Sam talks with Dr Kris McBain-Rigg, a medical anthropologist from James Cook University.

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Et Al is a qualitative research podcast by two PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

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Sam and McArthur read through some examples of predatory publishing, and discuss why interviews have become so common in qualitative research, and what they can actually tell us.

Paper discussion starts at 15:57.

Paper:

Silverman, D. (2017). How was it for you? The Interview Society and the irresistible rise of the (poorly analyzed) interview. Qualitative Research, 17(2), 144-158. doi:10.1177/1468794116668231

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Et Al is a qualitative research podcast by two PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @etalpodcast / @s_brookfield / @mc4rthur

Instagram: @s_brookfield

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A conversation with Professor Carla Treloar from UNSW, talking about the applicability of qualitative research, bridging applied research and conceptual analysis, the value of community representatives, and the definition of addiction.

Episode Links:

UNSW Community Reference Panel

- csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/centre/community-reference-panel/

- [email protected]

www.livesofsubstance.org

Prof. Treloar’s podcast:

- soundcloud.com/unsw-speakeasy-podcast

Crystal Clear podcast:

- https://soundcloud.com/crystal-clear-podcast

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Et Al is a qualitative research podcast by two PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @etalpodcast / @s_brookfield / @mc4rthur

Instagram: @s_brookfield

Patreon.com/samuelbrookfield

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A conversation between Sam and Dr Britta Wigginton from the University of Queensland. They discuss the nature of knowledge, the power of legitimation, and Britta's experiences falling down the 'rabbit hole' of qualitative research and its complexity.

Papers and Links:

Britta’s podcast: anchor.fm/theoperativeword

Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77-101. doi:10.1191/1478088706qp063oa

Crossley, M. L. (2009). Breastfeeding as a moral imperative: An autoethnographic study. Feminism & psychology, 19(1), 71-87.

Magnusson, E., & Marecek, J. (2015). Analyzing stories in interviews. In Doing Interview-based Qualitative Research: A Learner's Guide (pp. 102-122). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781107449893.009

Wigginton, B., & Lafrance, M. N. (2019). Learning critical feminist research: A brief introduction to feminist epistemologies and methodologies. Feminism & Psychology, 0(0), 1-17.

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Et Al is a qualitative research podcast by two PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @etalpodcast / @s_brookfield / @mc4rthur

Instagram: @s_brookfield

This time the lads review an example of participatory sensory ethnography, and get deep talking about memory, what it is, and how we should think about it.

Papers:

Lanka, S. V. An ecological auto ethnography of a Monarch Butterfly. In J. Atkins & B. Atkins (Eds.), Around the World in 8- Species - Exploring the Business of Extinction: Routledge.

Stevenson, A. (2014). We Came Here to Remember: Using Participatory Sensory Ethnography to Explore Memory as Emplaced, Embodied Practice. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 11(4), 335-349. doi:10.1080/14780887.2014.908990

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Et Al is a qualitative research podcast by two PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @etalpodcast / @s_brookfield / @mc4rthur

Instagram: @s_brookfield

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Sam presents the first in a series of interviews with qualitative researchers, discussing the role and value of qualitative data, the university environment, and advice for researchers wishing to make a foray into the qualitative world.

This interview is with Dr. Lisa Fitzgerald, a public health sociologist at the University of Queensland.

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Et Al is a qualitative research podcast by two PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @etalpodcast / @s_brookfield / @mc4rthur

Instagram: @s_brookfield

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At last they're back! Sam and McArthur review an article discussing the concept of 'Traumatic Landscapes' in the context of addiction.

Main article: Proudfoot, J. (2019). Traumatic landscapes: Two geographies of addiction. Social Science & Medicine, 228, 194-201. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.03.020

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Et Al is a qualitative research podcast by two PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @etalpodcast / @s_brookfield / @mc4rthur

Instagram: @s_brookfield

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Sam and McArthur review an ethnographic article examining the 'bush doof' culture, in the context of the current War on Festivals raging in Australia.

Main article: Tramacchi, D. (2010). Field Tripping: Psychedelic communitas and Ritual in the Australian Bush. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 15(2), 201-213. doi:10.1080/13537900050005976

Other papers:

Smith, D. (2017). What is the body without organs? Machine and organism in Deleuze and Guattari. Continental Philosophy Review, 51(1), 95-110. doi: 10.1007/s11007-016-9406-0

Luckman, S. (2010). Going Bush and Finding One's 'Tribe': Raving, escape and the bush doof. Continuum, 17(3), 315-330. doi: 10.1080/10304310302729

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Et Al is a qualitative research podcast by two PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @etalpodcast / @s_brookfield / @mc4rthur

Instagram: @s_brookfield

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Sam describes his PhD project, using ethnography to understand methamphetamine use. He and McArthur discuss the politics of language around illicit drug use, the definition of addiction, and the intersection between drugs and culture.

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Et Al is a podcast about the PhD experience by two actual, real life PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @etalpodcast / @s_brookfield / @mc4rthur

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Sam and McArthur revisit the topic of conferences and publishing with new experiences, discuss the recent gender article hoax controversy, and how public money should be spent on research.

Et Al is a podcast about the PhD experience by two actual, real life PhD students. Sam is studying public health, and McArthur is studying cognitive science.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @etalpodcast / @s_brookfield / @mc4rthur

Instagram: @s_brookfield

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