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Long Covid has now overtaken Asthma in the US, as a cause of chronic health disease in children. There is currently no cure. Yet no action is being taken and Violet Affleck is very much on point.

This is an essay, a reading list and a poem on why I think Pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism and Decolonisation can be insightful tools for realising visions of flourishing future worlds for all. folukeafrica.com/pan-africani...

Unequal pressures: new #qualitative work from the QUAHRC team explores how young people from different backgrounds had very different #Covid experiences, and why this is still relevant to widening inequality www.kcl.ac.uk/how-disadvan...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

How do researchers study experiences that are "too shattering to put into words"? MAshNup method uses art-making, metaphor analysis, and narrative techniques to help participants explore difficult experiences in ethical, sensitive ways. Read the article here: doi.org/10.1332/3050...

Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I have always hated the way smart speakers and chatbots mimic amicability and draw people in to talking to them as if there is a person there. Great to read a scholarly exploration, using dear old Gigerenzer and Grice to set out the problem 🌟

"In 2019, Iceland made headlines as one of the first countries to implement a four-day workweek...Nearly six years later, the results are clear: this bold move has proven to be a game-changer, not just for the workforce, but for society as a whole." www.wecb.fm/iceland-embr...

Are you, might you become, or do you know a transnational scholar from the Global South? Or do you work with one or more? If so, this insightful, creatively written book will be of interest. It's part of the series I co-edit with @patthomson.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Insider-Guid...

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

It's #Flyday folks! Ruspoli's Turaco in flight. Borena, Ethiopia 🪶 #birds

Call for chapters: Ethical Review in Practice, edited by Lucy Pickering and me. Do you have a particularly good, bad, or mixed experience with a research #ethics approval body that you would like to share? If so this call may be of interest: helenkara.com/writing/ethi... please share widely!

I’m so pleased to share that the launch issue of the Journal of Creative Research Methods (JCRM) is now live! 🎉 👉 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... Huge thanks to my wonderful Co-Editors in Chief Su-Ming Khoo, Harriet Shortt & Sophie Woodward. #CreativeMethods #JCRM

Doing teaching prep in terror at how soon summer will be over. A reminder that a pedagogy of love is possible. It INVITES our students to be the best of who they can be in the classroom and beyond it. A pedagogy of love DEMANDS the same thing of us teachers. folukeafrica.com/to-bell-hook...

Here's a talk I gave as a keynote for the BPS @qmip.bsky.social conference (July 2025) - the result of @vicclarke.bsky.social & I recognising we needed to "dive in" & grapple with the beast that is GenAI & qualitative/(reflexive) thematic analysis www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zFQ...

My new project! Funded by @isrfoundation.bsky.social, with lovely colleagues @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social and @autgeek.bsky.social First time I've ever had funding for research 🥳 #Neurodivergent #AcademicSky #LivedExperience #CreativeResearch

First up we have @ginnybraun.bsky.social discussing the impact of Gen AI on qualitative research. Is this something we can ignore or do we need to develop a position on the use of Gen AI? Is AI our friend or not to be trusted? #qmip2025 @qmip.bsky.social

When I started my PhD, I had never heard of epistemic decolonisation. Then I came across 2 books that changed my life. One was "Decolonizing Methodologies" by Linda Tuhiwai Smith; the other was "Decolonising the Mind" by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Rest in piece Prof. Ngũgĩ, may your works live long.

Developing a structured daily routine for writing and research www.raulpacheco.org/2018/11/deve... One of the biggest challenges I faced as a graduate student and still face now as a Full Professor is knowing how to structure my time given that time in academic work is so unstructured. #RPVSky

Large rise in NI universities' mental health spending since Covid www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This is mirrored across the sector and worth unpacking as I know this is an area where people have a lot of strong opinions currently. Here's a quick thread 🧵 please add your thoughts.

Continuing our theme of #SocialJustice and #Migration, this month's Impact in #QualitativeResearch blog explores co-researching with domestic workers who have experienced #trafficking and exploitation: www.quahrc.co.uk/impact-in-qu... #ResearchImpact #ResearchMethods #Qualitative

Exactly what I’m about to talk about next week in a keynote on research on (religion and) disability. Who is it for? So much talk. So much more need for action. (I’m a hypocrite here too - but I can at least ask the question.)

Sister and Friend, 2024 ♀ by Betty Acquah, Ghanaian feminist painter #WomensArt #InternationalWomensDay ♀

Fab essay from member @gabrielscheidecker.bsky.social: "early childhood science implicitly promotes Western, urban middle-class skills and behaviours... a child has reached their full potential when they behave and think like a Western, urban middle-class child." aeon.co/essays/the-p...

