Hello, the Essex Summer School offers a good two-week course on observational methods, see http://www.essex.ac.uk/methods/Courses06/outlines06/1Noutline06.htm It's rather introductory, but I found it very useful. Best regards, Lea Sgier At 12:38 08.03.2006, you wrote: >Hello, > >I am a PhD student about to commence an ethnographic study and am >wondering if anyone knows of any good observational training courses? > >Kind regards, >Aileen