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How Covid-19 is affecting mental health and what we can do about it?

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How Covid-19 is affecting mental health worldwide? The Covid-19 pandemic has affected 135,646,617 people and caused 2,930,732 confirmed deaths (as of 11th April 2021) all over the world. Apart from the financial, physical, and physiological burden, the Covid-19 has one subtle effect, its effect on mental health and wellbeing. World Health Organization argued that the Covid-19 […]

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Understanding Qualitative Research: Brief Discussion on Critical Discourse Analysis

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Language is much more than just ‘means of communication’. It is a “medium of domination and social force; it serves to legitimize relations of organized power” (Habermas, 1977: 259 cited in Wodak and Meyer, 2001). And discourse is “a set of statements which construct an object” (Parker, 1992). According to Brown and

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The Art of Defocused Life

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Probably I should begin with a context of what I am trying to express. Consider a common scenario: A student is attending a class in which a professor is giving a lecture. At the same time, he is checking his social media feeds, giving attention to the pretty peer sitting beside him, thinking

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Gone the days of Verbatim Transcription in Mixed Method Research?

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Background Verbatim Transcription is probably one of the most labor-intensive activities in research and surprisingly it does not often require any research-specific skillset; rather it requires clerical skills. No matter how interesting and thought-provoking the interview is, creating a verbatim transcription out of it is always monotonous. On top of that, most

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