Bethlehem Tekola
@bethlehem.bsky.social
Qualitative Research | Research Ethics | Research involving and impacting marginalised communities and groups
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I did a blog post for NCRM - Should qualitative researchers be using GenAI?
I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
NCRM News | Qualitative research and generative AI: reflections on an NCRM seminar
Should qualitative researchers be using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)? Recently, more than 400 internationally renowned qualitative researchers co-signed a commentary rejecting GenAI for
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November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I did a blog post for NCRM - Should qualitative researchers be using GenAI?
I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
I’ve used LLMs but in-depth analytic engagement is a creative joy of quali research
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Are you worried about the devastating cuts we are seeing to arts, humanities & social sciences in UK universities? Last call for my lecture in Leicester this Thurs 27th Nov on the value of these subjects and how they support UK security, cohesion and prosperity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
Shaping a Brighter Future
The first event in our Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, delivered by Hetan Shah, Chief Executive, The British Academy
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November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Are you worried about the devastating cuts we are seeing to arts, humanities & social sciences in UK universities? Last call for my lecture in Leicester this Thurs 27th Nov on the value of these subjects and how they support UK security, cohesion and prosperity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...
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Come and join us to discuss the whys and wherefores, joys and torture of writing - in solidarity, in relations with participants, in neoliberal academia.
We have a panel, snacks, and time for everybody to take part in the conversation
Bush House KCL, 4 Nov 2-5pm
We have a panel, snacks, and time for everybody to take part in the conversation
Bush House KCL, 4 Nov 2-5pm
👩🏫 Why do we write? Writing (together) in participatory research projects - why, for whom and how?
@floracornish.bsky.social is a panellist at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social workshop on 4 Nov, and colleagues and PhD students are invited to join
👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/why-d...
@floracornish.bsky.social is a panellist at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social workshop on 4 Nov, and colleagues and PhD students are invited to join
👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/why-d...
October 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Come and join us to discuss the whys and wherefores, joys and torture of writing - in solidarity, in relations with participants, in neoliberal academia.
We have a panel, snacks, and time for everybody to take part in the conversation
Bush House KCL, 4 Nov 2-5pm
We have a panel, snacks, and time for everybody to take part in the conversation
Bush House KCL, 4 Nov 2-5pm
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🎤 Proposals for our Centre for Qualitative Research, University of Bath Qualitative Research Symposium at University of Bath School of Management are open until November 7th!
Find out more and submit your talk, symposium and workshop abstracts here:
www.bath.ac.uk/events/quali...
#qualitative
Find out more and submit your talk, symposium and workshop abstracts here:
www.bath.ac.uk/events/quali...
#qualitative
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October 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
🎤 Proposals for our Centre for Qualitative Research, University of Bath Qualitative Research Symposium at University of Bath School of Management are open until November 7th!
Find out more and submit your talk, symposium and workshop abstracts here:
www.bath.ac.uk/events/quali...
#qualitative
Find out more and submit your talk, symposium and workshop abstracts here:
www.bath.ac.uk/events/quali...
#qualitative
Certified organic and AI-free: New stamp for human-written books launches www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Certified organic and AI-free: New stamp for human-written books launches
As machine-made books flood online marketplaces, a new UK initiative is introducing an Organic Literature stamp to help readers identify books created by real authors
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October 16, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Certified organic and AI-free: New stamp for human-written books launches www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
hybrid conferences should be the norm, not the exception.
October 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
hybrid conferences should be the norm, not the exception.
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With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis
* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis
Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research - Impact of Social Sciences
Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis
* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis
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New open access paper by me and @ginnybraun.bsky.social - Exploring U.K. University Students’ Social Perceptions of Dating and Physical Disability Using Story Completion. There are extensive Supplementary Materials which we hope are useful for teaching reflexive TA: awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
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October 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
New open access paper by me and @ginnybraun.bsky.social - Exploring U.K. University Students’ Social Perceptions of Dating and Physical Disability Using Story Completion. There are extensive Supplementary Materials which we hope are useful for teaching reflexive TA: awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Melissa McCallum's important research using qualitative surveys, interviews, focus groups & reflexive thematic analysis (supervised by me) -
Exploring Black Women's Experiences in Psychotherapeutic Training and Practice in the UK - Counselling and Psychotherapy Research share.google/QAahdyVCLjtV...
