Fieldwork during Covid-19
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Training the Covid-19 Cohort: Adapting and Preserving Social Science Research
Harvard's Weatherhead Center Field Work Funding for Doctoral Students
Virtual Qualitative Research
- Preparing for (Remote) Qualitative FieldworkPresentation slides for Harvard Library workshop
- Doing Online Interviews (Alexia Maddox)
- Epistolary (Asynchronous) Interviews
- World Clock Meeting Planner (Time Zone Scheduler)
- Deborah Lupton's Bibliography: Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic
- YouTube: Deborah Lupton: Conducting & Virtual Fieldwork in a Pandemic
- YouTube:When the Field is Online
- YouTube: Ethnographic Fieldwork Across Online Spaces
- NVivo Blog: COVID-19 and Virtual Qualitative Fieldwork
- LSE Blog: Carrying out qualitative research under lockdown – Practical and ethical considerations (here)
- London School of Economics (LSE) Digital Ethnography Collective Reading List
- Social Research and Insecurity - Essays on How the Pandemic Has Changed Research Practice (SSRC)
Remote Interview Research
Cases in Online Interview Research by
This book provides 10 cases of research conducted using online interviews, with data collected through text-based, videoconferencing, multichannel meeting, and immersive 3-D environments. Each case is followed by two commentaries: one from another expert contributor, the second from Janet Salmons as editor.
Publication Date: 2011-11-08
The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods by Publication Date: 2017Bringing together the leading names in both qualitative and quantitative online research, this new edition is organised into nine sections: 1. Online Research Methods 2. Designing Online Research 3. Online Data Capture and Data Collection 4. The Online Survey 5. Digital Quantitative Analysis 6. Digital Text Analysis 7. Virtual Ethnography 8. Online Secondary Analysis: Resources and Methods 9. The Future of Online Social Research
- Interview SkillsFrom an online class on March 24, 2022: Get set up for interview research. You will leave prepared to choose among the three types of interviewing methods, equipped to develop an interview schedule, aware of data management options and their ethical implications, and knowledgeable of technologies you can use to record and transcribe your interviews. This workshop complements Intro to NVivo, a qualitative data analysis tool useful for coding interview data.
Remote Instruction for Qualitative Software
On-demand video instruction and online tutorial sessions are being offered for remote instruction. Please feel welcome to make use of these resources. You may also contact us directly or through ask-a-librarian for individual consultations or to attend our online workshops listed or help getting your software downloaded and project set up!
LinkedIn Learning @ Harvard: There are several videos and courses on qualitative research, ethnography, interview skills, as well as choosing qualitative software and learning NVivo qualitative software platform. (Tip: Search for Qualitative Research, Ethnography or NVivo)
NVivio: Offering a suite of on-demand webinars including topics such as mixed methods analysis, content analysis, literature review, analysis social media, data visualization, best practices for qualitative research, etc.
Atlas.Ti: Learning how to use the software, free trial licenses, we also offer combined courses on methodology of qualitative data analysis and using the software. You can find all of the learning opportunities we offer here. Some of these courses are now available for free.
Taguette: Getting started with Taguette will assist you installing and Instructions for using this free open access and open source qualitative software tool!
