With the increasing calls for large multi- and interdisciplinary research teams in health research, team ethnography features more and more as a methodological approach. For instance, global health projects, which rely on the collaboration among people in and across various communities, societies and countries, are particularly well suited for team ethnography. Team members in these projects, however, often experience competing demands and obligations to and from the local communities in which they work, to and from team members in the different countries, to and from health policy makers and to and from funding bodies. Added to this mix is the pressure to maintain a consistent level of academic rigour, reflexivity and comprehensibility across field sites, cultures and contexts. This complicates the issue of how to do robust team ethnography. In this links@keele talk, Professor Lisa Dikomitis and Dr Brianne Wenning will explore what team ethnography is, why it is being increasingly used in health and global health projects and how it may look in practice. They will draw upon their experience of establishing and conducting team ethnography in the multi-country NIHR-funded ECLIPSE project (co-led by anthropologist Professor Lisa Dikomitis and parasitologist, Dr Helen Price) with teams in Brazil, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka and the UK.

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