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For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
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@ottoenglish.bsky.social nice to see your book in the most prestigious book shop in London
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It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty
As Labour flounders and dabbles in the politics of hatred to gain a point or two, it is those far from power who will suffer most, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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by Karen O’Reilly — Reposted by: Karen O’Reilly

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Why a Toolkit for Qualitative Research?

In my new book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, I use a toolkit approach. But what do I mean by this? The toolkit for qualitative research is a collection of expert skills, knowledge, procedures, tools, or information. The…
Why a Toolkit for Qualitative Research?
In my new book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, I use a toolkit approach. But what do I mean by this? The toolkit for qualitative research is a collection of expert skills, knowledge, procedures, tools, or information. The book shares this collection of ‘tools’ across nine chapters, because I believe that once you are familiar with a wide range of tools, you can draw on them as and when required in order to make informed and relevant choices that reflect your own philosophical perspective, that respect your research participants, and that you can explain and justify when asked.
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NEXT WEDS @18:30: Why did “lifestyle migration” capture so many social scientists’ imagination? How has it travelled in the 25 years since The British on the Costa del Sol?

Join author @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, Matthew Hayes & Graham Crow online. buff.ly/fHs6cNK
Lifestyle, Migration and Community Karen O'Reilly, Michaela Benson, Matthew Hayes, Graham Crow Online Wednesday 24 September 18.30–20.00 UTC+1/BST The Sociological Review Foundation Conversations series
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Why a Toolkit for Qualitative Research?

In my new book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, I use a toolkit approach. But what do I mean by this? You might also enjoy The Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone Podcast  wherever you get your podcasts The toolkit for…
Why a Toolkit for Qualitative Research?
In my new book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, I use a toolkit approach. But what do I mean by this? You might also enjoy The Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone Podcast  wherever you get your podcasts The toolkit for qualitative research is a collection of expert skills, knowledge, procedures, tools, or information. The book shares this collection of ‘tools’ across nine chapters, because I believe that once you are familiar with a wide range of tools, you can draw on them as and when required in order to make informed and relevant choices that reflect your own philosophical perspective, that respect your research participants, and that you can explain and justify when asked.
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by Karen O’Reilly

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What is in this blog?

There is a lot of information in this blog. For example: Exercises for every chapter of my book. Assessing the value of qualitative research – is valid, transparent, useful, representative? Does it give us hope? What is sample fitness? The discussion of sampling and sample…
What is in this blog?
There is a lot of information in this blog. For example: Exercises for every chapter of my book. Assessing the value of qualitative research – is valid, transparent, useful, representative? Does it give us hope? What is sample fitness? The discussion of sampling and sample size in qualitative research. What are blended stories and indirect free speech A call to think outside of the box when it comes to designing, qualitative research methods…
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There’s so much talk. Trump is also good at it. I’ve started to only care about actions. Talk is free.
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Assessing the value of qualitative research

Qualitative research should be guided and evaluated according to its methodological principles not by any false or imported ideas of how it should be. In my book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, Policy Press, 2025, I argue…
Assessing the value of qualitative research
Qualitative research should be guided and evaluated according to its methodological principles not by any false or imported ideas of how it should be. In my book Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, Policy Press, 2025, I argue that however you approach your qualitative research, whatever methods you use - whether it is fully immersive, rich and extensive, or short-term, limited and focused, be it visual or sensory, virtual or blended – you should be guided and evaluate it by its principles not by any false idea of how it should be.
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“Modern retreat must not seem appealing. The people of Hiroshima built nothing behind walls after the Pacific War; they rebuilt with international engagement, peace treaties, and economic ordering grounded in transparency.” bylinetimes.com/2025/08/06/l...
Lessons from Fire: What Hiroshima, Tariffs and Japan's Rising Far Right Have in Common
On the 80th Anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and as Japan's far-right surges, author Iain MacGregor reflects on what Japan must never forget
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by Karen O’Reilly

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Yes, I hadn’t thought of it like that. That’s depressing. Do you read Byline Times?
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I’m thinking we need a whole new way of thinking about how the world works. Governments have much less power than tech bros, big corporations, and actors related to rogue states. It’s all a bit scary and depressing. First change we need - better education! More community?
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Goldman Sachs analysis on growth forecasts and “How Spain Became Europe's Fastest-Growing Economy”

Largely due to the immigrant influx it is now the economic engine of the eurozone since the end of the pandemic.

