Welcome to the UK and
Ireland Institutional
Ethnography Network!

Here you will find online resources, events, and general information about Institutional Ethnography. We aim to support the growing community of Institutional Ethnographers in the UK and Ireland, but our events are open to anyone worldwide with an interest in Institutional Ethnography.

Events

  • IEN Work in Progress Sessions

    Last Tuesday of every month on Microsoft Teams

    4pm-5.30pm (UK/Ireland time) - convert to your time zone here

    An informal supportive space for people to discuss Institutional Ethnography with others, sharing research, learning, and working out problems. Set up and co-organised by Eleanor Tiplady Higgs, Niamh Storey & Kimberly Kassab with monthly hosting by Órla Meadhbh Murray.

    Next session Tuesday 29th October 2024 4pm - guest speaker: Mara Silva Hope - Ethics and Power Dynamics in IE Research

    Speaker Schedule: IEN WIP Schedule.docx

    Please email Órla to get the Teams link: orla.murray@northumbria.ac.uk

    Email Órla Murray to get the Teams link

  • Navigating Academic Publishing as an Institutional Ethnographer: Some thoughts on its pleasures, perils, and possibilities with Professor Eric Mykhalovskiy

    Friday 20th September 2024 - 3pm-4.30pm (UK/Ireland time) convert to your time zone here

    Online on Zoom (sign up here)

    Join us for this exciting event on academic publishing as an Institutional Ethnographer with Professor Eric Mykhalovskiy (Sociology, York University, Canada). We will have a short talk and then an opportunity for discussion and questions.

    Professor Mykhalovskiy has been working with institutional ethnographic approaches to sociological inquiry since the early 1990s. Most of his research engages critically with public health issues. Over the years, he has conducted studies of evidence-based medicine, the health work of people living with HIV, HIV criminalization, and, most recently, urban residential noise. He has published in a range of academic journals including Social Science & Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, Critical Public Health, Culture, Health & Sexuality, and The Canadian Journal of Sociology. In 2019 he co-edited Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science (University of British Columbia) and in 2020 he co-edited Health Matters: Evidence, Critical Social Science, and Health Care in Canada (University of Toronto Press 2020). He is an associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Public Health and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Critical Public Health. From 2016-2020, he served as the Vice-president of the Thematic Group on Institutional Ethnography, International Sociological Association. He edits the Institutional Ethnography Book Series published by the University of Toronto Press.

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