Dr Ola Michalec
The absolute pinnacle of British engineering • unprofessional account of a Bristol Uni STSish researcher interested in energy innovations, cyber security and stem lords • cover by disect.me
- One of the main reasons I keep asking people to support artists on a #BandcampFriday. I could not have possibly phrased that better. The battle against Spotify and the like is psychical as much as it is political.
- I couldn't get myself to sign up to another digital service but managed to babysit a vinyl player for a year, so happy to report I'm now a buyer of physical music 🌞
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- I can't wait until social science methods gives up on "codes" and admits that we all actually only work with misshapen bulging collections of code-themes. Also the "code" and "theme" distinction is a nightmare for anyone even mildly neurodiverse.
- Part of me is really salty that the Braun and Clarke TA paper is so famous - you can't claim the act of categorisation as 'your' method. On the other hand, lots of colleagues have found having instructions way more helpful and reassuring than the Law's 'after method' type stuff
- ...suppose you need to understand where the idea of 'rigour' in quali research comes from to then challenge it. Meanwhile, major STS journals treat methods as a footnote 🤷🏼♂️
