Dear list-members,
Being so interwoven with people’s cultures and lived experiences, the social sciences are unusually rich in surprising findings that do not easily square with one’s initial hypotheses.
While fieldwork is often replete with spanners in the works, far from fearing such scenarios and treating all curveballs as failures, we should embrace them for affording us the opportunity to “put the problem into the work”, as Professor Tara Brabazon (Professor of Cultural Studies at Charles Darwin University) likes to say.
How to ‘fail better’ is a hot topic in academia. In 2017, Columbia University drew together delegates from the arts, sciences, humanities, education, and law to discuss ‘The Success of Failure’. In a world that not only recognizes but celebrates failure, then, it should be utterly uncontroversial to suggest that failure should be a standard, accepted part of academic practice.
Readers who agree that the question is not one of how we should fail better, but rather one of how we should better incorporate failure into our research and our writing may be interested to read Lex Academic’s new blog on the topic: Putting the Problem into the Work<https://www.lexacademic.com/blog/putting-the-problem-into-the-work-lex-academic-blog/>.
All the best,
Louise
Louise Chapman
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