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Dr Helen Kara has been an independent researcher since 1999 and writes and teaches on research methods. She is the author of Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide (Policy Press, 2020 (2nd edn)). She is not, and never has been, an academic, though she has learned to speak the language. In 2015 Helen was the first fully independent researcher to be conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Her latest book is Qualitative Research for Quantitative Researchers (SAGE, 2022).
Current research areas:
Co-produced grant-giving with disabled people - client: Trust for London
Recent scholarly activity:
Teaching creative research methods, radical research ethics, and creative academic writing at universities and HEIs around the world
Recent publications:
Latest book: Qualitative Research for Quantitative Researchers (SAGE 2022)
Latest article: Grant A and Kara H (2021) Considering the Autistic advantage in qualitative research: the strengths of Autistic researchers. Contemporary Social Science 16(5) 589-603. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2021.1998589
Other activities:
Working as an ethics expert for the European Commission: sitting on panels reviewing the ethical aspects of grant applications, sitting on panels checking the ethics work of funded projects, working as an independent ethics adviser to funded projects