Insider Research
Episode Description
In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Roxana Willis (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies; University of Oxford) about doing insider research.
Readings on Insider Research Recommended by Dr Roxana Willis
Jones, D. (1970). Towards a Native Anthropology. 29(4) Human Organization 251.
Ellis, C. (2007). Telling Secrets, Revealing Lives: Relational Ethics in Research with Intimate Others. 13(1) Qualitative Inquiry 3.
Rosaldo, R. (2014). ‘Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage’ in The Day of Shelly’s Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief (Duke University Press).
Willis, R. (2019). Observations online: Finding the ethical boundaries of Facebook research. 15(1) Research Ethics 1.
About the Speaker
Dr Roxana Willis
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Dr Roxana Willis is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow of the European Union and a Junior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Cameroon Conflict Research Group at the University of Oxford. Previously, Roxana was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy and a Junior Research Fellow in Law at University College, Oxford. She holds an LLB in Law with European Legal Studies from the University of Kent; an LLM in Economic Inequality Law from the School of Oriental and Africa Studies; and a DPhil in Law from the University of Oxford. In January 2023, Roxana joins the LSE as an Assistant Professor in Law.