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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy
Episode: Colette Einfeld and Helen Sullivan, "How to Conduct Interpretive Research: Insights for Students and Researchers" (Edward Elgar, 2025)
Description: What happens when an academic supervisor and their former student get together to write and edit a book on researching our social world? In How to Conduct Interpretive Research: Insights for Students and Researchers (Edward Elgar, 2025) readers have an answer to this question from two writers working by interpretivist lights: one, Colette Einfeld, an emerging new talent; the other, Helen Sullivan, a renowned public policy professor. On this the 26th episode of New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science, they discuss the motivations for the book, the various meanings of interpretive research for them and their contributors, messiness and e...