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Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Martin Zebracki, Emily Diamand, Aydan Greatrick
This article examines creative writing (CW) as a place-based methodology for doing and analysing fieldwork. Drawing insights from CW scholarship and workshops as part of a collaborative project, we contribute new empirically-informed insights from peer researchers about the significance of leveraging emotional connections, detailed attention to lived experiences, and the researcher's experiences in
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Turning the tables or business as usual? COVID-19 as a catalyst in North–South research collaborations Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 An Ansoms, Anuarite Bashizi, Romuald Adili Amani, Joel Baraka Akilimali, Lionel Bisimwa Matabaro, Parfait Kaningu Bushenyula, David Mutabesha, Sylvie Bashizi Nabintu, Guillaume Ndayikengurutse, Joseph Nsabimana, Patient Polepole
Since February 2020, we have witnessed COVID-19 profoundly disturb ongoing research dynamics – including research collaborations between the Global North and the Global South. Reduced international and regional mobility obliged research collaborations to reinvent their modalities. The role of field-based researchers (those physically ‘there’) has never been more crucial. This article draws on the testimonies
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Awaiting further consideration Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Jane Dickson
School exclusion is a relatively rare occurrence, but there is a disproportionate over-representation of students with special educational needs (SEN) being excluded from mainstream classrooms, both formally and through hidden practices. Venturing from the classroom into the world of educational research for my doctoral study, I came across further potentially exclusionary practices as questions were
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‘You’ll come back another day’ Exploring the challenges of interviewing upper class elites Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Graham Grant, Heather Fulford, Peter Reid
This article addresses the challenges of undertaking elite interviews with members of the aristocracy and gentry who constitute the upper classes in Great Britain. It reviews the existing guidance on elite interviewing from a number of social science disciplines highlighting areas of commonality and difference. The aim of the article is to provide advice for those undertaking research on the upper
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Troubling go-alongs through the lens of care Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Harriet Larrington-Spencer, Ersilia Verlinghieri, Emma Lawlor, Rachel Aldred
Go alongs are a popular research method for studying everyday mobility practices, providing insight into embodied experiences of engaging with lived environments. Generally considered positive and productive, there is increasingly discussion of go-along interviews as emotionally, cognitively and physically demanding. We consider care an essential component of go-along interviews. However, this has
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Question cards: Putting your cards on the table in the interview process Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Andrea Cornwall
This research note introduces the use of question cards as a technique that can aid the interviewing process. Question cards provide a dynamic checklist of themes and questions, affording interviewers and interviewees increased flexibility in shaping dialogue. This approach empowers interviewees by allowing them to influence the interview's direction, determine question order, and contribute their
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On assistants and researchers: Power, positionality and vulnerability during fieldwork on the Colombian conflict Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Laura Ramírez Rodríguez, Wolfgang Minatti
As field researchers have increasingly explored the methodological ‘backstage’ of their fieldwork, the relationship between researcher and assistant has come to the fore. While the literature has discussed gender, coloniality, and exploitation inherent to such work arrangements, less has been written about how the relation conditions and is conditioned by experiences of vulnerability. In this article
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On being a ‘passive observer’: The corporeal and affective dimensions of power in observational research on trafficked women in criminal proceedings Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Sharron FitzGerald
In this article, I analyse the methodological issues that arise when I accept a judge's invitation to observe her hear women testify in criminal proceedings against their traffickers at the district courthouse in X, Germany. I develop a theoretical framework using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of embodied power and his methods of epistemic reflexivity and participant objectivation, and feminist engagements
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Embodied reflexivity in voice-only interviewing: Navigating gender in difficult-to-access contexts Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Muhammad Salman Khan
This article reflects on my experiences as a male researcher using voice-only WhatsApp interviews to study women's affect and Taliban violence in Pakistan's Swat Valley. It considers the opportunities and constraints posed by doing research in supposedly disembodied online space. It also positions remote voice-only interviews as both embodied and embedded practices. This understanding situates the
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Told and untold stories: Finding new ways to represent the voices of culturally diverse learners through narrative vignettes Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Justine Dakin, Frances Giampapa
This article considers the challenges of representing young, ethnically diverse learners via narrative vignettes. Aware of young learners’ underrepresentation in research reporting compared to adult teaching perspectives, we feel it important to review methodologies that claim to represent young learners’ stories. Looking back at a year-long critical ethnography, we return to the data, reflecting on
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A day without Global North researchers: Making space for equitable collaboration after COVID-19 Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Annalisa Bolin, Tatiana Carayannis, Gino Vlavonou, David Nkusi
