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Dr Carlos Ferreira
Methods and Ethics Seminar
Outline
Biodiversity offsets
Researching market emergence
Context
Approach
Constraints
Biodiversity Offsets
Biodiversity offsets?
Objectives
Research Context
PhD Project;
Financed by the Sustainable Consumption
Institute (University of Manchester);
Project started on the Department of Economics
Ontological, epistemological, methodological issues
Approach
Think of markets as forms of governance;
Research processes involved in emergence of
markets
not on market schedule or economic efficiency;
Agents
Case
studies
Geographies
Technologies
Best Practice
Highlights issues surrounding:
Candidates must:
Adapting Methods
Elites
Access
Time
No interviewees, no PhD
Time/location constraints
Most interviews in VOIP.
Self-censoring participants
Lack of non-verbal cues may have been involved.
Adapting
Participant-as-observer ethnographic observation
(Gold 1958)
Researcher to go to workshops on the topic;
Public presentations and informal conversations with
relevant agents.
Getting on with it
Fieldwork: 3 mottos
Addendum
Thank you!
Any questions?
carlos.ferreira@coventry.ac.uk
@FerreiraCEM