IJMR Young Research Writer award 2011 Finalist: Auto-ethnography - how respondent researchers helped bring ethnography in from the cold

Charlie Richards

A runner-up finalist entry to the first IJMR Young Research Writer award. In this, the author argues the case for applying an innovative ethnographic-based methodology to answer the question 'How do we understand how people have come to be doing what they are doing?' The biography of respondents is highlighted as being essential for research - pasts must be considered as well the present.

IJMR Young Research Writer award 2011 Finalist: Auto-ethnography – how respondent researchers helped bring ethnography in from the cold

Charlie Richards

Spring Research

Judges’ citation

The author argues the case for applying an innovative ethnographic-based methodology to answer the question ‘How do we understand how people have come to be doing what they are doing?’ In selecting this entry as a finalist, the judges commented on its engaging structure, which contained flashes of real lucidity and brilliance in content. Supporting evidence was imaginative, and the illustrative case study contained insightful interpretation to highlight the methodological challenge.

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