Latest Fieldwork Podcast Episodes
Lessons from the Field: What We Love About Field Research (and this Podcast!)
Stories from the Field - April 20, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn this special final episode, we weave together numerous lessons from throughout the book and podcast, from the value of unstructured time in the field to the surprising parallels between hosting a podcast and doing fieldwork. Using some of our favorite interview clips and book readings, we ref...
COVID-19 and Field Research with Fotini Christia, Aliyu Zakayo, and Aidan Milliff
Stories from the Field - April 13, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFotini Christia, Aliyu Zakayo, and Aidan Milliff offer their perspectives as a full professor, a medical doctor and researcher, and an advanced graduate student, respectively, on the ethical and logistical challenges posed by COVID-19 for field research. Each guest draws on their own experiences...
Learning Field Research with Vierelina Fernandez, Leah Hickert, Ayse Lokmanoglu, Jack MacDonald, and Renata Martinez
Stories from the Field - March 30, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe trace the process of learning field research by talking to a group of excellent undergraduate students (Leah Hickert, Jack MacDonald, and Renata Martinez) and advanced graduate students (Vierelina Fernandez, Ayse Lokmanoglu) about how they first encountered and began to conduct field research...
Teaching Field Research with Jesse Driscoll, Milli Lake, and Sarah Parkinson
Stories from the Field - March 23, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe welcome Jesse Driscoll from UCSD, Milli Lake from the London School of Economics, and Sarah Parkinson from Johns Hopkins University to talk about teaching field research. How can we teach others how to think about, prepare for, and carry out ethical, valuable field research? All of our guests...
Health and Safety in the Field with Ravi Perry and Sarah Zukerman Daly
Stories from the Field - March 16, 2021 06:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe welcome Ravi Perry from Howard University and Sarah Zukerman Daly from Columbia University to talk about the crucial but oft-overlooked issues of health and safety in the field—whether in one's home community or in a foreign location. Ravi and Sarah share some of the personal challenges they'...
Research in China with Enze Han and Robert Ross
Stories from the Field - March 09, 2021 08:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe talk to Enze Han from the University of Hong Kong and Robert Ross from Boston College about the significant potential and challenges of doing research in China. Our guests reflect on everything from their experiences building academic relationships with colleagues at Chinese universities to h...
Field Surveys and Experiments with Matthew Cancian, Kristin Fabbe, and Kristin Michelitch
Stories from the Field - March 02, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe welcome Matthew Cancian from MIT, Kristin Fabbe from Harvard Business School, and Kristin Michelitch from Vanderbilt University to talk about conducting field surveys and experiments. We discuss what goes into designing an experiment or survey, developing local relationships, and navigating t...
Conducting Research Amidst Conflict with Zoe Marks and Will Reno
Stories from the Field - February 23, 2021 09:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWe welcome Zoe Marks from Harvard Kennedy School and Will Reno from Northwestern University to talk about doing research in insecure or conflict-affected situations, and learning how to keep our research participants, our teams, and ourselves safe in difficult environments. Producers: Harper Ba...
Creatively Collecting Information with John McCauley, Rich Nielsen, and Lindsey O'Rourke
Stories from the Field - February 16, 2021 09:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsOnce you're in "the field," how can you most effectively gain knowledge and collect information? How do you build trust and connections with local leaders? How to show respect and become part of a new community? How to access and decipher classified archival documents? We welcome John McCauley f...
Positionality, Emotions, and Research in the Middle East with Carla Abdo-Katsipis, Nadya Hajj, and Ian Lustick
Stories from the Field - February 09, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHow do our identities and lives outside of academia shape our fieldwork? And what does that look like in a region like the Middle East? We talk to Carla Abdo-Katsipis from Wesleyan University, Nadya Hajj from Wellesley College, and Ian Lustick from the University of Pennsylvania about doing rese...
The Ethics of Field Research with Erica Chenoweth and Zachariah Mampilly
Stories from the Field - February 02, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsPeter and Ora welcome Erica Chenoweth from Harvard Kennedy School and Zachariah Mampilly from the Marxe School of International Affairs at Baruch College to discuss research ethics, including whether political scientists should have an individual and/or shared code of ethics, tough decisions abo...
Introduction: Welcome to Stories from the Field
Stories from the Field - January 24, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn this introductory episode, Peter and Ora discuss the evolving definition of "field research," which is conventionally defined as research conducted outside of one’s institution to observe, interact with, and interview people, work in the archives, and otherwise learn about a place and its pol...
Developing Local Knowledge with Christina Greer, Wendy Pearlman, and Paul Staniland
Stories from the Field - January 24, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsOra and Peter welcome Christina Greer from Fordham University, Wendy Pearlman from Northwestern University, and Paul Staniland from the University of Chicago to discuss local knowledge, perhaps the most important aspect of field research. Local knowledge is a collection of facts, beliefs, and pe...
17. Copper deposits in Chile | Ed Bunker
Fieldwork Diaries - February 04, 2019 08:40 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWires. Bronze Age tools. The Statue of Liberty. What do all of these have in common? Copper! Ed Bunker is a PhD researcher at the University of Bristol where he studies the formation of porphyry copper deposits. In this episode he chats to old university pal Eleni about his fieldwork on an activ...
16. Migratory seabirds in the Aleutian Islands | Carley Schacter
Fieldwork Diaries - January 14, 2019 08:45 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCarley Schacter (one of Stacy’s buddies from their time in Newfoundland together) spent 4 field seasons during her PhD on a number of remote islands in the Aleutian Islands of the North Pacific. Her work involved tagging Auklets, a type of migratory seabird, to investigate what they get up to dur...
