Coffee & Cocktails

17/01/2025

Seminar Refreshments
**New book coming soon! Pre-order now: http://bit.ly/OOYM

11/01/2025

Amen.

15/11/2024

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22/10/2024

Tis the season!

08/10/2024

This is something I would do...

23/09/2024

EARLY RELEASE- Ep. 44- Climate Change and the Bengal Delta

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‘Climate change’ according to Dr Camelia Dewan, is used as a term to attract donor funding, but to what extent does this funding actually help those in need? In this fascinating episode on the Bengal Delta, we take a deep dive into the world of NGOs and explore how short-term projects in the development industry can have a negative effect on the communities most effected by infrastructure intervention. With microcredits known for their high interest rates, the repayment for these is very high, which can result in social stigmas (and the marrying off of daughters) for the poorest of women who are unable to repay their weekly debts.

To learn more, check out Dr Dewan’s book on ‘Misreading the Bengal Delta'.

To access the episode on Patreon head to:
https://www.patreon.com/coffeeandcocktailspodcast

05/07/2024

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25/03/2024

As the Coffee & Cocktails Podcast looks to finally close its doors in the next couple of months, I wanted to thank all of you for coming along with me on this wonderful journey. We still have a few more cracking episodes to post in the lead up to summer, but in the meantime I wanted to let my fellow podcasters know that I still plan to be a part of the podcasting space. Should you ever need a guest-host, speaker, and/or researcher I am just an email away.

Otherwise I wish you all a wonderful week and stay tuned for the remaining upcoming episodes!

29/02/2024

We'd like to introduce you all to our latest guest speaker, Dr Chiara Cocco, whose Bonus Episode on 'Advocating for Autoethnography' is available now on our Patreon!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-99322350

Chiara is an anthropologist with a genuine interest in people and their lived experience, especially marginalised and silenced communities. She worked as a Research Assistant in the Disability Inclusive Science Careers (DISC) project at the Heriot-Watt University, researching the experiences of disabled academics and delivering disability training to universities and professional bodies. Through this experience she became more aware of the stigma surrounding menstrual health and discrimination and marginalisation in the workplace faced by those who menstruate and experience (peri)menopause.

Chiara has recently joined the UKRI funded EDI Caucus, aimed at creating inclusive and accessible careers across the Research and Innovation ecosystem. Her research looks at the career life-cycle, focusing on menstrual health and (peri)menopause in the workplace, addressing the barriers to career development and progression for those who experience problematic menstruation and (peri)menopause.

Chiara is passionate about ethnographic methods, particularly autoethnography. Her own experience as a menstruating researcher with caring responsibilities heavily informs her work and drives her commitment to improve research careers for all.

23/02/2024

If there is one thing I learned over the course of my doctoral career, it is that anthropologists are storytellers. Our objective, if we are to follow the advice of novelist, Neil Gaiman, is to answer the question, ‘Why should the reader care?’ But more importantly, why should we care about the people we are writing about, and how do we ‘imbue’, as Gaiman puts it, ‘that care into [our] writing’ (2019) in order to instil a sense of urgency in our readers to turn the pages of an ethnographic text?

In this latest addition to the Coffee & Cocktails podcast, I offer my Patrons a private reading of what was, quite honestly, one of the hardest, but quite possibly one of the most important, chapters that I felt the need to write in my book, ‘Segregation in language education: the case of South Tyrol, Italy’.

Ethnography as a practice, let alone as a discipline, is deeply misunderstood both in the academic world as well as in industry. My hope with this chapter is to provide some clarity to a discipline which has so much to offer society as a whole. You don’t have to have a background in anthropology, journalism, or even Italian studies to appreciate the value that comes with being an ethnographer.

If you’d like to listen, make sure to check out my audio chapter via the Patreon link below:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/book-release-1-99056335

You can also go to Palgrave Macmillan’s website to learn more about my book:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-32747-6

Thank you.

This book is an ethnographic study which explores the social tensions between German- and Italian-speaking citizens in South Tyrol, and the long-term.