Blog post by Rasika Soman
Rasika Soman, a Master’s student from York University reflects on how the RiDNet conference, held recently at the University of Leeds, helped her to reflect on her own research project.
“Visiting the conference on Fieldwork in Development Contexts organized by the Researchers in Development Network (RidNet) at the University of Leeds was nothing less than a delight for me. This was due to various reasons- the knowledgeable and interesting presenters and their well-researched presentations, the warmth and affection by which we were received at the conference, and most importantly the fact that I could completely relate my study to discussions of the presenters and their experiences in doing fieldwork with the so called marginalized or for that matter, underprivileged. One of the factors which I could completely relate to was feeling like or being made to feel like an outsider in my own country when I am interviewing people from my own country which are not of the same social class.