This full day graduate student workshop organized by students, for students, with students, brings together social science graduate students from the four Montreal universities who: (1) have been on fieldwork collecting data, (2) are currently in the field collecting data, or (3) are preparing to go in the field to collect data As today's academia is more diverse in both knowledge generation and the people that inhabit it, we have to tailor our training around these new lived realities and perspectives: understand why some of us face particular barriers to successful fieldwork engage with the ethical challenges around people in the field and our own positionality, limits, traumas, emotional wellbeing as we conduct this type of work and, finally, embed fieldwork in the bigger cycle of qualitative research, which is seldom linear, objective, detached from the subject of research. Sasha Lleshaj and Rose Chabot, Political Science, Faculty of Artsįieldwork is the cornerstone of qualitative social science research, yet students are often poorly trained, operate within a mindset that either mythologizes fieldwork, or obscures its challenges. Website: birksafterdark.ca Field Chronicles: Opening the Black Box of Fieldwork

Episodes are available on Spotify, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, iHeart, or directly on the Anchor website ( ). Each episode is framed as a randomly 'overheard' conversation going on between experts (grad students). The podcast’s premise takes inspiration from the fact that religion is one of the 'evidently' spooky and disconcerting categories in the university in particular, but also in Western society at large. The podcast is produced by Ana de Souza, a PhD student in the School of Religious Studies.

It is named after the historical Birks building which houses the School of Religious Studies. The Birks After Dark podcast is a horror themed ode to late night radio shows. Ana de Souza, School of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts

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