a study of the decisions that researchers take during the execution of a research plan: their researcher discretion. Flexible research methods are generally seen as undesirable, and many methodologists urge to eliminate these so-called …