-
Continue reading →: Reflexive Practice and my new book (ICYMI)
My book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit is to be published by Policy Press in March. One of the things I discuss in Chapter 2 is what Michaela Benson and I call reflexive practice (see our Open Access article, below). First, we use the concept of reflexive practice to…
-
Continue reading →: Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone
My book is about to be submitted to Policy Press!! I’m so excited. It is full of new ideas, tips, and insights, and I am going to start sharing them here soon.
-
Continue reading →: Two exciting new things
I’m working on a new project. it is called Picking for Britain, and it Examines the experiences of agricultural employers and British harvest workers during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond https://www.glos.ac.uk/academic-schools/natural-and-social-sciences/Pages/picking-for-britain.aspx And I am now a a member of the Standing Review Board of the Research Grants Council and University Grants Committee,…
-
Continue reading →: How do you DO reflexivity? See this open access article
Michaela Benson and I have had this article published in Qualitative Research. Here is the full reference: 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 And here is the abstract: This…
-
Continue reading →: Interview with the Instituto Cervantes, Manchester
Just before Christmas I was interviewed by Pedro, from the Instituto Cervantes Manchester about why British people love to move to Spain. It was a really fun, if nerve-wracking thing to do. If you feel that way inclined you can watch the YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sjnLYeJ9d8
-
Continue reading →: How to evaluate qualitative research
People on my qualitative methods training courses often ask me how they can demonstrate the value of qualitative research when it appears to be so subjective or anecdotal, small scale or not generalisable. Well I have many and varied answers to this, but in this blog post I will focus on just a few. I…
-
Continue reading →: Qualitative research: producing understandings and insights rather than ‘findings’
The outcome of qualitative research would be better understood in terms of insights, understandings, and critical analyses, rather than findings.





