Externe Publikationen

When your lab is the world but the world is closed down

Ruppel, Samantha
Externe Publikationen (2020)

published on elephantinthelab.org, 09.06.2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3885618
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Stay at home. This sentence has become a common mantra for all of us during the last weeks. Most of my academic colleagues and friends are among the lucky ones who can actually stay at home and do not need to go to work. Working from home, we all fight for a bit of normalcy and routine, doing our best to teach online, discuss papers with colleagues over the phone and follow a (more or less) structured work schedule. Because for much of what social scientists do they only need a laptop and a desk, they can easily work from home. But this is only the case for those who do not depend on qualitative data collection – and thus, interacting with other people.