Exploring Black Women's Experiences in Psychotherapeutic Training and Practice in the UK - Counselling and Psychotherapy Research share.google/QAahdyVCLjtV...
Exploring Black Women's Experiences in Psychotherapeutic Training and Practice in the UK
Background
Discussions around racial disparities and injustice have gained increasing prominence in psychotherapy and counselling research. However, research in this area has been criticised for its.....
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October 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Melissa McCallum's important research using qualitative surveys, interviews, focus groups & reflexive thematic analysis (supervised by me) -
Exploring Black Women's Experiences in Psychotherapeutic Training and Practice in the UK - Counselling and Psychotherapy Research share.google/QAahdyVCLjtV...
Exploring Black Women's Experiences in Psychotherapeutic Training and Practice in the UK - Counselling and Psychotherapy Research share.google/QAahdyVCLjtV...
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👀 ICYMI: "While 92% of undergraduate students are using Generative AI, only 36% said they had been offered support by their university"
#AcademicSky #HigherEducation
#AcademicSky #HigherEducation
A new academic year has begun, but UK universities are still struggling to respond to AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Mark Carrigan argues university staff are still struggling to develop coherent, contextual and disciplinary responses to AI’s impact on teaching and learning.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
👀 ICYMI: "While 92% of undergraduate students are using Generative AI, only 36% said they had been offered support by their university"
#AcademicSky #HigherEducation
#AcademicSky #HigherEducation
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I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels
Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
www.thetimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured
Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today
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October 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Messy, emotional, and necessary: PhD student and research assistant Jo Law reflects on ethical #QualitativeResearch with marginalised groups in this month's #ResearchImpact blog:
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@kingsioppn.bsky.social @bethlehem.bsky.social
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@kingsioppn.bsky.social @bethlehem.bsky.social
Impact in Qualitative Research: Jo Law on Messy, Emotional and Necessary Ethical Research with Marginalised Populations | QUAHRC
Jo Law is a qualitative research assistant at the Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre at King’s College London, working on the qualitative component of the EDEN project, which examines the use ...
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October 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Messy, emotional, and necessary: PhD student and research assistant Jo Law reflects on ethical #QualitativeResearch with marginalised groups in this month's #ResearchImpact blog:
www.quahrc.co.uk/podcasts-blo...
@kingsioppn.bsky.social @bethlehem.bsky.social
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@kingsioppn.bsky.social @bethlehem.bsky.social
"Conducting research with marginalised populations is inevitably messy. It involves compromises, contradictions, and continuous negotiation between competing demands. As participants let me into their lives on the promise that their voices would be heard, the responsibility was profound."
Messy, emotional, and necessary: PhD student and research assistant Jo Law reflects on ethical #QualitativeResearch with marginalised groups in this month's #ResearchImpact blog:
www.quahrc.co.uk/podcasts-blo...
@kingsioppn.bsky.social @bethlehem.bsky.social
www.quahrc.co.uk/podcasts-blo...
@kingsioppn.bsky.social @bethlehem.bsky.social
Impact in Qualitative Research: Jo Law on Messy, Emotional and Necessary Ethical Research with Marginalised Populations | QUAHRC
Jo Law is a qualitative research assistant at the Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre at King’s College London, working on the qualitative component of the EDEN project, which examines the use ...
www.quahrc.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Conducting research with marginalised populations is inevitably messy. It involves compromises, contradictions, and continuous negotiation between competing demands. As participants let me into their lives on the promise that their voices would be heard, the responsibility was profound."
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Long Covid has now overtaken Asthma in the US, as a cause of chronic health disease in children. There is currently no cure. Yet no action is being taken and Violet Affleck is very much on point.
September 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Long Covid has now overtaken Asthma in the US, as a cause of chronic health disease in children. There is currently no cure. Yet no action is being taken and Violet Affleck is very much on point.
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This is an essay, a reading list and a poem on why I think Pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism and Decolonisation can be insightful tools for realising visions of flourishing future worlds for all.
