• Dec2022 07 13:00 - 16:00

    Distinguished speaker series | Exploring ethnography

    Online

Graduate School invites a certain number of outstanding professors from universities worldwide to give informative lectures and workshops on academic research and career planning. This series aims to provide our PhD students the access to scholars with a high degree of expertise, as well as the opportunity to better understand research methods and achieve productive outcomes.

Workshop Information

Exploring (Organizational) Ethnography between Toolbox and World-Making

Overview: In this workshop, we will discuss research that follows the ethnographic tradition of examining “culture” through a close observation of people in social contexts. Challenges of ethnographic research are many and varied and include questions of how to gain access to culturally sensitive or sites; becoming ‘invisible’, how to observe and listen, disengaging, how to document and analyze ethnographic data.

Date: December 7, 2022

Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Beijing Time)

Speaker Bio

Ziyun Fan is Associate Professor in Organization Studies in the School for Business and Society at the University of York, UK. Her research interests locate within organizational theory broadly and have a sociological and historical focus. Drawing on qualitative and ethnographic approaches, she is fascinated by the ‘irregularities’ and ‘peculiarities’ in our everyday organizational life and has explored topics such as organizational secrecy, communication, gossip, silence, temporality, and space.

Ziyun has a BA (Hons) in International Business Management from the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China and an MA in Management and Organizational Analysis from the University of Warwick. She obtained her PhD in Management from Royal Holloway, University of London in September 2018.