Applications Requested for a Reading Seminar on Diversification of Social Research Methods [Deadline extended]

Reading Seminar on Diversification of Social Research Methods

With Sanjay Sharma

Organized by Martin Chautari

Course Description:
The social science landscape in Nepal is dominated by doing research either through surveys, including big data (for quantitative researchers), and in-depth/interviews and focus group discussions (for qualitative researchers). This exploratory research methodology reading seminar attempts to diversify the methods, tools and conditions of doing social research. These diversification strategies are some of the many available options that researchers can adopt. These research methods are normally ignored and marginalised with the availability of more established and “mainstream” methods like surveys and interviews. Furthermore, with the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers have realised that the conventional methods of doing research have their own boundaries and to curb those limitations, there is a need to adopt enabling alternatives. Many of the methodologies proposed in this reading seminar are marginalised approaches informed by feminist and decolonial thoughts and make the research process more egalitarian and collaborative by working with the research interlocutors in knowledge production. See more>>