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Research Secrets, Research ‘Messiness’ and the Complexity of Knowing: Behind the Thesis and the Content’s Page

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What is an appropriate structure for reporting a participant observation ethnographic study that set out to consider the empowerment of young people at risk from issues including homelessness and drug use? The questions addressed in my thesis were: how do you empower young people at risk? How does a Ph.D. develop and change, and what are the processes, influences, and implications of how ‘knowledge’ is constructed by the observer-researcher?

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    Mary O’Dowd

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O’Dowd, M. (2018). Research Secrets, Research ‘Messiness’ and the Complexity of Knowing: Behind the Thesis and the Content’s Page. In: Kember, D., Corbett, M. (eds) Structuring the Thesis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0511-5_38

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