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Writing Across Boundaries: reflections on the place of writing in doctoral research training for social scientists

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Robin Humphrey

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Abstract

In the training of doctoral researchers in the use of qualitative research methods, considerable effort goes into preparation for fieldwork and the collection of data. Rather less attention, however, goes into what happens when they have collected their data and begin to make sense of it. In particular, relatively little attention has been paid to the ways in which doctoral researchers might be supported as they begin to write using qualitative data. In this article we report on an inter-disciplinary project that set out to develop research training for qualitative researchers who had completed their fieldwork and were about to embark on writing their theses. An important issue in the delivery of this training was the question of boundaries – disciplinary, academic, technological and personal - and how these might be productively negotiated in the quest for good social science writing.


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Author(s): Simpson B, Humphrey R

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Learning and Teaching

Year: 2010

Volume: 3

Issue: 1

Pages: 69-91

Print publication date: 01/03/2010

ISSN (print): 1755-2281

ISSN (electronic): 1755-2273

Publisher: Berghahn Books Ltd

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2010.030105

DOI: 10.3167/latiss.2010.030105


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