Research field notes template

I have not yet started using digital media in my fieldnotes, although I am interested in how this works. A recent issue of Popular Anthropology Magazine Vol 4, No 1, has a section dedicated to blogging fieldnotes. I am always keen to hear about how others take fieldnotes.

What is your process? I am an anthropologist and musician based in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. I currently teach cultural anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington.

My research interests include the anthropology of hope, NGOs and development, music and other creative practices, how people relate to the future, children and youth, gender relations, and agency.

These interests and have taken me to India and Papua New Guinea among other places. View all posts by lorenagibson. Thank you for these observations. I have little experience in ethnography but am embarking on some qualitative research my work for a charitable nonprofit organization. Your notes here have been very useful. Thank you! I am halfways in my process of doing fieldwork for my masters. I want to ask you if it would be possible to see one fieldnote of you?

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Skip to content. About this blog Publications. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Tagged fieldwork research. Published by lorenagibson. Published August 14, August 14, Field notes are not only used by students but by several professions that need recorded observations for their case studies. These notes are for qualitative research whose data and results are not just recorded on a quantitative basis but also by qualitative basis. Field notes are necessary where keen observation skills are needed to record instances visually and recorded in writing before these can be collated into collective data in a computer system.

Field notes can be used in most fields of discipline where hard, raw data needs to be collected such as the fields of geography, archaeology, social sciences, and the scientific fields of biology and marine biology. This was mostly evident during the study of Amazonian tribes in Brazil where a couple of previously undiscovered tribes were the subjects of intense studies during the 60s up to as recently as the present time.

We also have Progress Note Samples that have several examples with different setups that users may be familiar with. To be thoroughly effective, a field note must contain the dates, time, and place of observation. On the main body of your field note, specific facts, numbers, and details of the site should be written down based on your objective observation.