Student-led Training

Compassion science offers a promising new framework for social science researchers navigating emotionally-demanding fieldwork. Join us as we explore embodied, evidence-based techniques for cultivating compassion in an interview setting. You’ll come away with an in-depth, interdisciplinary understanding of compassion and its pertinence for the social sciences, plus concrete tools for methodological application.

Fieldwork can be fraught with challenges to researchers’ mental health and emotional wellbeing.  Reflexivity is an increasingly common practice for researchers considering the impact their…