Interested in how climate discourses shape social life and politics? Happy to present my new project about climatisation with @bchemouni.bsky.social this week at @uclouvain.bsky.social 🤓 @lsemethodology.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social

"Are we measuring the right things in the social sciences?" At an LSE Open Research Panel this week @audreyalejandro.bsky.social said "so many of the tools we rely on to assess research quality are really just proxies, yet our methodological standards drop when we evaluate our own profession"

The workshop "Computational Social Sciences meets Qualitative Research" at #LSE last week was exceptional 🤩Now preparing the Special Issue that is going to be 🔥 so watch this space. Thank you to all the participants and chairs for your great insights and the amazing vibe.

📭 Just published: The Case for Asking “What Is This a Case Of?” My students pushed me to write this — maybe yours will find it useful too. Curious what you think! #caseselection #methodology #researchdesign #researchmethods www.audreyalejandro.com/the-methodol... @lsemethodology.bsky.social

The workshop "Computational Social Sciences meets Qualitative Research" at #LSE last week was exceptional 🤩Now preparing the Special Issue that is going to be 🔥 so watch this space. Thank you to all the participants and chairs for your great insights and the amazing vibe.

Day Two of our Computational Social Science Meets Qualitative Research workshop has begun and we’re in the iconic Shaw Library 📚⚡️ @lsedatascience.bsky.social

It’s Day One of our Computational Social Science Meets Qualitative Research workshop ✍️ We kicked things off with the first paper from @audreyalejandro.bsky.social @dandekadt.bsky.social 💡

@audreyalejandro.bsky.social will be presenting her work on "Reflexivity in Practice" tomorrow, by the Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Group of the American Political Science Association💡 ➡️ www.interpretivemethods.com/upcoming-eve...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... What on earth are we doing to our planet?

📭 Just published: The Case for Asking “What Is This a Case Of?” My students pushed me to write this — maybe yours will find it useful too. Curious what you think! #caseselection #methodology #researchdesign #researchmethods www.audreyalejandro.com/the-methodol... @lsemethodology.bsky.social

Very nice location for our 4th DiMES workshop today with @audreyalejandro.bsky.social. Thanks to @jojukao.bsky.social for organizing and @dennmis.bsky.social for setting us up in Villa Engler @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/soziologi...

Summer is there with a new issue of the European Journal of International Relations- Vol. 31, issue 2! 🧵In this thread you can find all the articles included: 📚Read the full issue here: t1p.de/0grt2

🧵4/10 “Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision” by @audreyalejandro.bsky.social t1p.de/7u0eo

🔥 New article "Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision" published with @ejir.bsky.social in #openaccess: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @lsemethodology.bsky.social #Technique #malecircumcision #expertise #Weber #Foucault #Habermas #VMMC

I develop three conceptualisation of technicization: 1. Technicization as depoliticization (Weberian) 2. Technicization as disciplinarization (Foucauldian) 3. Technicization as desociologization (Habermassian) It is my first paper that is really a #socialtheory / #politicaltheory paper 😍🤓

I illustrate the interest of theorising and disentangling these conceptualisation of #technicisation based on the case study of the history of the medicalisation of male circumcision.

We're also hiring an LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods👏 We are seeking to appoint an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in qualitative methods 🌎 For more info and to apply➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Based on the history of methods & methodological debates in IR, I argue that the current promotion of methods in IR challenges the ‘critical vs non-critical’ divide & argue that pro-methods critical scholarship is currently engaged in a process of de-technicisation of methods.

Just to reiterate, these are really good post-docs: Relatively low teaching load (and the teaching is usually interesting and helpful from a career-perspective), friendly and supportive community, and a focus on helping you produce research and launch a career. Many very successful alumni!

📣 Beate Jahn & Sebastian Schindler's new Encyclopedia of #InternationalRelations is OUT! Very proud to have contributed to the entry "#Methods" that I wrote as an introduction to methods for IR students. DM if you want the manuscript. www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

Happy to have become an affiliate of LSE Data Science Institute & pursue there my interest in building the bridge between Computational Social Science and Qualitative Research 🎉 Have a 👀 at this wonderful team of scholars: www.lse.ac.uk/DSI @lsedatascience.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social

Happy to have become an affiliate of LSE Data Science Institute & pursue there my interest in building the bridge between Computational Social Science and Qualitative Research 🎉 Have a 👀 at this wonderful team of scholars: www.lse.ac.uk/DSI @lsedatascience.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social

📣 Beate Jahn & Sebastian Schindler's new Encyclopedia of #InternationalRelations is OUT! Very proud to have contributed to the entry "#Methods" that I wrote as an introduction to methods for IR students. DM if you want the manuscript. www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

Censorship and anti-democratic governance at the International Studies Association medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...

