Karen O'Reilly

Last week, at the end of a long day training in the art of qualitative interviewing, one of the course participants asked me: ‘but how can we show it is not just all anecdotal?’. I felt frustrated, to say the least, but I must have failed somewhere in my explanations…

A plea to include the people, stories, and lives in qualitative research writing, and to avoid Disembodied Quotes When I am delivering Research Methods Training, I often ask participants to please try to avoid using disembodied quotes when writing up, or presenting. I thought it was time I clarified what…

I spent a really lovely few days in Edinburgh recently providing training for The SRA. The courses were Designing Qualitative Research; Qualitative Interviewing; Conducting Focus Groups. All three courses were full up, with waiting lists, and the participants were fantastic – so much expertise and enthusiasm in one room! Some…

What does Brexit mean for the 1.2 million British citizens living in the EU27?  BrExpats: freedom of movement, citizenship and Brexit in the Lives of Britons resident in the EU27  is an innovative sociological study  that questions what Brexit means for Britons resident in other European Union member states. Working closely with…

A major new study is to examine the impact of Brexit on the lives of the estimated 1.2 million British citizens living in other European Union member states. I am delighted to be working with Dr Michaela Benson on this prestigious project. BrExpats is one of 25 successful research projects taking…

I am teaching Ethnography at two summer schools this year. One at the Essex Summer School. My course is already fully booked but you can still apply to be on the waiting list. The other is the Swiss Summer School in Social Science Methods, in Lugano, Switzerland. Hurry if you want to apply for…