Immigration benefits an economy. We knew that!
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Goldman Sachs habla con claridad sobre cómo está España: a más de uno le fastidiará las vacaciones
Han compartido sus previsión económica para los próximos años.
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by Karen O’Reilly

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Qualitative Data Analysis is not (just) Thematic Analysis. It is always (also) Interpretive. 

In my book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit (25 March 2025), I introduce the new term ‘Interpretive Analysis’ and I don’t (just) use thematic analysis. My main reason for…
Qualitative Data Analysis is not (just) Thematic Analysis. It is always (also) Interpretive. 
In my book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit (25 March 2025), I introduce the new term ‘Interpretive Analysis’ and I don’t (just) use thematic analysis. My main reason for not using the term ‘Thematic Analysis’ is that when taken literally that simply means analysing and looking for things. A theme can be a meaning, understanding, insight, norm, psychological strategy, or almost any ‘thing’ you are interested in.
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I’ve seen recent reports that show that the majority of people in the UK care more about the NHS and education than they do about immigration, and the majority support taxing the wealthy more. So what on earth is happening to democracy?
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Trump is playing with money again. He and his mates will be sure to profit from stock market turmoil.
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ECR opportunity: 20 funded places on our Early Career Researchers Day.

Successful applicants will join us in Glasgow for workshops on migration studies & ethnographic practice led by Shahram Khosravi & @profkarenoreilly.bsky.social

Apply by 8 September. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
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Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura
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by Karen O’Reilly

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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
Ban plastic around flowers
Every time there is a tragedy, people bring flowers but all we see is a sea of plastic. We don’t see the flowers. There is no beauty. Just dangerous, damaging plastic. Where does all that plastic and ...
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Nine Heuristics for qualitative analysis 

In my new book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit (Policy Press), I outline a new approach for interpretive qualitative analysis using Nine Heuristics. These are: Learning as you go Inductive immersion (becoming very familiar…
Nine Heuristics for qualitative analysis 
In my new book, Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit (Policy Press), I outline a new approach for interpretive qualitative analysis using Nine Heuristics. These are: Learning as you go Inductive immersion (becoming very familiar with all your data) Annotating (adding notes) Coding (making sure your notes can be found again and you can sort them into groups)
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"Accordingly, it is my pleasure and my honor to announce my nomination of Jerome Powell to be the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve." - Donald Trump
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We even have a real-life experiment that proves paying farm workers a fair wage can be done. And prices went up so little, PEOPLE DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE.

In 2005, tomato pickers in FL struck a deal with Yum! Brands (Taco Bell, KFC, & others) to guarantee higher wages.

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Coalition of Immokalee Workers - Wikipedia
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Not to be flippant but evolution did see to it that we're really good at getting food off of trees & bushes. We have a rather meaningful several-million-year head start over the robots here.
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This helps explain why it's so hard to automate farm labor!

It's not that it's too hard to make a robot pick crops.

It's that humans are really, REALLY good at it. It's hard to make a robot that's BETTER at it than people.
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A *slow* strawberry picker can get 20lbs/hr. If they make $20/hr, that's only $0.25 for a pint basket.

Sure, that's a noticeable price difference. And it's still nowhere near "doubling or tripling" the cost of food, as I've seen people claim repeatedly.

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The average orange picker pulls 876 lbs/hour.

At $20/hr, that would cost 2 cents per pound for labor.

Here's the source I'm using for lbs/hr btw: swfrec.ifas.ufl.edu/docs/pdf/eco...
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I know "650 lbs an hour" sounds crazy, because it kinda is.

But that also just means filling one of these buckets every ~3 minutes. That's doable for the average healthy adult.

(Doing it 10hrs/day for weeks in a row is the hard part.)
Photo of tomato pickers tossing filled tomato buckets up to a guy on the truck, so he can fill the bins & toss their empty buckets back to them. The buckets are roughly the same dimensions as a 5gal bucket, but tapered so they'll nest into each other in storage.
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Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
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Majority of Brits support sanctions against Israel, new polling finds
The majority of Brits would support the UK putting economic sanctions on Israel, new polling has revealed.

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Majority of Brits support sanctions against Israel, new polling finds - Global Justice Now
The majority of Brits would support the UK putting economic sanctions on Israel, new polling has revealed. The polling, commissioned by campaign group Global Justice Now and carried out by […]
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Our book is currently free on kindle. Please share with migration researchers #ruralmigration #practicetheory again @kamilafialkowska.bsky.social @samscott23.bsky.social
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