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Slaughterhouse workers, bullfighters, and cockfighters in Ecuador: paradoxical moral and affective action on non-human animals Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Juan José Ponce León, Ivan Darío Ávila Gaitán
The process of killing non-human animals demands certain psychosocial, affective, and moral processes. In the case of so-called ‘death-saturated environments’, psychic numbing and systematic desens...
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Out of sight, out of mind: how pescetarians manage dissonance by creating distance Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Maja Cullen, Devon Docherty, Carol Jasper
For many, there exists a cognitive inconsistency between the practice of eating non-human animals and the belief that animals are morally relevant. This juxtaposition has fittingly been described a...
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“What are you doing to me?”: animal agency during interviews with Australian trans young people and their animal companions Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Damien W. Riggs, Heather Fraser, Nik Taylor, Shoshana Rosenberg
Too often when we think about agency, we think only about human actors. Increasingly, studies of animal-human relationships have explored the agency of animals who live alongside humans. This paper...
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Children’s perceptions of animals in animal assisted interventions: a thematic synthesis Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Laura M Peterson, Jennifer M. Putney
There is growing interest in the animal assisted intervention (AAI) field to identify how participants benefit from their interaction with animals in these services. Although children frequently pa...
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What is the place of interpretation in text analysis? An example using ALCESTE® software Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 L. Montalescot, K. Lamore, C. Flahault, A. Untas
Statistical text analyses appear at the borderline of quantitative and qualitative research, raising epistemological questions in the field. This paper focuses on a specific method of text analysis...
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Qualitative methods and practices in transcultural research with forced migrants: the Asylum Seekers Photographic Interview (ASPI) methodological protocol Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Francesca Tessitore, Giorgia Margherita
The present study aims to describe the methodological procedures which led to the development of the ASPI, a photo-elicitation method aimed at exploring the life stories of Nigerian asylum seekers....
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More or less than human? Evaluating the role of AI-as-participant in online qualitative research Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Alexandra F. Gibson, Alexander Beattie
Artificial intelligence (AI) has an increasing presence in scholarship, posing new challenges and opportunities for qualitative researchers. Generative AI, such as Chat-GPT, can supposedly produce ...
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Autoethnography as an ethically contested terrain: some thinking points for consideration Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Andrew C. Sparkes
In this article, I select items from various lists of published ethical guidelines for autoethnographers and use them as starting points prior to subjecting each to interrogation. This interrogatio...
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Body mapping Refugees and asylum seekers’ perspectives of embodied trauma: an innovative method for psychotraumatology research & practice Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Charlotte O’Brien, Divine Charura
With the population of displaced individuals reaching over 25 million people worldwide, exacerbated by recent humanitarian emergencies there is an urgent need to rapidly assess manifestations of tr...
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Employability narratives in digital storytelling: do overqualified Brazilian and Venezuelan immigrants in Portugal tell the same story? Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Paulo Nascimento, Magda Sofia Roberto, Maria Lemos, Maria Caetana Poole-da-Costa, Ana Sofia Santos
Migration has been steadily increasing worldwide, bringing with it precarious work conditions and the issue of overqualification, having repercussions on job satisfaction and the mental health of m...
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Missing people and fragmented stories: painting holistic pictures through Single Pen Portrait Analysis (SPPA) Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Peter Blundell, Lisa Oakley
A pen portrait is an analytical technique for analysing, condensing, and depicting qualitative data from participants that can also incorporate themes or patterns. A review of the use of pen portra...
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‘Talk amongst yourselves’: designing and evaluating a novel remotely-moderated focus group methodology for exploring group talk Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Annayah M.B. Prosser, Lois N.M. Heung, Leda Blackwood, Saffron O’Neill, Jan Willem Bolderdijk, Tim Kurz
The use of a moderator has become ubiquitous when using focus groups for social science research. While a skilled moderator can facilitate discussion, we argue that, in some instances, moderators c...
