{"id":506,"date":"2015-06-12T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=506"},"modified":"2015-06-12T08:42:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T22:42:58","slug":"thinking-and-talking-about-research-methodologies-why-should-we-bother-mary-bosworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2015\/06\/12\/thinking-and-talking-about-research-methodologies-why-should-we-bother-mary-bosworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking and talking about research methodologies: Why should we bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/03\/mary.bosworth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-535\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/03\/mary.bosworth.jpg\" alt=\"mary.bosworth\" width=\"126\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><strong>Border Criminologies have generously given us the permission to promote their blogs on our site. Here is the first one. If you want to read more, just click on the hyperlink.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"sep\">Posted on <\/span><a title=\"7:00 am\" href=\"http:\/\/bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk\/research-methodologies\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">16\/02\/2015<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> <span class=\"sep\"> by <\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View all posts by Border Criminologies\" href=\"http:\/\/bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk\/author\/bordercrim\/\" rel=\"author\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Border Criminologies<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"sep sep-comment\"> \u2014 <\/span> <span class=\"comments-link\"> <a title=\"Comment on Thinking and Talking about Research Methodologies: Why Should we Bother?\" href=\"http:\/\/bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk\/research-methodologies\/#comments\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">3 Comments \u2193<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Post by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.ox.ac.uk\/profile\/mary.bosworth\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Bosworth<\/a>, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. This post is the <strong>first<\/strong> instalment\u00a0of the Border Criminologies <strong>Themed Week on Research\u00a0Methodologies<\/strong>,<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It is no accident that we decided to start our <a href=\"http:\/\/bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk\/widening-participation\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">themed blog post series<\/span><\/span><\/a> with one on research methodologies. All too often relegated to appendices of books or to the \u2018boring bit\u2019 of graduate and undergraduate training, how we do our research, who we do it with and the kinds of decisions we make along the way are, in fact, central to academic inquiry. Most obviously, decisions we make about research methods shape our findings. They also raise a series of compelling, and sometimes, unsettling, ethical and moral questions. For those of us working with vulnerable populations (and who in criminology is not?), such matters can be messy, painful and unnerving. Remaining silent about them can generate personal anxieties and intellectual\u00a0confusion. What we doing here? What is the point of our work? Are we getting things right? <a title=\"Thinking and Talking About Research Methodologies: Mary Bosworth\" href=\"http:\/\/bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk\/research-methodologies\/\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Border Criminologies have generously given us the permission to promote their blogs on our site. Here is the first one. If you want to read more, just click on the hyperlink. Posted on 16\/02\/2015 by Border Criminologies \u2014 3 Comments \u2193 Post by Mary Bosworth, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. 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