Outreach
Team work makes the field work
Spread The Word
Follow along with our team as we spread the word about the Digital Fieldwork project! This page describes outreach team members do, ranging from events and appearances to publications to podcast features. Any upcoming events will always be at the top of the page, so check back often.
May 2022
A roundtable at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress
Alison Post (UC Berkeley), Jessica Rich (Marquette), Brian Palmer-Rubin (Marquette) and Jennifer Cyr (DiTella, Buenos Aires, Argentina) gathered for a roundtable (chaired by Diana Kapiszewski) to share insights on new strategies for conducting digital fieldwork and integrating digital and traditional fieldwork.
April 2022
Midwest Political Science Association meetings
Two members of the Digital Fieldwork team presented key activities and insights from the Digital Fieldwork website at a Panel on Qualitative methods for the MPSA annual meetings.
April 2022
A virtual talk at the University of Minnesota
Lauren MacLean gave a virtual talk on digital fieldwork to the Department of Political Science Methods Colloquium, attended by graduate students and faculty.
February 2022
A discussion with an Indiana University course
Our team joined the Qualitative Research Methods in Communication course at Indiana University taught by Professor Esi Thompson. The students had excellent questions about how to engage in digital fieldwork.
February 2022
An African Studies Association Roundtable
Navigating “Digital Fieldwork” in Hard Times: Some innovative ideas from scholars in the field
The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted the conduct of field research. Yet, fieldwork has been, and will continue to be, out-of-reach for many scholars around the world. This roundtable considers the ways that scholars engage in so-called “Digital Fieldwork” and highlights a new website that collects these resources.
October 2021
An interview with the #AsiaNow blog
October 2021
A "Table" at the APSA Methods Café
Lahra and Lauren hosted a “table” at the 2021 APSA Methods Café. The topic was “Field Research in COVID Contexts.” Learn more about the Methods Café and other “table” topics in this study: Interpretive Methodologies and Methods (IMM) Events APSA 2021
September 2021
Our talk with a University of Michigan graduate seminar
August 2021
Check out this episode of Ufahamu Africa
MAY 2021
Feature in APSA Migration & Citizenship Newsletter
The American Political Science Association’s Spring 2021 Newsletter on Migration and Citizenship featured our project! Read the newsletter here.
FALL 2020
Read our blurb in the QMMR Fall 2020 Newsletter
We shared information about our website and project in the Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (QMMR) Fall 2020 Newsletter. Check it out here.