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The geopolitics of knowledge production, or how to inhabit a contradiction: introduction to the special issue on the narrative productions methodology Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Giazú Enciso Domínguez, Álvaro Ramírez-March, Marisela Montenegro
The Narrative Productions Methodology (NPM) is a narrative methodology that draws inspiration from Donna Haraway’s notion of situated knowledges. This Special Issue (SI) marks the 20th anniversary ...
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An affective reading on narrative productions methodology. Narrative as a body Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Giazú Enciso Domínguez
From an affective perspective, this work discusses how a Narrative (N), which results from the narrative production methodologies (NPM), can be considered a body. We briefly explain what NPM is, it...
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An interactional analysis of Muslim women resisting discourses of othering through humour: an autoethnographic reflection of a critical micro-analytic approach Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Hanain Brohi
This paper considers the application of a micro-analytic approach to critically explore how a Muslim women’s Sister’s Circle (SC), based at a British university, interactionally resists discourses ...
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Workable ranges model: a map and method for ‘drawing out’ embodied knowing Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Sally Rose, Anna Madill
ABSTRACT We introduce the Workable Ranges Model (WRM) as a visual map and method for enacting and exploring embodied knowing about stress and emotion regulation. The WRM portrays three core psychophysical states in spatial form. Optimal and flexible regulated states are positioned centrally between two lines representing thresholds of tolerance beyond which are hyperarousal above and hypoarousal below
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“Holders of knowledge are communities, not academic institutions”: lessons from involving minoritised older people as co-researchers in a study of loneliness in later life Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Natalie Cotterell, Tine Buffel
A growing body of work suggests that co-research with older adults contributes to a better understanding of later experienced health and social problems. Yet, few studies have involved minoritised ...
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Drawing wisdom from the Pacific: A Tongan participative approach to exploring and addressing family violence Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Sesimani Havea, Siautu Alefaio-Tugia, Darrin Hodgetts
ABSTRACT The development of qualitative research approaches that are embedded within a Tongan worldview and associated relational practices is pivotal to enhancing knowledge of, and culturally-informed responses to violence within the Tongan kainga (family). We are currently in the early stages of such developments. This reflexive methodological article draws conceptual insights and cultural concepts
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Membership categorization analysis, race, and racism Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Natasha Shrikant, Rahul Sambaraju
ABSTRACT Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA) has the potential to highlight the dynamic ways that people make race relevant to everyday life. However, existing MCA research conducts analyses that are disconnected from the broader sociopolitical contexts within which race categories are developed and used. This article proposes an extension MCA that foregrounds ways that racial category use mobilizes
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Critical discursive psychology and visual displays of gender Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Keiko M. McCullough
ABSTRACT The growing presence of everyday visual materials, such as social media images and videos, raises new questions around the ways in which identities are made visible in contemporary contexts. ‘Visually informed’ critical discursive psychology can be productively leveraged to analyze the diverse intersections of visuality and gender in daily life. To guide future inquiries in this domain, a
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“You think that, again, that’s the medication”: reflecting on qualitative methods for interviewing family members of violent and impulsive men in an intervention trial Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Eden Thain
ABSTRACT Qualitative research in psychology can often maintain standards and assumptions from positivistic and experimental methodologies. Sometimes these issues are well argued against or around logically in literature, often abstractly, but cases of methodological consideration with real cases are rarer. This discussion aims to help methodological reflection and learning by presenting a case of multiple
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How are interpretive methods feminist and queer? Four discursive methods for studying marginality Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 S.L. Crawley, Olga Plakhotnik
ABSTRACT What is a queer feminist method? Both feminists and queer scholars attend to the issue of power, but in somewhat divergent ways. Feminist scholars focus social justice concerns on modernist notions of experience and agency within systems of inequalities, while queer theorists shun a modernist notion of rational actors and focus on the poststructuralist goal of demonstrating the organizing
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The world café is an unmethod within co-produced research Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Javier Monforte, Jake Netherway, Brett Smith
