Finding Your Feet in the Field: Critical Reflections of Early Career Researchers on Field Research in Transitional Societies
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...Structuring the section in this manner also makes it possible to chart a roughly chronological path that relates to the project’s prefieldwork, during-fieldwork and post-fieldwork phases, all of which need to be given due attention (Browne and Moffett 2014: 233-235)....
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...The security of data is an important issue, especially if these are sensitive (Browne and Moffett 2014: 227 and 230)....
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...Something noted during fieldwork, however, was the 106 sense of frustration that individuals and communities sometimes experience in engaging with researchers (Browne and Moffett 2014: 229)....
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...…manuals often contain lists of legal and ethical issues to take into consideration (Bryman 2008: 118; Sarantakos 2005: 17-24), while it is generally held that undertaking research in violent contexts serves to heighten certain types of research risk (Browne and Moffett 2014; Ganiel 2013)....
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...Browne and Moffett (2014) refer to the importance of cultivating links with local communitybased organizations or academic institutions to make research both easier and safer....
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...…is an ethical dilemma for all researchers studying emotionally sensitive material not just peace and conflict researchers, but in the latter field, secondary or vicarious traumatisation of the people only nominally involved in the research is a real risk (see Browne and Moffett, 2014: 227)....
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...…383–384), and had to be willing to accept the constraints that come with this, as well as becoming reconciled to an unusually high reliance on gatekeepers (Browne and Moffett, 2014: 228), which brought with it the attendant problem of finding the right gatekeepers (Browne and Moffett, 2014: 228)....
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...In this last respect, they emphasised the importance of reciprocity as an ethical obligation on researchers, which they refer to as knowledge exchange back to respondents (Browne and Moffett, 2014: 229)....
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...Some translators can shape answers to confirm to their own views, or translate information in a manner they believe the researcher may want to hear (Jacobsen and Landau, 2003: 9)....
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