An interactive online session examining interpretive sampling as outlined in Karen's book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone.

Brexit ignited an unprecedented sense of shared European identity and belonging, catalysing pro-EU social movements among EU nationals in the United Kingdom and amongst British citizens residing in t...

The experience of British citizens living in in France, Spain and Italy has been amply covered by researchers. However, very little attention has been given to British citizens living in Central and Eastern Europe. Moreover, although the impact of Brexit on Britons living in the EU has received some attention, the role of politics in general as a factor in unforced migration is relatively understudied. This paper draws on qualitative in-depth interviews conducted in the period 2019-2022 with 60 British citizens living long-term in Poland. It investigates the structural effects of politics in Poland and the UK and how its sliding doors have fostered or hindered UK citizens’ ability to move between the two countries since the political transformation of 1989. On a micro level, it also looks at the individual agency of British citizens and their attempts to negotiate the changing political landscape. This paper finds that anomic feelings connected to the political conditions in the UK have often been a contributory factor in the decision to move abroad. Despite widespread concerns about political illiberalism in Poland, the state of British politics today and the structural impact of Brexit, which prevents many citizens returning to the UK with their partners, as well as the ‘hostile environment’ for Polish migrants, fuel continuing disillusionment with the UK and a reluctance to return.

AI-hallucinated scientific research and legal precedents are making their way into academic papers and court cases, highlighting AI's real-world impact

In my new book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit book, I confront the thorny issue of qualitative sampling (see earlier blog post), and I introduce the idea of initia…

John Harris's account of how music became a lifeline for his autistic son.

Abstract. A realist review is a theory-driven approach to synthesizing evidence based on the realist philosophy of science. Realist reviews are conducted t

My book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit is to be published by Policy Press in March. In it, I argue that: too rigid an adherence to objectivity can be impr…

This one jumped out at me from the blue sky (dzięki Paweł!). I’ve read less Lem than le Guin, but the idea of them writing to each other was startling, pleasing. I ordered their 1972–1984 letters f…

The Manics have abandoned the ideologies and cultural touchstones that once defined them, and approached their fifteenth record with "no MO," says James Dean Bradfield. He speaks to Patrick Clarke abo...

My book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit is to be published by Policy Press in March.  One of the things I discuss in Chapter 2 is what Michaela Benson and I  ca…