This workshop will help facilitate a better understanding of how to do fieldwork aboard, and some of the problems a researcher might face in the foreign contexts. Our discussion will include both travelling to your own home country, as well as travelling to a foreign country for work.

The workshop will also help research think about risk assessment plans as part of their research design. The workshop will further include:

• Some examples and experiences of archival research, elite interviews, oral history and ethnographic research and official permissions.
• Insider/outsider experiences of doing research
• Gatekeeping
• Communication and safety
• Culture shock and reverse culture shock
• FCO advice, local advice and safety.
• When fieldwork goes wrong: lack of access, data unsuitable, personal wellbeing etc.