Driven by personal concerns

Researchers can be personally affected by the topic of their research. Like the educational scientist with family roots in Algeria who has experienced anti-Muslim racism at first-hand and has made it her research topic. She and four other researchers discuss how they deal with such overlaps between the professional and the personal.

• Personal involvement in your own research
• Truth by numbers
• “It’s impossible to analyse a dataset without making certain assumptions”
• The potential pitfalls of the subjective turn