ABSTRACT The world café (WC) has gained popularity as a participatory method for collecting qualitative data. In this article, we present an instrumental case study -the Moving Social Work cafés- to illuminate why and how the WC might be applied within co-produced research. Our principal argument is that the WC constitutes a coherent and effective means for living up to the principles and values of
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Probing in qualitative research interviews: Theory and practice Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Oliver C. Robinson
ABSTRACT The effective use of probing in research interviews is central to eliciting rich, deep data from participants. Probing achieves access to this extra level of detail and depth via verbal prompts to clarify, elaborate, illustrate or explain a prior answer to an interview question that the participant has already given. This article presents a four-part theoretical framework of narrative theory
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The art of not being neutral in qualitative research Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Henrik Skovlund, Line Lerche Mørck, Martin Celosse-Andersen
ABSTRACT This article is a contribution to the ongoing dispute about ethical and methodological standards of neutrality within qualitative research. By invoking the notions of friendship-based research and situated ethics, we discuss important ethical dilemmas that can arise in research processes when informant and researcher develop friendship-like relations. We consider the benefits and drawbacks
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The promise of agency in the narrative productions methodology. Thinking through decolonial feminisms Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Núria Sadurní-Balcells
The Narrative Productions Methodology (NPM) is a methodological tool grounded in feminist epistemologies, particularly in situated knowledges. In the NPM, a Narrative is co-created between research...
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Chronotopic diffraction: an analytical device for narrative production methodology applied to ‘adjustment to disability’ Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Laura Sanmiquel-Molinero
This article advances an analytical device in the field of Narrative Production Methodology (NPM) called ‘Chronotopic Diffraction’ (CD) by presenting partial results of an ongoing research project ...
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“It is like the king and his kingdom”: mapping constellations via the model of the agonistic self methodology (MAS-M) Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Sanja Grbić, Vladimir Džinović, Dragan Vesić
ABSTRACT Building on the Dialogical Self Theory (DST) and the Model of Agonistic Self (MAS), this paper introduces the Model of Agonistic Self Methodology (MAS-M). This approach employs constellations as the interpretative framework for the qualitative analysis of data on the self-in-context. Constellations are defined as wider patterns of interactions between voices which follow specific and repetitive
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Narrative and play-based interviewing - a framework for eliciting the perspectives of young children Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Patricia DeCosta, Timothy C. Skinner, Jette Led Sørensen, Martha Krogh Topperzer, Dan Grabowski
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to provide researchers a detailed framework for conducting high-quality research with young children 3–6 years of age. We argue that young children’s insider perspectives, perceptions and experiences are underrepresented in research owing to methodological challenges. In this article, we present a narrative and play-based approach to eliciting the perspectives of
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Rethinking the dialogical dimension of narrative productions beyond co-construction: unveiling the role of disagreement, contradictions, and dispute Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Nicolás Schöngut-Grollmus, Antonia Larrain, Javiera Navarro Marshall, María-Alejandra Energici
Narrative productions methodology (NPM) constitutes a social research technique that, within feminist epistemologies and, in particular, Haraway’s situated knowledge, seeks to produce partial knowl...
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The methodological and epistemic narrative of narrative productions Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Joan Pujol-Tarrés
ABSTRACT The empiricism underlying the research techniques developed in the context of the discursive turn of the late 1980s opened up various polemics during the 1990s on the practice of critical research. This effervescence led in the 2000s to the development and consolidation of Narrative Production Methodology as a qualitative research technique in the Catalan academic and activist context. Its
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Critical realism and qualitative research in psychology Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Martin E. H. Willis
ABSTRACT Qualitative researchers wishing to circumnavigate the limitations of positivism, on the one hand, and strong constructionism, on the other, tend to be attracted to critical realism (CR), which offers a middle ground between the two: CR combines ontological realism and epistemological relativism. As a philosophical position for qualitative research, CR has been adopted by researchers utilising
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Narrative productions of memory: reflections on collective memories as knowledge about the past Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Catalina Álvarez, Isabel Piper Shafir
This article proposes the Narrative Production Methodology (NPM) as a suitable methodology in the field of critical collective memory studies. Firstly, we discuss the narrative dimension of collect...
