title: Ethnography and staying in your own nest.
abstract: In a 2004 paper, Martin Johnson suggested that 'too many of us study our own students for reasons that can only be explained by excessive convenience'. Here, Deborah Roberts argues that studying a group of students known to the researcher is anything but convenient. Rather, it requires careful consideration and skill. She makes a case for more researchers to study their own students.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Salford, UK.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural / Q000458:organization & administration*; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D015982:Bias; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003625:Data Collection; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015402:Nursing Education Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011361:Professional Competence; D012107:Research Design; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*