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We wanted to work with
families, in the UK and in India,

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in very different
economic circumstances,

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in rural and urban areas.

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But rather than starting with,
as people often do, with the UK,

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with the affluent
minority world as the norm,

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and the global
south as the other,

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we wanted to turn
that on its head.

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So the collaboration
with Young Lives,

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learning about their
methodological approach,

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learning about the contexts in
which they were researching,

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doing really close narrative
work with the eight family case

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studies, and discussing what
we were learning with the Young

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Lives researchers
all the way through,

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meant that we started
our project, by thinking

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about childhood and family
life in an Indian context.

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And then, taking that
secondary analysis

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into new pilot work for the
new data collection, which

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we carried out in India
first, again with UK

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and Indian researchers
working side by side,

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sitting side by side,
talking to families.

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And then we went back and
did piloting in the UK,

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then we did fieldwork
in India, and then

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we went back and did
fieldwork in England.

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And then, of course, we
came together as well

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for the analysis of the
new data collection.

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And I guess there are two
things that are really

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crucial to highlight.

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One is that we wrote and
funded time for Young Lives

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Researchers into the family
lives and environments project.

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So the time that we needed
for the contextualisation,

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to sit and read through
their data gathering reports,

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to discuss with them
how we would sample,

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from their big data set, how
we would choose just eight

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families to focus on, that
time, that support was

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written into the work and we had
formal data sharing agreements.

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In very practical
terms, what we did

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was they provided secure
space on their server,

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password protected access,
on their secure server,

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so that we could log in
to access the interview

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material and so on.

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I think one of the key
administrative challenges

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that we faced, through the
project working in India

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and the UK, was actually
about, I suppose,

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an administrative aspect of
the project that you often

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don't give terribly
much thought to,

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possibly I hadn't given
enough thought to, beforehand.

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Which was that, because we
were very carefully working

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with this collaborative
process, with UK

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researchers and
Indian researchers

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carrying out the new data
collection together, in India,

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interviews were conducted
in two languages.

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And that created real
challenges for transcription,

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because Telugu transcribers
wouldn't necessarily

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be comfortable transcribing
English. And Telugu

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transcribers
wouldn't necessarily

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have sufficient
English to translate

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the Telugu into English.

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And we wanted to
have both, because we

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wanted to think about--

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translatability was one of
our central methodological

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interests, and we've written
a bit about that as well.

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But what that meant is that
actually the transcription

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process had multiple components.

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So we had the Telugu
transcribed, then

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we had the Telugu
translated into English,

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and then we had the
English transcribed

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into the translated transcripts.

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So we had multiple versions.

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And that meant, as
you can imagine,

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that took three times longer
than normal transcription

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would.