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The embodied musicality of hetero-cisgender violence: an analysis strategy to study mental health problems from a narrative-dialogic perspective Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Sebastián Collado, Jaime Barrientos, Marcela Ruiz Zúñiga
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a narrative-dialogic analysis strategy to study the relationship between gender/sex identity and mental health problems in the context of heteronormativity. This strategy is called listening to the embodied musicality of hetero-cisgender violence. Inspired by a narrative-dialogic theory of gender/sex identity development and applying methodological tools from dialogic and
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A methodological proposal from situated knowledge epistemology: Narrative Productions Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Marisela Montenegro, Marcel Balasch, Joan Pujol
The Narrative Productions’ Methodology emerges from Haraway’s epistemological and political concept of “situated knowledges”. According to this perspective, all knowledge emerges from semiotic and ...
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Using reproductive justice as a theoretical lens in qualitative research in psychology Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Tracy Morison
ABSTRACT Reproductive Justice has become somewhat of a buzzword, inspiring qualitative research on a range of sexual and reproductive issues. However, uptake in psychology has been somewhat slow, in part due to the absence of well-defined methodology and rigorous methods for applying a Reproductive Justice framework. Psychology research claiming a Reproductive Justice approach often lacks specificity
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Feeling at home in an experiential research group: reflections on the research process in collaborative pluralism Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-11 B. Ahmed, J. Challenor, M. Gerada, M. Lavie Ajayi, Aylish O’Driscoll, C. Willig, V. Eatough
ABSTRACT This paper presents a set of reflections on the process of conducting a qualitative pluralistic group research project. As our work progressed, we began to spend as much time discussing this group work process as we did focusing on our specific research topic. We begin by giving some background to how we got started and the research study itself as well as saying something about who the group
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Toward a trauma-informed qualitative research approach: Guidelines for ensuring the safety and promoting the resilience of research participants Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Edward J. Alessi, Sarilee Kahn
ABSTRACT Qualitative researchers frequently conduct studies with individuals who have experienced various types of trauma, including those who have been historically marginalized and oppressed. However, in-depth discussions of how to conduct trauma-informed qualitative research do not exist. Thus, we lay the groundwork for a trauma-informed qualitative approach and then outline five guidelines for
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Producing commons through intermedial Narratives: embodied struggles of women in Chile and Colombia Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Lina Marcela Marín Moreno
In this article we reflect, based on an investigation of heterogeneous struggles embodied by women in Valparaíso-Chile and Medellín-Colombia, on the contribution of intermediality to the process of...
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Beyond talk and text: Visuality and critical discursive psychology Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Keiko M. McCullough, Jessica Nina Lester
ABSTRACT Given the centrality of the visual to modern day life, this article introduces a visually informed approach to critical discursive psychology that facilitates the study of visual materials. We argue that the visual is a site where the social world is actively built and maintained, similar to what has been reasoned more generally about language use, and that critical discursive psychology can
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Participatory thick descriptions: a collaborative and reflective approach Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Nicole Sankofa
ABSTRACT Thick descriptions, or densely textured facts, rely heavily on the articulated reflections of participants, however, there are few methodical approaches to thick description that maximize participant reflection for deeper and more meaningful descriptions. This article explores participatory methods of thick description for a collaborative, co-constructed meaning-making process between researchers
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Feminist listening and becoming: voice poems as a method of working with young women’s stories of domestic abuse in childhood Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Tanya Beetham
ABSTRACT This article presents reflections on using the listening guide, focusing on reflexive work with voice poems. It is based on research which explored the stories of ten young adult women who experienced parental domestic abuse in childhood. A dialogical theory is used to reflect on the process of working with three voice poems, showing that we engage with the material we work with in embodied
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Interpreting hidden meaning in qualitative research interview data: opportunities and challenges Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Gavin Ivey
