This month, we sit down with Dr. Kathy Dodworth to discuss emotional expression in research. We explore various types of emotional expression; which emotions are often seen as are welcome or unwelcome, accepted or unacceptable; how to navigate emotionally taxing subject material; and the emotional toll that such fieldwork takes on researchers and their collaborators. Kathy is a Wellcome Trust research fellow at the University of Edinburgh's centre for African studies and her current fellowship critically reviews contemporary community health work in Kenya. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2018 and subsequently won the school's Oustanding Thesis award for her thesis-'Legitimation as practice: Crafting space to govern in Tanzania'. Before academia, Kathy worked for several INGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa on education and health and is also a published author having written the book ' Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Everyday Authority in Tanzania' out with Cambridge University Press. RESOURCES: Dodworth, K. (2022) Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Everyday Authority in Tanzania, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. If you enjoyed this episode, please rate and review! Follow us on social media (@gowithbedo) and subscribe to BeDo’s quarterly newsletter for exclusive news about upcoming episodes and events. Is there a topic you'd like to see covered? Know someone we should talk to? Get in touch at [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you.