IE: Methodological Issues and Innovations

Tuesday, 8 July 2025: 11:00-12:45
Location: FSE011 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
WG06 Institutional Ethnography (host committee)

Language: English

Practising Institutional Ethnography: Methodological Issues and Innovations

In this session we will explore and discuss issues of a methodological nature, including, but not limited to:

Collaborative research practices withih an IE perspective, with community groups, partners, and other developers who might be non-IE research teams. Advocating for IE research in institutional ethics review processes (for example wihtin Universities); handling issues that come up during IE fieldwork research; new ways of generating and analysing data in IE research; new ways to share IE analysis with different audiences.

We invite accounts of successful strategies as well as reflections on attempts that did not come up as expected, and the lessons we can draw from those experiences. We also welcome discussion of continuing, unresolved methodological issues.

Session Organizer:
Adriana SUÁREZ DELUCCHI, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile
Oral Presentations
Innovative Applications of Archival Institutional Ethnography: Lessons from National Socialist-Era Healthcare for Ethical Practices Today
Hans-Peter DE RUITER, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA; Melanie BREZNIK, University of Applied Science Corinthia, Austria
Mapping the Social Organisation of Neglect in the Case of Fibromyalgia: Using Smith’s Sociology for People to Inform a Systems-Focused Literature Review
Caroline CUPIT, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Teresa FINLAY, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Catherine POPE, University of Oxford, United Kingdom