Author: Finley

Dr Booth’s research on wedding bands in India and Pakistan is significant to me because it shows that a researcher cannot predetermine the findings of their study, but that does not necessarily remove its value. The procession...

Dr Thomsen’s seminar showed me that research, regardless of its specificity, does not exist in a vacuum. Initially, his research on the sexual identity of Korean men living in Seattle seemed abstract to me, in grounding his...

In reflecting on this seminar, I was drawn to the ideas of Dr Tiatia-Seath as researchers being leaders who serve. This idea was illustrated by a Samoan proverb she shared with us ‘to be a leader one must serve.’ Although the...