ABSTRACT Hidden meaning, understood as relationally constituted unformulated or defended experience, presents both opportunities and challenges not adequately theorised and explored in the qualitative research literature. This paper outlines weaker and stronger forms of hiddenness and discusses the epistemological and methodological difficulties that hidden meaning presents. Many qualitative approaches
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Facilitation strategies for conducting focus groups attending to issues of power Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Mariah Kornbluh
ABSTRACT Focus groups are a common and popular qualitative research method within the field of psychology. While ample literature exists regarding designing, recruiting, and conducting focus groups, there is less research surrounding the facilitation techniques needed to solicit a data-rich, participatory, and authentic group dialogue while attending to power. Contributing to literature addressing
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Carrying stories: digital storytelling and the complexities of intimacy, relationality, and home spaces Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Andrea LaMarre, Carla Rice, May Friedman, Hannah Fowlie
ABSTRACT Over the past decade, we have worked alongside storytellers to bring their stories into the world. These encounters have been challenging, exciting, and intimate. In this paper, we reflect on a digital/multimedia storytelling project in which we engaged with people who have experienced weight stigma in fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood care. We use the metaphors of story midwifery and surrogacy
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‘Trust me, we can sort this out’: a theory-testing case study of the role of epistemic trust in fostering relationships Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-12 Eva A. Sprecher, Elizabeth Li, Michelle Sleed, Nick Midgley
ABSTRACT Novel psychological theories are often conceived in a general or heuristic form that can benefit from development and granulation through context-specific theory testing. Here, a theory-testing single case study methodology, adapted from an approach developed in the field of psychoanalysis, is presented. The study exemplifies this methodology though an interrogation of the explanatory value
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”Screaming isolation” when is a chair more than a chair? Photographic encounters, IPA and capturing out of awareness experiencing: A novel approach to working with temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Tara Morrey, Michael Larkin, Alison Rolfe
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the concept and analysis of photographic encounters which we utilised in an interview study to explore experiences of psychotherapy environments. Our study involves a dual perspective design (a sample of therapists, and a sample of clients). Interviews incorporating photographic encounters were transcribed, and then analysed with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
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The ethics of drug use research and ‘wild self-care’: a dialogue between a postgraduate student and their supervisor Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Simon Clay, Gareth J. Treharne
ABSTRACT This article outlines the experiences of a postgraduate student conducting research on drug use and ‘wild self-care’ in the format of a dialogue with their supervisor. There is a wealth of literature on the ethics of drug use research, the unique issues postgraduate students contend with during their tenure, researcher emotions in the field, and how self-care can be included in the research
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Intra-participant and inter-analyst cacophony: working the hyphen between modalities using provocative reflexivity Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 David A. Caicedo, Andrea Nikté Juarez Mendoza, Miguel Pinedo
ABSTRACT Multimodal psychological research highlights the benefit of using complementary approaches to the phenomenological study of lived experience. Rather than focus on any individual method, this study attempts to concentrate on the transition, or hyphen, between them, as a place for reflexivity, ethics, and theory. Participants were 14 adults, recruited from ‘New York Community College’ and ‘New
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Experienced qualitative researchers’ views on teaching students qualitative research design Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Emily Castell, Shannon Muir, Lynne D. Roberts, Peter Allen, Mortaza Rezae, Aneesh Krishna
ABSTRACT The increasing prominence of qualitative inquiry in psychological research has been accompanied by reflection on teaching and learning practices within undergraduate and postgraduate psychology courses. To date, there is limited empirical understanding of how experienced qualitative researchers approach teaching students about qualitative research design. The present study draws on interviews
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Navigating the messy swamp of qualitative research: Are generic reporting standards the answer? Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Victoria Clarke
Published in Qualitative Research in Psychology (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2022)
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On narrativity, knowledge production, and social change: a diffractive encounter between the Narrative Productions methodology and Participatory Action-Research Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-07 Álvaro Ramírez-March, Marisela Montenegro
In this article, we argue for an understanding of engaged social research as an inherently narrative activity that conceptualises both how domination is perpetuated, and the possible ways to transf...
