 So in my research, I'm exploring children's everyday lives who are living in an urban slum in Bangladesh. The people who are living in this slum have their origin in the Indian state of Bihar, who moved to this part of the country a long time back. Because of their the historical and political background, the children and adults living in this slum are ethnically, linguistically, culturally and structurally marginalized. They experience violence which is embedded in their everyday lives. Often children, adults, they do not consider that as violence. In my research, I took an ethnographic approach and went to Bangladesh and spent nine months in the field and every day I went to the slum, used to spend long hours with children, walked with them, talked to them, played with them and visited their homes and that gave me a very rich insight about their perspectives and the way they experience their lives. I used a reflexive approach in my research where I was open and flexible to know and to learn from the children because they are the knowers. They know more about their lives than than me, of course. At the same time, I knew that I come from my academic background and my socio-cultural background and my professional background. I mean I come from a point of privilege and how to negotiate my position with the research participants was a challenge for me because of the ethnographic approach in the research that gave me enough time to actually talk to them and unfold many questions that both of us had. The Open University is an excellent place to do the PhD. The supervisory team and the other academics in the OU are extreme source of support and also the support that I received for doing my long-term data collection and also attending a number of conferences. I think all these really added value to what I'm doing now. The experience of doing this research has transformed me. I used to understand children's lives from a normative perspective. I think I have learned to know the nuances of the everyday lives and the complexities that they experience in their lives. The resilience that children have even when they are living in these difficult situations and the way they express their strength and power even within the constraints amazed me and I think that is something what I will always carry with me even when I'm done with this thesis.