HDR Seminar

Event Name
HDR Seminar
Date
8 October 2015
Time
11:30 am - 01:00 pm
Location
Bankstown Campus

Address (Room): 05.LG.04

Description

Abstract: This seminar explores the issues and procedures involved in conducting qualitative fieldwork in a variety of settings in which the researcher is an 'outsider' to the culture he/she is studying. Topics considered include: 1) preparing for the field studies; 2) access to communities; 3) responsibility to the communities studied; 4) methods, including participant observation and interviews; 5) ethical considerations; 6) recording the material and writing up the research. Examples of Professor Cox's own field work in Alaska, Zimbabwe and Australia will be provided. Biography: James L. Cox is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies in the University of Edinburgh and Adjunct Professor in the Religion and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney. In 1999, he was appointed Reader in Religious Studies in the University of Edinburgh and was awarded a Personal Chair in 2006. From 1993 to 1998, he directed the University of Edinburgh's African Christianity Project which included eight African universities in southern and western Africa. He has held prior academic posts at the University of Zimbabwe, Westminster College, Oxford and Alaska Pacific University. In 2009, he was Visiting Professor of Religion in the University of Sydney and most recently was appointed the de Carle Distinguished Lecturer for 2012 in the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. His latest monographs include: The Invention of God in Indigenous Societies (Routledge, 2014), An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion (Continuum, 2010), From Primitive to Indigenous: The Academic Study of Indigenous Religions (Ashgate, 2007) and A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion (Continuum, 2006).

This is an open and free event.

Speakers: Prof. James Cox

Contact
Name: Kaitlyn Maucort

k.maucort@westernsydney.edu.au

Phone: 9360

School / Department: School of Social Sciences and Psychology