THREAD: On shared databases, literature reviews materials and Conceptual Synthesis Excel Dumps (CSED), Mendeley and Dropbox folders for a laboratory or a coauthorship.
You may recall that a few weeks ago, I asked you if you used any of my techniques and whether you shared stuff
When I had my own lab, @CoReGovLab, I used to share Dropbox folders, Mendeley folders/groups and CSEDs with my research assistants and my coauthors. That was/is part of the deal with me: if you work with me, we may want to implement my methods (for both of our sakes)
I am at a different institution now, BUT I still believe in the power of sharing the same methods, heuristics, files and approaches to doing research.
I am currently co-editing a book with @Pran_eeta which means we're going to have to share CSEDs, Mendeley and Dropbox folders.
There are other projects where I believe our progress will be enhanced by sharing a CSED. For example, with a colleague of mine from FLACSO, Jose del Tronco Paganelli, I am exploring the politics of public health policy (a new area for both of us). We share Mendeley/Dropbox/CSEDs
I am also organizing a Global Learning Circle/Reading Group on #HospitalEthnography which means that I'll probably set up a shared Dropbox/Google Drive folder for everyone to access the materials we will be reading each week.
We may not share a CSED but I'll keep mine going.
So what's the heuristic then?
- Share if you think your coauthors, students, research assistants will benefit from these shared materials
- Keep your own copy if you plan to do solo-authored work, or if you have stuff that doesn't need to be shared all the time.
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THREAD: on how you can identify Conceptual Saturation and how you can converge on a topic or theme:
I’ve been reading on #HospitalEthnography for a while now. Recently, I’ve converged on a topic: access to field sites and gate-keeping. Relevant to my project on fieldwork.
These 3 articles give me ideas for a #MorningParagraphs: what are some of the issues that arise with regards to access to hospital wards as sites for field research - and what are the ethics of said access?
I outlined some ideas in a blank piece of paper.
What I did with these notes is that I mapped out which authors I could or should cite for each one of these ideas (see dribbles in pink)
I added a few even if they aren’t explicitly on nurses as gatekeepers because these citations DO provide insight on this topic too.
Hilo para mi Twitter hispanoparlante: me han preguntado en cursos y talleres y mis estudiantes cómo es que decido si tomo apuntes en mi Libreta de Todo (Everything Notebook), Nota Cornell, una Ficha de Trabajo o en mi Excel Dump de Síntesis Conceptual. Mis reglas son flexibles.
En general, TODAS mis lecturas pasan a un renglón del Excel Dump, aunque sea solamente mis apuntes en los márgenes de la Lectura Rápida AIC.
El asunto se complica cuando noto que un artículo o capítulo lo tengo que leer más a profundidad. Este es un ejemplo:
OIGAN... prometí que iba a tratar de tuitear más sobre mis temas de investigación. Me quedé pensando en que un tema sobre el que puedo hacer un hilo es “ecología política y ecología política urbana para el estudio de conflictos socioambientales”
Pues aquí va. Primero que nada quiero observar que tengo una formación interdisciplinaria, lo cual hace que no piense por disciplina sino por área temática y por lo que me contribuye cada cosa que estudio. Soy ingeniero químico, tengo maestría en economía y mi doctorado es...
... doble en ciencia política y geografía humana. Si bien me especializo en temas ambientales, mi investigación es fundamentalmente sobre política pública comparada. Obviamente, como me interesa mucho la parte metodológica, también hago métodos múltiples (cuant-cual-mixtos)
THREAD: answering the “how do we decide whether to write an Index Card, a Cornell Note, an entry in my Everything Notebook, etc.”
I get asked this question all the time (by my students and/or workshop participants).
I don’t have hard and fast rules. Here’s an example.
This article is one that I have decided is worth reading in depth (see my triaging strategy raulpacheco.org/2019/08/triagi…)
As a general rule, the first step for me when I read is to do a quick AIC content extraction +CSED entry row raulpacheco.org/2017/12/carvin…
Because I've chosen this as an article I'm going to read in much depth, I need to first decide how much time I'm going to spend on it and how I can systematize what I am going to learn from it.
First step: go through the headings and list them. This gives me the paper structure