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When do arts-based methodologies work?: a case illustration involving newcomer experiences and knowledge-production in community-based research Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-04 Chelsey J.J. Finney, James Cresswell
ABSTRACT This paper discusses the joint-knowledge production that emerged through a community-based research project conducted in partnership with a social service organization. Specifically, we present an unanticipated metaphor (‘Canada is clean’) that became evident through utilizing an art-based methodology. The methodology had five participants assemble photo-diaries over the span of two weeks
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Special issue introduction – working towards allyship: acknowledging and redressing power imbalances in psychology Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-03
ABSTRACT In this special issue, we create space to discuss and extend on conceptualisation, theorisation, and practice of allyship in qualitative psychology research. Allyship can be defined broadly as a way of redressing power imbalances between privileged and marginalised groups and individuals and is thus strongly aligned with qualitative methods founded on social justice. The discipline of psychology
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What watching others watching can tell us: using video vignettes alongside narrative interviews to access multiple positions and embodied information in cross-cultural mother-infant research Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-26 Nicola Dawson, Katherine Bain
ABSTRACT Culturally-embedded and embodied understandings of interaction, transmitted intergenerationally, and often non-consciously through sensory and affective memory, are notoriously difficult to access. Such information is often contained in implicit memory and is not readily available for narrative explanation. Alternative methodologies that can access these models of meaning are required. While
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The personal and the political: how a feminist standpoint theory epistemology guided an interpretative phenomenological analysis Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-15 Julie A. Cohen, Anusha Kassan, Kaori Wada, Megan Suehn
Abstract Given the call for increased emphasis on multicultural and social justice orientations in the field of counselling psychology, this manuscript explores how the union of different knowledge traditions might offer further means of incorporating culturally sensitive and social justice perspectives into traditional knowledge discovery. We propose that afeminist standpoint theory (FST) epistemology
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Tensions and potentials of involving young people in discourse analysis: an example from a study on sexual consent Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Saskia Jones, Kate Milnes, Tamara Turner-Moore
ABSTRACT Involving participants/intended audiences in discourse analysis may help to avoid overemphasising the structural effects of discourse and silencing participant voice. Yet, involving participants in complex analytic processes effectively can prove difficult. In this study, the authors undertook a Foucauldian discourse analysis of sexual consent material within eight (predominantly UK) wide-ranging
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Introduction to Special Issue Quality in Qualitative Approaches: Celebrating Heterogeneity Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Jessica Nina Lester, Michelle O’Reilly
ABSTRACT Debates regarding quality in qualitative research are longstanding. There are continued calls for additional quality indicators that account for the heterogeneity of qualitative methodologies. In this introduction to the special issue, we take up the idea that quality criteria are often specific to a given methodological approach. Thus, included within this special issue, and overviewed in
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Auto-ethnography and psy-critique in Covid times. A book review essay of Ian Parker’s Psychology through Critical Auto-ethnography Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-05-07 Jan De Vos
ABSTRACT This book review essay of Ian Parker’s Psychology through Critical Auto-ethnography has three objectives. The first is to provide an assessment of Parker’s unique contribution to the field of Critical Psychology. Parker’s critique of the psy-sciences is shown to offer a key challenge not only to mainstream psychology but also to those who envision themselves working in the field of Critical
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Explosion or much ado about little?: a quantitative examination of qualitative publications from 1995-2017 Qual. Res. Psychol. (IF 19.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-28 Loren D. Marks, Heather Howell Kelley, Quinn Galbraith
ABSTRACT Following a report of a 15-fold increase in published qualitative studies catalogued in PsycNET between 1995 and 2016, researchers engaged in a closer examination of changes in published qualitative research. Four questions are addressed: (1) Can the reported 15-fold increase of published qualitative studies indexed in a psychology database be replicated using a similar database? (2) If the