The updated Fourth Edition of Gretchen B. Rossman and Sharon F. Rallis's popular
introductory text leads the new researcher into the field by explaining the core concepts …

This article aims to help researchers think about some big-picture challenges that occur in
the early stages of fieldwork. In particular, we address the transition from a clear, concise …

The land diving ritual or naghol of South Pentecost Vanuatu is living proof of how tourism
heightens community tensions when traditional culture is commercialised. Kastom, an …

This paper is concerned with processes of international enquiry. It focuses upon the
relationship between a research problem and access to conduct research in a country. It …

Scientific validity has historically been measured against notions of objectivity. However, try
as we might, we cannot divorce ourselves from our own personal interests and perceptions …

Field research can consist of trekking across the globe to study peoples in exotic cultural
settings. It can also mean strapping on your running shoes and observing behavior at the …

In Ghana, over 70% of urban dwellers do not have private sanitation facilities in their home
and rely instead on an informal network of shared toilets. The predominance of shared …

This thesis was strongly motivated by the desire to examine the sustainability of community-
based coping strategies for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in the rural …

Urban agriculture (UA) in the developing world is widely framed as being essentially a
survival and coping strategy, practised primarily by the poor, and is promoted for the …

The aim of this thesis is to shed light on possible reasons for the stagnation in the
participation rate of women in the Malaysian workforce by focusing on the phenomenon of …