I saw your pattern because people were talking about sewing masks, but honestly the accompanying sociology research is cool as hell, and I'm really looking forward to whatever of your developing work you share on tumblr. I'm also a social science PhD student, and I really hope you can get, like, what, retroactive IRB clearance to include this in your dissertation.
Thanks! Normally my honours thesis would have been put online through the university, but they did some school structure changes in the last couple of years and they are still trying to sort out what is going where in the archives now that Sociology is with the humanities now. I am aiming to get a version of it published in Transformative Works and Cultures, which is open access, but that might be getting pushed back what with everything that is going on.
As for ethics clearance, who knows? I had to jump through all sorts of hoops for honours because my research technically involved asking people to confess to what could potentially be crimes (although once you dive a bit deeper, the only one that is definitively illegal is the scanning and either uploading or reprinting of a digital or physical pattern in such a way that it deprives the author of potential income). Also, because I had respondents from all over the world my research was double-high-risk, because the uni worries abut that sort of thing. I have no idea how they would feel about this sort of thing.
