Collaborative Ethnography

Following on from my recent posting on digital methods seminars I wanted to write about another seminar series I’m involved in: “Collaborative ethnography as a model for public engagement”. The series is run by some of the other PhD students from The School of Education at The University of Sheffield.

The seminars aim to explore different ideas and perspectives on what collaborative research / ethnography means and how it does or could work. The initial ideas are very much based on the work of Lassiter (2008).

The first seminar explored the theme of planning research and how the attendees had used or planned to use a collaborative approach in their own work. There was a multidisciplinary feel to the attendees, with people from education, health care professions, biology and sociology (to name a few), and it was really insightful to hear of the work being undertaken in other subject areas.

The focus of the second seminar, coming later this month will be on method and data collection as a collaborative process.

For further details as the seminars take place, see: http://collaborativeethnography.blogspot.co.uk/

Lassiter, L. (2008) Moving past public anthropology and doing collaborative research. NAPA BULLETIN 29, pp. 70–86.