Gilbert meets with Dr Daniel Clarke of the University of Dundee School of Business. Dr Clarke is an ethnographic researcher in the field of management and marketing whose unconventional work incorporates autoethnographic explorations of his own experience of bereavement and loss and techniques such as research poetry. The conversation encompasses questions of the material process of getting to grips with writing,  the challenge of putting one's own life experiences into research, nurturing writing in postgraduate researchers and the importance of taking the plunge and trying out new things. 

If you found the content of this podcast interesting, here are some further resources you may wish to check out, including papers mentioned in the discussion. 

Clarke, D.W., 2017. Fighting against forgetting: Remembering the places where my relationship with my father came into being. Qualitative Inquiry, 23(6), pp.473-477.

Clarke, D.W., 2018. Understanding event sport tourism experiences of support partners: A research note. Leisure Sciences, 40(5), pp.466-475

Clarke, D.W., 2018, May. On the (Im) possibility and Bliss of Telling My Dad," I Love You". In Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research (Vol. 19, No. 2).

Clarke, D.W., 2020, May. First my dad, then my iPhone: An autoethnographic sketch of digital death. In Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research (Vol. 21, No. 2).

Cloutier, C., 2016. How I write: An inquiry into the writing practices of academics. Journal of Management Inquiry, 25(1), pp.69-84.

Pelias, R.J., 2004. A methodology of the heart: Evoking academic and daily life (Vol. 15). Rowman Altamira.

Purnell, D. and Clarke, D.W., 2019. Finding Our Fathers. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(9-10), pp.907-914.

Soler, G., Purnell, D.F. and Clarke, D.W., 2020. Facing Father Absences and Troubling Memories of Our Fathers. International Review of Qualitative Research, p.1-23.

And a shout out to Daniel's forthcoming book! 

Clarke, D., Ellis, V., Patrick-Thomson, H. and Weir, D. Researching Craft Beer: Understanding Production, Community and Culture in an Evolving Sector. forthcoming, Emerald Publishing 2021.