Notes from the waiting room: seeking research access to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)

Ruddock, Anna (2017) Notes from the waiting room: seeking research access to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Field Research Methods Lab Blog (16 Jun 2017). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Discussing the ethnography of public institutions, Didier Fassin (2013: 642) has described its dual ability to ‘interrogate the obvious’ and ‘illuminate the unknown’. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), a large public teaching hospital in Delhi, represents both of these conditions. This made it an enticing site for my PhD research, but also one that proved particularly challenging to access. While everything hinged on the crucial letter of official permission that was eventually written by the dean of research, personalities and the establishment of rapport…were central to the negotiation of the institutional labyrinth, writes Anna Ruddock.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/fieldresearch/
Additional Information:	© 2017 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Date Deposited:	16 Jan 2025 15:24
Last Modified:	16 Jan 2025 15:24
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126706

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