I'm proud to be chairing 'How Creative Research Methods Challenge Power Dynamics in Knowledge Production', for Policy Press. 📅 24.03.2025 | 📍 Zoom For further information and to register now, click here: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #CRMethods

I really like this conceptualization of reflexivity by Braun & Clarke (2022): "good reflexivity isn't a surface reflection, it isn't a comforting feeling or something designed to make you feel like a better person; it can and should be discomforting, unsettling, and change-bringing."

Impact in Qualitative Research blog: www.quahrc.co.uk/podcasts-blo... There is often limited opportunity to demonstrate impact in #qualitative research, and so we are hoping to provide a place to do this. If you are based at King’s and have an idea for a blog post, get in touch at [email protected]

📢 New publication "Reflexivity for Qualitative Research Quality and the Quality of Reflexivity" with Alexander Stoffel for The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality (ed. Uwe Flick) 1/6 https://buff.ly/3PlKaz3 @lsemethodology.bsky.social #reflexivity #qualitativeresearch #researchquality

I really like this conceptualization of reflexivity by Braun & Clarke (2022): "good reflexivity isn't a surface reflection, it isn't a comforting feeling or something designed to make you feel like a better person; it can and should be discomforting, unsettling, and change-bringing."

The first episode in our SEVENTH series of the #Qualitative Open Mic podcast is here! #Neurodiversity Matters: Damian Milton on double empathy and #autistic worlds www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne... #QualitativeResearch #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent #Autism

The video of last week's methods panel is up! Come check out Freddie Jones, Léon Van Ommen and I talked about using qualitative methods with nonspeaking people. Link to the full panel video (and to the slides for my section) available here: www.heasutherland.com/talk/ethnogr...

I don't know if you've seen these three recent papers from @vicclarke.bsky.social and me (and others for #3) but they may be useful.... (linked below - all open access). Good luck! These experiences are so so so frustrating!!

Our qualitative study got desk reject for “sample size” & “validity”. Appealed & reply said we should add 1)coder reliability & 2)numerical data in a table to justify “theme saturation” for paper to go to review. I’ve published qual work for 9 years & don’t know how to deal w/ this quant bias. Help!

iaani.org/2025isan/ The 2025 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN) 28th Feb-2nd March, online. #AcademicSky #QualitativeResearch

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

Why are we allowing universities to basically become captive markets for Big Tech, for OpenAI and Microsoft to create generations of students unable to think, read or write without LLMs? We are shooting ourselves in the foot, repeatedly, and being told its a "revolution"

📣 Do you write in a way that enables your readers to become reflexive about the things you are talking about? My new article "Writing as Social Practice: From Researchers’ to Readers’ Reflexivity" aims to develop a research program to address this question ⬇️ In #OA 1/ brill.com/view/journal...

An extraordinary week spent discussing Openness, Transparency and Rigour at #QRS2025! Thank you to everyone for creating an incredibly inspiring, and friendly conference! Check out our great summary vid including our keynotes @maddipow.bsky.social and Sarah Neal 💪 What did you learn from QRS 2025?

"Conventionally, researchers use one or perhaps two methods and impose them on participants. Research can be done well this way. However, our work has shown that giving participants choices [of creative methods] can benefit early years research at all stages."

April 3, 2025: "Nnedi Okorafor: The Future of Storytelling in the Age of AI – A Conversation on Death of the Author" @nnedi.bsky.social

Throw away your half-eaten fruit and mobile phones in the bin on the left, 😁.

New journal article! 'From the Mosaic approach to cultural probes: Why research improves when participants can choose.' Co-authored with Judith Brown. Enjoy!

I went through my Twitter bookmarks today and wanted to share these informative and thoughtful provoking pieces on positioning, positionality, and positionality statements written in recent years (in case you haven't seen them already 😊):

what ChatGPT is genuinely good at right now is quickly producing large amounts of plausible-sounding text. if your job is to, e.g., produce generic copy for mass communications, there’s probably utility there. but the gap between what it does and how its proponents talk about it is enormous.

I am excited to share my latest research paper published in Social Media + Society, titled 'Internet Memes as Stabilizers of Conspiracy Culture: A Cognitive Anthropological Analysis' and co-authored with @britdavidson.bsky.social, Tim Hill, and Adam Joinson. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Writing + preaching are “completely unattached. When you are standing in the pulpit, you must sound as though you know what you’re talking about. When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know,… what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.”

I went through my Twitter bookmarks today and wanted to share these informative and thoughtful provoking pieces on positioning, positionality, and positionality statements written in recent years (in case you haven't seen them already 😊):

🎧You can now listen to my lecture "Wounds Inside: The Anticipated Mental Health Consequences of the Genocide in Gaza" as part of the @KingsAKC podcast series! Link: open.spotify.com/episode/4Bvy...