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Pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism and Decolonisation: A reading list
Knowledge will be the first frontier of our freedom.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This is an essay, a reading list and a poem on why I think Pan-Africanism, Afrofuturism and Decolonisation can be insightful tools for realising visions of flourishing future worlds for all.
folukeafrica.com/pan-africani...
folukeafrica.com/pan-africani...
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Unequal pressures: new #qualitative work from the QUAHRC team explores how young people from different backgrounds had very different #Covid experiences, and why this is still relevant to widening inequality
www.kcl.ac.uk/how-disadvan...
www.kcl.ac.uk/how-disadvan...
Unequal pressures: how disadvantage shaped young people's education…
School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just disrupt learning, they revealed and intensified deep inequalities that continue to shape young people’s lives today. While some children…
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September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Unequal pressures: new #qualitative work from the QUAHRC team explores how young people from different backgrounds had very different #Covid experiences, and why this is still relevant to widening inequality
www.kcl.ac.uk/how-disadvan...
www.kcl.ac.uk/how-disadvan...
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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How do researchers study experiences that are "too shattering to put into words"? MAshNup method uses art-making, metaphor analysis, and narrative techniques to help participants explore difficult experiences in ethical, sensitive ways.
Read the article here: doi.org/10.1332/3050...
Read the article here: doi.org/10.1332/3050...
September 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
How do researchers study experiences that are "too shattering to put into words"? MAshNup method uses art-making, metaphor analysis, and narrative techniques to help participants explore difficult experiences in ethical, sensitive ways.
Read the article here: doi.org/10.1332/3050...
Read the article here: doi.org/10.1332/3050...
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Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students
Highly educated Kenyans working for essay mills ghostwrite academic work that students pass off as their own
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September 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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I have always hated the way smart speakers and chatbots mimic amicability and draw people in to talking to them as if there is a person there.
Great to read a scholarly exploration, using dear old Gigerenzer and Grice to set out the problem 🌟
Great to read a scholarly exploration, using dear old Gigerenzer and Grice to set out the problem 🌟
💥New: ChatGPT doesn’t think like a human, so why does it speak like one?
✍️George Gaskell (@lsemethodology.bsky.social)
#ChatGPT #Ethics #ConversationAnalysis
✍️George Gaskell (@lsemethodology.bsky.social)
#ChatGPT #Ethics #ConversationAnalysis
ChatGPT doesn’t think like a human, so why does it speak like one? - Impact of Social Sciences
Large language models like ChatGPT adopt aspects of human speech to give the impression of human intelligence. George Gaskell highlights the limits of ChatGPT’s conversational ethics, common sense and...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I have always hated the way smart speakers and chatbots mimic amicability and draw people in to talking to them as if there is a person there.
Great to read a scholarly exploration, using dear old Gigerenzer and Grice to set out the problem 🌟
Great to read a scholarly exploration, using dear old Gigerenzer and Grice to set out the problem 🌟
"In 2019, Iceland made headlines as one of the first countries to implement a four-day workweek...Nearly six years later, the results are clear: this bold move has proven to be a game-changer, not just for the workforce, but for society as a whole."
www.wecb.fm/iceland-embr...
www.wecb.fm/iceland-embr...
Iceland Embraced a 4-Day Workweek in 2019 – Now, Nearly Six Years On, All Gen Z Forecasts Have Materialized
In 2019, Iceland made headlines as one of the first countries to implement a four-day workweek, not by passing a blanket law, but through agreements
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September 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
"In 2019, Iceland made headlines as one of the first countries to implement a four-day workweek...Nearly six years later, the results are clear: this bold move has proven to be a game-changer, not just for the workforce, but for society as a whole."
www.wecb.fm/iceland-embr...
www.wecb.fm/iceland-embr...
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Are you, might you become, or do you know a transnational scholar from the Global South? Or do you work with one or more? If so, this insightful, creatively written book will be of interest. It's part of the series I co-edit with @patthomson.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Insider-Guid...
August 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Are you, might you become, or do you know a transnational scholar from the Global South? Or do you work with one or more? If so, this insightful, creatively written book will be of interest. It's part of the series I co-edit with @patthomson.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Insider-Guid...
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No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
September 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.