Dr Swayamshree Mishra, Dr Ankita Rathi, Dr Charumita Vasudev and
Prof Jasmine Fledderjohann organized a training session
on ‘Navigating Complexity: Qualitative Research in Challenging Field Settings’.

This course was designed to familiarize students and researchers with various facets of qualitative research, particularly focusing on challenging fieldwork environments involving complex and intimate inquiries, expansive research scopes and diverse participant types. The team drew their personal experience of undertaking ethnographic work and collecting semi-structured interviews with adults and children, presenting examples from the field to illustrate key challenges.

The course particularly benefit researchers engaging in qualitative research with vulnerable communities for short-term periods and in international contexts.