📣Call for papers! 1️⃣ week left to send your 250-word abstract for @audreyalejandro.bsky.social and ‪@dandekadt.bsky.social‬'s two-day workshop on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" Learn more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/... @lsedatascience.bsky.social

💡 New article @audreyalejandro.bsky.social‬ latest article focuses on "Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision" Read more here ➡️

There's still time to nominate!🌠

Really looking forward to host this event. Please do not hesitate to reach out in DM if you have an idea that you would like to brainstorm with us! @dandekadt.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social #methodology #CSS #AI #machinelearning #mixedmethods #qualitativeresearch #researchmethods #LSE

🔥 New article "Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision" published with @ejir.bsky.social in #openaccess: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @lsemethodology.bsky.social #Technique #malecircumcision #expertise #Weber #Foucault #Habermas #VMMC

Today a senior exec from Taylor & Francis replied confirming that T&F journal articles *are* and will continue to be provided to its AI partners for model training, with *no opt-out*. Guess we know where we stand now - academics are creators of data for value generation by Big AI and publishers

📣Call for papers! 👉 Remember, @audreyalejandro.bsky.social and @dandekadt.bsky.social‬ are hosting a two-day workshop on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" this November. Learn more and submit your paper before 26 March➡️ buff.ly/40U9SA0... @lsedatascience.bsky.social

4. A conceptual and pedagogical piece (by me): "Writing as Social Practice: From Researchers’ to Readers’ Reflexivity" in which I conceptualise the key concepts of our initiative and unpack how to write for reflexivity and decenter agency in world politics. In #OpenAccess ➡️ brill.com/view/journal...

I define key concepts to writing for reflexivity & introduce practical strategies based on the case of decentering agency in world politics to address the Eurocentric denial of "non-Western" agency existing in #IR. Below: an excerpt of an activity I develop for decentering agency in our writings 2/

In this chapter, we not only celebrate the rich tradition that has put reflexivity on the agenda, but also challenge ourselves and others to take the next steps so that reflexivity can become a practical, high-quality resource for advancing research standards in qualitative research and beyond. 6/6

5. How does reflexivity improve the quality of work beyond qualitative research? We discuss the relevance of reflexivity for quantitative studies and policy work and suggest three steps to be taken for reflexivity to achieve its full potential. 5/6

📢 NEW ARTICLE: How did male circumcision – an ancient religious ritual – become a global health policy and what role did International Organizations discourses play in this process? Published in Open Access in International Relations with Joshua Feldman : buff.ly/3C44cdO 1/4

3. How do we practice reflexivity? 4. How do we assess reflexivity? We explore the literature on reflexivity in practice. Reflexivity's potential to contribute to the value of research is limited as researchers have only marginally developed guidelines for the quality of reflexivity itself. 4/6

2. Does Reflexivity improve the quality of qualitative research? We survey the ways that researchers understand reflexivity's contribution to the quality of qualitative research. Many of the debates about how reflexivity improves research quality reveal uncertainties about how to do reflexivity. 3/6

1. What do we mean by reflexivity? We review the diverse and, indeed, messy scholarly discussions about reflexivity and considers the implications for how we think about reflexivity's purpose in qualitative research. 2/6

📢 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

Links to the rest of the rest of the forum, which are to be honest, not well-signposted on the PARISS website, can be found below: Audrey Alejandro, (Open Access) "Writing as Social Practice: From Researchers’ to Readers’ Reflexivity" : brill.com/view/journal... 5/?

Hopefully, my reflections in the conclusion on the underappreciated merits of "breaking writing rules" might lead others to reflect upon their writing process. (abstract below). 2/? brill.com/view/journal...

- Carmina Yu Untalan, (Open Access) "Beyond Empire: Okinawa and the politics of American Military bases in Japan": brill.com/view/journal... 7/7!

Followed by - Felix Anderl, "Decentering Agency in North-South Solidarity: Arguing with My Past Self": brill.com/view/journal... 6/?

📢 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

🧧This week at the occasion of Chinese New Year, I had the privilege of attending a Nüshu calligraphy workshop organised by my brilliant PhD student Mac Wang and hosted by @lsemethodology.bsky.social ✍️ Nüshu is a script that was used only by women during several centuries in Southern Hunan 🙋🏻‍♀️

📢 Call for papers 📢 Workshop "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" that I organise with colleague @dandekadt.bsky.social at LSE in November 2025. Anyone interested please send us a 250-word abstract by 26 March 2025 ! Learn more➡️ buff.ly/3CCijaY @lsemethodology.bsky.social

Publication alert! It was a joy & an honour to write the conclusion to this forum on "writing for reflexivity" (ft. Felix Anderl, Audrey Alejandro, & Carmina Yu Untalan), which I suspect may have permanently transformed what I consider "good academic writing" to be, and what it can aspire to do. 1/

📢 Call for papers 📢 Workshop "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" that I organise with colleague @dandekadt.bsky.social at LSE in November 2025. Anyone interested please send us a 250-word abstract by 26 March 2025 ! Learn more➡️ buff.ly/3CCijaY @lsemethodology.bsky.social

🏮 Chinese New Year celebrations, former Visiting Research Student, friend and co-author Longxuan ZHAO gifted me a magnet of our article "Multi-Method Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis: A Methodological Framework" to celebrate its 50th citation 😍 🫠 🤓 ▶️ #OA: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...