How to Prepare for Fieldwork in Different *and maybe Difficult* Contexts

I identify as a qualitative business and management researcher, who occasionally also likes and experiments with other quantitative and mixed methods (thanks to mostly my co-authors). I completed my PhD training in the UK and masters across Europe, conducted all the interviews I ever needed in these contexts. Until recently, I thought that my PhD training together with many readings on how to do qualitative research, ethnographic research, interviews and specifically semi-structured interviews, I was prepared for doing interviews in…