This research group provides a hub for staff and graduate students of the School whose research interests - empirical, methodological and theoretical - are correspondent with ethnographic and/or qualitative methods, and interpretive analysis.

The activities of the group focus on issues around ethnography — as practice and product — and cultural analysis concerned with the interpretive understanding of meaning, symbols and language.

The research group members come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds including sociology, anthropology, psychology, education, social work, social policy and cultural studies.

There is a strong tradition of ethnographic and interpretive work within the School of Social Sciences, and this group provides a forum for sustaining and developing this work.

Aims

The main aims of the Ethnography, Culture and Interpretive Analysis research group are:

• to sustain and develop high quality ethnographic, qualitative and interpretive research, writing and other scholarly activity at Cardiff ;
• to foster the intellectual interests of research group members, and provide support for research and scholarly activity in ethnographic, cultural and interpretive fields;
• to engage collectively and collaboratively with ongoing and critical debates within ethnographic, cultural and interpretive research;
• to build on existing national and international research links and collaborations within ethnographic, cultural and interpretive research