Teaching

We are keen on customising new learning programmes, academic modules and training workshops with research groups, NGOs, and other community-based organisations, businesses, and social enterprises. 

Our teaching and training styles integrate embodied and multimodal practices including role-play, walk-shopping, transect walking (and other mobile approaches), including collaborative photography and filmmaking in order to explore ways of co-learning beyond static confines of the classroom. We hold workshops and seminars in the following areas.

Project-based training:

– Community-based qualitative & participatory fieldwork methods , particularly for non social scientists. research groups, social enterprises, and other community actors (including mixed methods and multimodal formats);

– Participatory visioning workshops (context specific, community embedded); 

– Project ideation & grant proposal writing and preparation, particularly suited for community-based and activist groups.

– Equitable project design and management, particularly for research groups intending on building collaborative and co-generative knowledge partnerships.

Disciplinary-oriented training:

– Field schools in ethnographic practice for graduate students in the environmental social sciences, humanities, and other interdisciplinary projects;  

– Critical academic & self-editing skills for graduate students 

Background materials 

I´ve served as a lecturer at the University of Bremen´s Anthropology Department and Institute for Sociology teaching courses in Maritime Anthropology, and Development Sociology (2015-2020). I´ve also held academic writing workshops and clinics at the University of Bonn´s Centre for Development Research/ZEF between 2015 and 2017. My last grant project, the DFG-funded BlueUrban project had us developing a full year´s ethnographic ´field´ methods training programme for project-based staff at the University of Indonesia in 2022. These topical themes have included the following and can be further integrated and tailored. These themes/modules include:

– Ethnographic praxes for ´field´ research teams;

– Storytelling as research, research as storytelling;

– Reflexive writing, observation, journaling & autoethnographic practices; 

– Interview transcription, qualitative data coding & grounded theory 

– Mobile and counter/cartographic methods for community engagement, learning & evaluation: