Facilitating and Producing Research during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned
Tips for Hosting Virtual Research Workshops The Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University-Qatar (GU-Q) is a research center that facilitates and produces research primarily on the Middle East and Persian Gulf. One of the core goals of the CIRS research mission is to facilitate the free flow of ideas and knowledge […]
Field research and Covid-19 in East Africa: Ethical and Pragmatic Challenges for Research Design, Data Collection, and Equity
We arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, the last week of February 2020. Before officially entering the terminal at Jomo Kenyatta Airport, medical staff, wearing masks, stood at the end of the passenger boarding bridge.
Slow Research in Urgent Times: COVID-19, Gender-Based Violence and the Ethics of Crisis
On March 26, 2020, South Africa went into a nation-wide, mandatory lock-down to control the spread of the coronavirus, a disease many feared would impact the hundreds of thousands of immuno-compromised South Africans with HIV, tuberculosis, and other chronic illnesses.