Institutional Ethnography Intensive Working Week Workshops

Intensive working weeks with Dorothy and Susan are designed for up to six participants to work on their own projects in scheduled individual meetings and group conversations. These 5-day Weeks have proved highly successful in providing intensive guidance and structure for participants to make  progress on developing their IE skills, on planning dissertation projects, research design and methods, data organization, and writing accounts and books based on institutional ethnography practice.

The mapping in action video on this website shows working with participant Barbara Imle during one of these Weeks.

The publications below are by two women who attended an Intensive Working Week and followed up working with Susan on a consulting basis.

Susan Turner has been an extraordinary mentor for new and more experienced Institutional Ethnographers, with a real knack for helping people clarify and advance their research interests.  She’s been the preeminent leader in the development of techniques for mapping the ruling relations—based on the approach she developed from her fascinating scholarship on municipal planning processes.  And she has provided models for research conducted in partnership with community groups.  I’m delighted that through this new website she is sharing her knowledge and insights.

Marjorie DeVault, Professor Emerita (Sociology), Syracuse University, USA

 

 

“The knowledge and experience I gained from working with Susan absolutely changed the direction of not only my research, but my career as well. I left the Working Intensive with the ability to discuss IE confidently and clearly, and with an increased passion for IE as a powerful approach to research that has endless potential to advance meaningful change. I will forever be grateful that I had this opportunity, and I know Susan will continue to inspire academics and activists alike as she helps them navigate the process of conducting practical, empirically sound research.”

Barbara Imle, PhD candidate, Sociology, Portland State University, USA