Current training opportunities:
Karen O’Reilly is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Loughborough University, Visiting Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, and Trustee of the Sociological Review Foundation. She is also a freelance Qualitative Social Research Trainer, providing bespoke and standard courses.
Karen has taught ethnographic and qualitative methods for over 30 years, including the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Collection and Analysis, and the Swiss Summer School in Social Science Methods, in Lugano. She has taught qualitative research at the Universities of Aberdeen, Essex, Loughborough and Oxford, as well as in universities in Germany, Hong Kong, Norway and Switzerland. She has also delivered training for (among others) UK Parliament, Department of Work and Pensions, Pearson Education, charities, private research organisations, HMRC, the UK Home Office, and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary.
Current training opportunities:
- Qualitative Interviewing
- Designing a qualitative study
- Conducting Focus Groups and Group Interviews
- Online/digital qualitative interviews
- Creative interviewing techniques
- Interviews with children and vulnerable groups/sensitive topics
- Ethnography and Participant Observation
- Thematic (interpretive) Analysis
- Grounded Theory
- Writing Qualitative Research
News: My book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit was published by Policy Press in March. I post news and insights here from time to time. There is also a Podcast: Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone
Other News:
Rural Labour Migrants Johan Fredrik Rye and Karen O’Reilly (eds) (2020) International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions. Routledge
Brexit and Brits Abroad To find out about our recently completed research into what Brexit means for UK nationals living in the EU27, visit the project website.
Reflexivity as Practice Benson, M. and O’Reilly, K. (2020) Reflexive Practice in Live Sociology: Lessons fromresearching Brexit in the lives of British Citizens living in the EU-27, Qualitative Research
Latest book on Lifestyle Migration Benson, M. and O’Reilly, K. (2018) Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama Palgrave
British in Spain Listen to me talking about British in Spain with Instituto Cervantes in Manchester https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sjnLYeJ9d8
Karen is a highly experienced ethnographer whose many publications include two widely cited books on ethnography: Ethnographic Methods (Routledge, 2nd ed. 2012) and Key Concepts in Ethnography (Sage, 2009), and a monograph The British on the Costa del Sol (Routledge 2000).
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