Research into Japanese society

Reflections from three projects involving students as researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-3-900362-33-1
Verlag: Universität Wien Abteilung für Japanologie des Instituts für Ostasienwissenschaften

Buch, Englisch, Band 50, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

Reihe: Beiträge zur Japanologie

This volume collects three group projects from Sophia University, University of Vienna and FU Berlin that involve students as researchers at different stages in their academic lives. In all three cases, students actively participated in gathering data for a group project and reflected on their experiences. We emphasise that students, rather than being mere receivers of knowledge, may also actively contribute to academic research and be part of the collaborative production of knowledge. Further, we show how research as a team has to be adjusted, but nevertheless can be conducted despite the troubling circumstances of the pandemic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Polak-Rottmann, Sebastian

Miserka, Antonia

Über Autor(innen)

Antonia Miserka is a PhD student at the Department of East Asian Studies at the Uni­versity of Vienna. Her research focusses on rural regions in contem­porary Japan, specifically the every-day lives of locals and newcom­ers within the Aso region in Kumamoto, Japan. In her PhD thesis she analyses the connection between social relationships, regional land­scape and well-being of residents of the Aso region.

Sebastian Polak-Rottmann is senior research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Stud­ies (DIJ). He received his PhD from the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna in 2022, working on well-being in rural Japan funded by a DOC-team grant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His current research focuses on resilience in rural Japan, including community integrated care and political participation. To­gether with Hanno Jentzsch, he organised the Aso Winter Field School 2022, an online field school for undergraduate and graduate students on the impacts of the pandemic in rural Japan.