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Dr. David Calvey is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). Prior to working at MMU, he held teaching and research positions at the University of Manchester, Liverpool John Moores University, The Open University, and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Queensland. His publications and research interests span ethnography, covert research, humour studies, martial arts, ethnomethodology, organizational creativity, private security, and the night-time economy. He is a member of the British Sociological Association (BSA) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). His recent book is Covert Research: The Art, Politics and Ethics of Undercover Fieldwork (2017), SAGE.
David Calvey demonstrates that covert research is not an aberrant research method but a substantial analytical tradition in sociology and neighbouring disciplines that has long yielded significant insights into social life. This timely volume will give social scientists a pause for thought.
-- Greg Smith
Covert research has a long and distinguished tradition, and here David Calvey offers us an illuminating journey through the history and genealogy of hidden, discreet and undercover forms of social inquiry. Moving beyond the crude and simplifying dismissals of the ‘ethical textbook’, Calvey makes a compelling case for covert research and its ongoing relevance to the contemporary world. From Nellie Bly to the Tearoom Trade, from Garfinkel and Milgram to Calvey’s own undercover work on the nightclub door, this book provides a rich array of examples and exercises, making it a must-have book for any student of covert – and overt – research methodologies. By setting out to relieve us of our ethical hypochondria and fetish for informed consent, Calvey ventures out figuratively – and literally – into a scholarly field where others fear to tread.
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