Dear colleagues, Happy New Year! This online methods course, delivered by myself and Dr Xianan Jin for KOMEX Methods Excellence Workshops at the University of Konstanz, may be of interest to PhD students and early career researchers doing qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork in authoritarian, post-conflict, highly surveilled or otherwise insecure contexts: https://afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcredential-ekomex-doing-fieldwork-challenging-contexts The early bird registration fee can be obtained until 19th January. Any questions, do get in touch. All best wishes, Catherine Dr Catherine Owen<https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/24315-catherine-owen> Associate Professor of International Relations Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cornwall Co-Director, Exeter Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies<https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/eceees/>, University of Exeter ---------- Latest publications: Why Public Administration Needs Area Studies: A Call for More Ethnographies of New Developmentalist Bureaucracies<https://areastudies.iias.tsinghua.edu.cn/EN/Y2025/V37/I6/139> (in Chinese, trans. Shujian Wang), Area Studies, 2025. with Beverley Loke, "Hierarchies and Contexts in International Relations Knowledge Production" in Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics: A Handbook<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/knowledge-and-expertise-in-international-politics-9780192871145?cc=gb&lang=en&>, edited by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara et al (Oxford University Press, 2025). with Licia Cianetti and Gianni Del Panta, What is a Regime? Three Definitions and their Implications for the Future of Regime Studies<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2025.2483418>, Democratization, 2025.