Working With Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes: The Centrality of By-Products of Social Research
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The University of Leicester
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
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- 1083
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- B - Edited book
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10.4337/9781784715250
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- Edward Elgar
- ISBN
- 978 1 78471 524 3
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- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
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3
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- O'Connor co-conceived and co-edited this edited book with John Goodwin, Rosalind Edwards (Southampton) and Anne Phoenix (London). Revealing the relational nature of paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes, the editors develop a typology of social research ‘by products’, examining how their study and analysis offers insight into the intellectual, social and ethical processes underpinning the activities of research and reading. O’Connor co-wrote (25%) the 6,600-word introduction, a 4,200-word (25%) afterword, and 50% of a 7,300-word chapter on research ephemera (# 7). O’Connor co-ordinated the work of three other editors and 10 contributors. O’Connor’s work was central to the question underpinning the premise of the book – ‘can the by-products of research activity be treated as data and of research interest in themselves’? This question has its origins in the series of ‘school-to-work transitions’ restudies which were funded by the ESRC and the British Academy and jointly led by O’Connor over a twenty-year period (2000-20 and ongoing). This volume was conceived at a conference at the University of Leicester in 2014 that was funded by UKRI/ESRCs National Centre for Research Methods and convened by O’Connor.
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