15. How to do fieldwork on an asteroid | Tim Gregory
Fieldwork Diaries - September 24, 2018 08:11 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat would fieldwork on an asteroid be like? To answer this question Eleni headed to the University of Bristol to chat to cosmochemist and PhD researcher Tim Gregory. He investigates meteorites found on Earth in order to understand the early Solar System. Tim’s dream fieldwork would take hi...
14. Metamorphism and deformation in the Alps | Francesco Giuntoli
Fieldwork Diaries - July 02, 2018 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFrancesco Giuntoli, currently at Sorbonne University, Paris, talks to us about his PhD research at the University of Bern, where he worked in the Italian Alps. We learn about how he uses the classical approach of geological mapping to underpin his lab work, in order to understand the complex jigs...
13. Extremophiles in Ethiopia | Vincent Rennie
Fieldwork Diaries - June 25, 2018 06:19 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingVincent Rennie from the Open University studies some of the world’s most incredible organisms; microbes that can survive the extremes of heat, salinity and pH, organisms fittingly called extremophiles. Studying them means travelling to some of the most extreme and seemingly inhospitable env...
12. Imaging the deep with seismic surveys | Sian Evans
Fieldwork Diaries - June 04, 2018 12:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor many of us seismic images might look like a complicated series of wiggly lines, but to researchers like Sian Evans from Imperial College London they are a fascinating window into the deep geological structures that shape our planet. For this episode we find out how seismic data is collected a...
11. Mineral Exploration in North America | Hannah Mills
Fieldwork Diaries - March 05, 2018 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe’ve gone international this week by interviewing Hannah Mills, an Exploration Geologist based in Vancouver, Canada. Fieldwork is a huge part of her job, taking her to all the corners of North America. Listen in to find out what it is like working in the most remote parts of Northern Canad...
10. Salt and science communication in Canada | Jack Richardson
Fieldwork Diaries - February 19, 2018 09:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJack Richardson is a geologist and PhD researcher based at the University of Birmingham, where he studies the secret world of salt! Using drones and magnetic techniques he is trying to piece together how evaporite rocks (salts that formed when ancient oceans dried up) have flowed and deformed und...
9. Bees and other bugs with Entocast
Fieldwork Diaries - February 05, 2018 09:03 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode we’ve teamed up with fellow podcasters Liam and Nick from Entocast to talk about some more creepy crawlies (because we didn’t get enough of them in Episode 8!). Liam and Nick are both entomologists and PhD researchers at the University of Birmingham. Listen in to hear about why ho...
8. Invasive insects in Antarctica | Jes Bartlett
Fieldwork Diaries - November 27, 2017 08:28 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJes Bartlett is a polar ecologist based at the University of Birmingham, where she is investigating an invasive species of midge in Antarctica. She’s interested in how these little critters survive in extreme polar conditions and the impact that they make on the ecosystems in the region. Je...
Digital Archaeology with kebabs
Cooking with Archaeologists: Food, fieldwork, and stories. - November 16, 2017 00:47 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsWe have a double dose of stimulating discussion in this week's podcast. Well, a triple dose-actually. Dr. Colleen Morgan, a Lecture at the University of York, and Daniel Eddisford, the Field Director for "The Origins of Qatar and Doha Project," join us to discuss digital archaeology and fieldwor...
7. Mountain building in Bhutan | Eleni Wood & Stacy Phillips
Fieldwork Diaries - November 10, 2017 09:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe’ve turned Fieldwork Diaries on its head for Episode 7 - it’s the creators of the podcast being interviewed this week! Matt Kent, star of Episode 1 has been drafted in as our guest host and he is quizzing Eleni Wood and Stacy Phillips, the team behind this very podcast. We both work...
Underwater archaeology, public outreach, photogrammatry, and fish soup
Cooking with Archaeologists: Food, fieldwork, and stories. - November 01, 2017 13:40 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsMassimiliano Ditta may not be the Holy Diver, but we think he is pretty close and pretty awesome. Max works at the Stavanger Maritime Museum as one of their talented and hardworking underwater archaeologists. We are lucky to chat with him and hear about his passion for everything under the sea! ...
6. Chimpanzees in Uganda | David Pettifer
Fieldwork Diaries - October 27, 2017 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDavid Pettifer is a primatologist and behavioural ecologist at the University of Birmingham where he studies how chimpanzees age and how ageing affects their musculoskeletal health. As part of his PhD research, he recently headed out to the wilderness in Uganda to observe wild chimps and their be...
5. Glaciers on Mars | Frances Butcher
Fieldwork Diaries - October 13, 2017 07:30 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFrances Butcher is a PhD researcher at the Open University who combines her love of astronomy and glaciology to study glaciers on Mars! But how can you study glaciers on Mars if you can’t go on fieldwork there? Listen to the episode to find out the ingenious ways in which planetary scientis...
4. Reasons to love fieldwork
Fieldwork Diaries - October 06, 2017 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPutting on your big boots, escaping the office and exploring new environments ; these are just some of the reasons why researchers love fieldwork! At the 2017 CENTA conference, we asked PhD researchers to tell us why they love their fieldwork. Their fieldwork has taken them everywhere from limest...
3. High pressure Himalayan geology in India | Anna Bidgood
Fieldwork Diaries - September 29, 2017 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGeologist Anna Bidgood, from the University of Oxford, takes us on a journey to the top of the highest mountain range on the planet: the Indian Himalaya. Anna works in Ladakh, a region where the air is thin, the wildlife is rare and interesting commuters pass through her field area. She is invest...
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