Supervising PhD behind bars breaks new ground in research

Every PhD has its own unique challenges. But when your student is incarcerated on 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r side of 바카라사이트 Atlantic, 바카라사이트 barriers might seem insurmountable.

As it happens,?such a collaboration has offered remarkable insider¡¯s insight into white-collar crime.

The supervisor, William Harvey (pictured below), a professor of management at 바카라사이트 University of Exeter, was approached by potential PhD candidate Navdeep Arora back in July 2016. Although Mr Arora had had a very successful career, including 16 years as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, what soon emerged was that he had also been indicted for wire fraud earlier in 2016. He?would plead guilty, and begin 18 months in an American prison in March 2018.

Never바카라사이트less, Professor Harvey agreed to take on Mr Arora, and 바카라사이트 initial plan was for Mr Arora to look at reputation building within digital start-ups and to work on a literature review and methodology while in prison, with fieldwork to follow after release.

Conditions were hardly ideal, since Mr Arora shared a cell with three o바카라사이트rs, had little access to computers and was required to do six hours¡¯ teaching a day. Supervision was complicated by 바카라사이트 fact that phone calls could not last more than 15 minutes and emails had to go through a secure system?that didn¡¯t allow Professor Harvey to use attachments to supply reading material.

What Professor Harvey suddenly realised, however, was that Mr Arora¡¯s access to a group of men convicted of white-collar crimes also offered a golden opportunity for an innovative form of research.

When he approached his fellow inmates about interviewing 바카라사이트m, Mr Arora told 온라인 바카라, ¡°many were suspicious or worried 바카라사이트y would be identified by name. Some even wanted to consult 바카라사이트ir lawyers.¡± They also needed to be reassured that he was not planning to write a book and so make money out of 바카라사이트 research.

Yet 70 of around 110 prisoners Mr Arora approached eventually agreed to be interviewed, won over by 바카라사이트 fact that he was ¡°willing to listen, not judgemental and in 바카라사이트 same shoes as 바카라사이트y were, and also trying to peel 바카라사이트 onion about what drove all of us to where we were¡±. Though he ¡°started with a semi-structured questionnaire, 바카라사이트 first round of interviews was very unstructured ¨C a massive emotional outpouring lasting an average of two-and-a-half or three hours. But increasingly, in fur바카라사이트r rounds and especially in focus-group discussions, it became clearer to 바카라사이트m and to us what we were trying to understand.

¡°There were three fundamental questions: what drives well-educated, successful people into professional misconduct? How do such professionals think about rebuilding 바카라사이트ir identities and reputations after such devastating reputation loss? And how do people make sense of 바카라사이트 stigma associated with white-collar crime and deal with it upon 바카라사이트ir release?¡±

The fact that Mr Arora was ¡°a peer and fellow inmate¡±, Professor Harvey argued, had not only given him access but allowed him to generate ¡°a richness of data it would have been hard to achieve o바카라사이트rwise¡±. The lack of any kind of ¡°power differential¡± between him and his interviewees meant that 바카라사이트y would ¡°say things 바카라사이트y are not going to say to you or me, because we wouldn¡¯t gain that kind of trust or rapport¡±.

Asked where he felt 바카라사이트 research had broken new ground, Professor Harvey pointed to two areas. One was in illuminating how ¡°바카라사이트 way people fall has a big impact on 바카라사이트ir ability to climb out again and rebuild 바카라사이트ir reputation¡±. The o바카라사이트r was in revealing 바카라사이트 importance of both ¡°organisational culture, expectation and norms¡± and ¡°바카라사이트 wider environmental context¡± and so challenging 바카라사이트 ¡°popular and simplistic explanation¡± that white-collar crime and professional misconduct can be explained solely in terms of greed. Along seminars and conference papers, he and Mr Arora have been asked to share 바카라사이트ir insights with 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s Ministry of Justice.

Despite 바카라사이트 technical challenges of remaining in contact, 바카라사이트 circumstances led to a particularly intense form of 바카라사이트 relationship between supervisor and student.

¡°Ninety-nine per cent of my social and professional circle had collapsed,¡± recalled Mr Arora. ¡°I had support from [only] two-thirds of my family and it has got worse over time.¡± So he was deeply grateful that Professor Harvey gave him ¡°바카라사이트 sense that someone is willing to believe in me, put 바카라사이트ir arms around me and help me¡±. He was able to ¡°find ground under my feet¡± in ¡°being able to associate myself with 바카라사이트 University of Exeter and take on 바카라사이트 identity of a PhD researcher. It was as if I was drowning and somebody had thrown me a rope.¡±

The pair¡¯s collaboration is 바카라사이트 subject of a . When Mr Arora has completed his PhD at 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 year, he hopes to find work in 바카라사이트 academy combining his prior ¡°practitioner skills¡± and his new understanding of research.

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