Ethics bureaucracies and student research

Posted on 22 July, 2009 by llwynn

When I arrived at Macquarie in 2007, I had big plans for my students.  I was scheduled to teach a postgraduate methods class, and I decided that the students were going to learn research methods by undertaking their own research project from start to finish and trying to publish the results.
“Crazy!” one of my colleagues [...]

Filed under: Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Education, Engagement, Ethics, Fieldwork, Macquarie, Macquarie Anthropology, publishing | Tagged: , , , , , , , | 5 Comments »

Making ethics training ethnography-friendly

Posted on 23 April, 2009 by llwynn

I’ve been meaning to write about an ethics project I’ve been working on, and now someone else has beaten me to it! Serves me right for neglecting poor Culture Matters for three weeks. I’ll tell you about the project and then I’ll tell you who has scooped me with a critique of my [...]

Filed under: Aboriginal Australia, Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Ethics, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, Macquarie Anthropology, ethnography | 6 Comments »

Anthropologie sans frontières: Interview with Dr Alice Corbet

Posted on 16 December, 2008 by Paul Mason

This post has been removed at the request of the author.

Filed under: "How does Culture Matter?", Anthropology, Fieldwork, Human rights, Migration, ethnography, military, war | 4 Comments »

Attack on social scientist in the Human Terrain System in Afghanistan

Posted on 13 November, 2008 by llwynn

Some sad news: Paula Lloyd, a social scientist on a Human Terrain Team in Afghanistan, was reportedly doused in gasoline and set on fire by a Taliban supporter.  According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Lloyd was interviewing a man about gasoline prices when the man, who was carrying a container of gasoline,  doused her [...]

Filed under: Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Fieldwork, In the news, military, war | Tagged: , , , | 4 Comments »

Do anthropologists have an advantage?

Posted on 26 February, 2008 by Jovan Maud

Here is a first post by PhD student Anne Monchamp. We are hoping that she will be heartened by this experience and will join us as a full-blown contributor.  JM.
Anthropologists do a lot of socializing.  I don’t just mean going for coffee or two hour lunches at the staff club, although that seems fairly prevalent [...]

Filed under: Anthropology, Fieldwork, Health & Illness | Tagged: | 1 Comment »

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