Empowering Methodologies in Management Research Workshop

Rohit Shah organising themes on post-its.

A few days after the Empowering Conference the project team held a Workshop to plan our next steps. On day One we worked on the Case Study Data the Indian Students brought with them. We participated in Data Analysis sessions focusing on the discovery of Themes to then trying to develop these themes into Concepts and meaningful descriptions. Starting with revising individual case studies we were surprised at the end of the day by how some Topics were replicated in the others.

Jaideep and Nikhil Kumar discussing themes

 On day Two we discussed the planned Project outputs, namely a Chapter book edited by Emma, Sunita and Tim, and an Online Course to be created on the Open University OpenLearn platform and which will be informed by the work done so far. Will post more about this later.

Avilasa Sengupta presenting her data

During the workshop I had the chance to copy the Students' Data Files into a secure space within the University's SharePoint platform. The data sets are comprised of audio-visual material of interviews and participant observation, and transcriptions. Next step is to do an inventory of the data and setup to work on the above project outputs.

And finally we also had time to relax. Breaks were not only refreshing but a good time to talk and know each other more. On day One during the lunch break, Tim brought his nice, vintage(?) camera and took pictures of us.