What People Are Saying

 TNE’s approach to pre-fieldwork training runs counter to institutionalized approaches of risk management: it acknowledges fieldwork’s inherent messiness and ethnographers’ emotional and embodied entanglements, while inviting participants to rethink the language of ‘risk’ and ‘danger’. Thus, this was not an instruction for ‘dangerous’ fieldwork – rather, the workshop broadened students’ understanding of how different forms of vulnerability and privilege may intersect. ….

What I valued most about the TNE workshop was its innovative group exercises in sessions on conducting interviews, gender, ethics and crafting one’s ‘fieldwork persona’, skilfully moderated by post-fieldwork PhD students and post-docs.

See the full review here, by Dr Ann-Christin Zuntz, Lecturer in Anthropology of Development, Edinburgh University