COVID-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has proven to significantly affect the current state of life and work of early-career fieldworkers and ethnographers, as they have had to manage the subsequent restrictions imposed on their fieldwork. Based on discussion at the Research Infrastructures and Emotional Challenges workshop, we highlight the challenges faced by
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made a large impact on global society, but one group has been affected by it substantially – that is, university students and junior scholars. Prospective academics around the world are having to deal with numerous obstacles from physical limitations to mental ones. A wave of students
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Mobility is a key criterion for assessing academic excellence. International mobility undoubtedly allows junior researchers to have essential experiences and broaden their networks. Nevertheless, the difficulties that go along with mobility – relocation of family members, administrative burdens, and informal connections with the host institution – can reduce these potential
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There are two kinds of uncertainties we as researchers are faced with: There are those things we are aware of that we do not know, but also those we are unaware of that we do not know. Dealing with this range of uncertainties can be demanding in ‘normal’ times and
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The pandemic impacted people’s transnational movements as well as research on mobility and migration. As a Ph.D. student doing multi-sited research, I used to cross national borders several times a year to do fieldwork, but suddenly I was forced to immobilize. What happened next, to me as a researcher, to
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