The Qualitative and Fieldwork Working Group (Qualifie) is a knowledge exchange and community hub for researchers, fellows and faculty members with an interest in fieldwork, ethnography, interviewing, and qualitative methodology more broadly. We are part of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence.
Qualifie understands itself as a student-led training and learning initiative. It is designed as a reading and discussion group as well as a networking forum for anyone interested in implementing qualitative methodology.
The Qualitative and Fieldwork Working Group is organised by Mariusz Bogacki, Anna Reißig, Carlotta Rudolph, Zuzanna Samson and Nora Söderberg.It is sponsored by Professor Jeffrey Checkel. Qualifie thanks SPS Professor and Swiss Co-Chair Stefano Guzzini for his generous financial support of our activities.
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Academic Year 2025/26
- November 27th 2025 | 11:00-12:30 CEST | SPS Meeting Room in Villa San Felice Post –Fieldwork Debriefing Space Launch Meeting in collaboration with senior researchers, post-docs and faculty from the Migration Policy Center
- December 11th 2025 | 14:00-15:30 CEST | Online
Entangling Methods: Transdisciplinary and Critical Approaches to Datafication and Security with Prof. Claudia Aradau (King’s College, London)
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- February 4th 2026 | 15:00-16:30 CEST | Sala del Capitolo (Badia) & Zoom
Victimhood, care and narration:A conversation with Roxani Krystalli (University of St Andrews)
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