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Book SynopsisThis insightful book offers practical advice to fieldworkers in social research, enabling robust and judicious applications of research methods and techniques in data collection. It also outlines data collection challenges that are commonly faced when working in the field.
Authors address key strategies to tackle the major challenges to fieldwork, including advice on using indigenous or innovative skills and making intelligent use of the advantages already available within standard research methodologies. International contributors provide a hands-on account of research methodologies as applied in the field, with particular focus on research ethics and community culture and interactions. The book offers a number of useful case studies, featuring examples of the application of research techniques in different cultural and socio-economic contexts.
Utilizing an innovative and dynamic ‘storytelling’ method, this book will be a useful research tool for fieldworkers engaging in social science research in community settings, as well as students in the field learning the core techniques of fieldwork.
Trade Review‘Occasionally, a particularly insightful work is published with much potential for fostering improved learning and application. This is such a book. The Field Guide
offers vital guidance on conducting fieldwork across contexts for community-based work. I consider this essential reading for anyone involved in identifying community issues and potential solutions.’Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Field guide for research in community settings: tools, methods, challenges and strategies 1 M. Rezaul Islam, Niaz Ahmed Khan, Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah, Haris Abd Wahab and Mashitah Binti Hamidi 2 Challenges and solutions for collecting data in health research: experiences of Australian doctoral and early career researchers 11 Mohammad Hamiduzzaman, Alan Taylor, Belinda Lunnay, Abraham Kuot, Hannah Wechkunanukul, Omar Smadi, Heath Pillen and Fathimath Shifaza 3 Challenges with opening up closed off communities: interviewing ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in Israel 25 Veronika Poniscjakova 4 Ethnography research with Indonesian female factory workers: challenges and strategies in the field 34 Mashitah Binti Hamidi 5 “How can you be so naïve?” Negotiating insider status among co-ethnic migrants in global ethnographic fieldwork 50 Hasan Mahmud 6 Challenges and opportunities in conducting cross-country PhD study: experiences of data collection in India and China 66 Rajendra Baikady 7 Researching the garment sector in Bangladesh: fieldwork challenges and responses 75 Sawlat Zaman 8 Gaining access to research participants for data collection in doctoral studies: evidence from a rural area of Bangladesh 85 Shofiqur Rahman Chowdhury, M. Rezaul Islam and Haris Abd Wahab 9 The challenges and strategies of accessing hard to reach locations during fieldwork data collection: the case of northeast Nigeria 101 Nasa’i Muhammad Gwadabe and Adekunle Daoud Balogun 10 Data collection on ‘smartphone addiction and social capital effects’ among the university students of Bangladesh: challenges and strategies for the way out 110 Ashek Mahmud, M. Rezaul Islam and Hamedi M. Adnan 11 Undercover fieldwork: a queer experience of healthcare in Bangladesh 123 Kanamik Kani Khan 12 Ethical issues, challenges and solutions during fieldwork with homeless elderly people of Malaysia and Pakistan 138 Aqsa Qandeel and Welyne J. Jehom 13 Field research in the conflict zone: an empirical study of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh 154 Md. Rafiqul Islam 14 Research with coastal people in Bangladesh: challenges and way forward 167 Taj Sultana, Firuza Begham Binti Mustafa, Jillian Ooi Lean Sim and M. Rezaul Islam 15 Data collection from the Santal community: a journey towards an unknown world in ascertaining the nexus between reality and dream 178 Munira Jahan Sumi, M. Rezaul Islam and Ramy Bulan 16 Challenges in accessing rural area and managing sub-culture differences in Kuala Krai, Kelantan, Malaysia 194 Maria Binti Mohd Ismail and Raja Noriza Binti Raja Ariffin 17 Fieldwork experience: challenges and managing risks as a female researcher 201 Bushra Zaman, M. Rezaul Islam and Rosila Bee Mohd Hussain 18 Data collection on acid attack survivor women: a PhD researcher’s experience from Bangladesh 211 Tahmina Islam, M. Rezaul Islam and Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah 19 Challenges, strategies, and way out techniques in conducting in-depth interviews among managers in Malaysian organizations 221 Nafisa Kasem, Shahreen Mat Nayan, Kumaran A/l Suberamanian and Sedigheh Moghavvemi Index
