Throughout my research, I draw on a range of qualitative methods that help me stay responsive to emerging theoretical insights and better understand the phenomena I study.

Across my research, I have studied women in live comedy, stand-up comedians, migrant women of color, illustrators, museum curators, and AI developers. This work has taken me to fascinating places, including museum archives, tech events, and the green rooms of comedy venues.

Over the past few years, these are some of the resources I have found most helpful as a management scholar working primarily with qualitative methods.

🤝 Communities & Events for Qualitative Researchers

Together with Kevin Corley, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Marjolaine Rostain, Shivaang Sharma, and Kendall Smith, I co-founded the London + Qualitative Community . This community has helped me meet many qualitative researchers across the United Kingdom, learn from their experiences, and build a stronger sense of belonging in academia. If you are affiliated with a UK-based university and are a doctoral student, postdoc, or faculty member interested in learning more about qualitative research or connecting with other qualitative researchers, please check out our website. We are a welcoming community and are always excited to meet new people.

I previously also co-organized the Navigating Qualitative Dissertations Professional Development Workshop (PDW) at the Academy of Management. This PDW has been running for more than ten years and has been incredibly valuable to me. It has connected me with qualitative scholars from around the world and provided the opportunity to receive insightful one-on-one feedback from many of them.

✍️ Writing & Craft Resources

New Scholars is a highly resourceful YouTube channel where management scholars discuss everything from specific methods of data collection and analysis to theory development and writing. I have found these videos by Davide Ravasi on theorizing from qualitative data especially helpful.

I have also found it incredibly helpful to see how other qualitative scholars approach writing their manuscripts. ProjectScrib , by Charlotte Cloutier, interviewed many qualitative scholars about their writing processes and reading how others approach this craft was very eye-opening.

I was very fortunate that Ph.D. students at UCL are required to take a writing class, which in my case was taught by one of my advisors, Colin Fisher. Colin has a great post on his Substack about how to approach writing as a scholar. He also recommended How to Write a Lot by Paul Silvia, which has helped me build writing habits and organize my work around them. In my first year as a Ph.D. student, Raina Brands recommended Tricks of the Trade by Howard Becker, which has been incredibly helpful in shaping how I think about research and, by extension, how I write about it.