What happens when researchers based in the Global North are suddenly unable to access research sites, especially those in the Global South? In 2020, COVID-related public health measures and travel restrictions made clear how dependent certain categories of researchers in the North are on easy access to research sites in the South. The space opened up by their pandemic-imposed retreat and the solutions
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Global crisis and research production: COVID-19 as shaper and shaker or micro-interruption? Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 David Mwambari, Andrea Purdeková, Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka
This special issue asks what happens to international research and collaboration when the research community becomes temporarily immobilized. The COVID-19 global pandemic powerfully disrupted normal ways of doing research and, therefore, created a perfect natural experiment of the “otherwise” for digital qualitative research in sensitive contexts. The collected papers argue that the lessons extracted
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Designing afro-emancipatory qualitative research with and for Black people Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Johanne Jean-Pierre, Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Tya Collins, Emmanuela Ojukwu
Since the tragic death of George Floyd in May 2020, there has been increased interest in anti-racist research. Consequently, several scholars are instigating qualitative inquiries in Black communities with limited preparation or expertise. This article presents a reflection regarding essential principles that can guide general and afro-emancipatory health and social sciences qualitative inquiries in
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(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-19 Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, Marcos Vizcarra
From the positionality of a Mexican scholar in security studies who identifies as female and an investigative journalist born and working in Sinaloa, Mexico, this article builds on existing scholarship examining the positionality of local stakeholders who are integral to the production of knowledge in conflict settings. In early 2021, Mexico had the world's third-highest number of deaths caused by
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Remote qualitative research after the COVID-19 pandemic: Ethical reflections from a prepandemic study with families of the enforced disappeared in Perú Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Miryam Rivera-Holguín, Sofie de Smet, Victoria Cavero Huapaya, Jozef Corveleyn, Lucia De Haene
This article considers the ethical complexities of remote research practices in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. It draws on an analysis of prepandemic in-person fieldwork with survivors of collective violence and families of the enforced disappeared in Perú. We shed light on the specific challenges of using remote research processes with victims of human rights abuses. We propose a reflective research
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Giving up the ‘Good Research Child’ Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Abi Hackett, Mel Hall, Kate Pahl, Peter Kraftl
Do you like apples? Do you want to plant trees? Do you love books? Qualitative research with children is peppered with vignettes of what we conceptualise as the ‘Good Research Child’. Good Research Children tell stories, plant trees, eat healthily, love reading and engage enthusiastically with researchers as co-playmates. They explore the world with drawings and oral stories and are enthusiastically
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But where's the body? Bodies, time, money, and the political economy of post-pandemic field research Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Donna Baines, Susan Braedley, Tamara Daly, Gudmund Ågotnes, Albert Banerjee, Elias Chaccour, Karine Côté-Boucher, Stinne Glasdam, Sean Hillier, Martha MacDonald, Frode Fadnes Jacobsen, Christie Stilwell
Since the pandemic, field work has been transformed by shifts in the political economy affecting the material conditions underpinning research. In this research note, a research team considers their challenges and learning in completing field studies conducted in 2022, including intensified strains on time, money, researchers’ bodies, and risks associated with illness and infection spread. We argue
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North-South research collaboration during complex global emergencies: Qualitative knowledge production and sharing during COVID-19 Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Adriana Rudling, Mohamed Sesay, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm, Angelika Rettberg
Large multinational teams of academics and activist-practitioners that span the Global North-South divide have become common in qualitative research because of the reliance of field of peace and conflict studies on “local” knowledge and expertise. Complex global emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, present the opportunity to (re)shape and (re)consider these endeavors in key some ways. This article
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A social researcher researching social researchers – Lessons from feminist epistemologies Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Lili Schwoerer
Qualitative research literature discusses how power shapes the interview process and the resulting data and explores the epistemic basis for interview research theoretically. However, processes of negotiating epistemic authority in the interview situation, and in data analysis, are investigated less frequently. This paper draws on 34 interviews with social science academics interested in gender, feminist
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Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Gabrielle Lynch
This paper introduces driving around with people in private cars as a research space to which walking methods can be adapted and in which productive accidental ethnography can take place. Whether one is walking or driving together with research participant(s), one's shared mobility is key: the act and rhythm of moving together through land and sense-scapes provides prompts and insights and facilitates
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Remote interviewing, accessibility, and scams: Notes on a case of fraudulent responses to a recruitment flyer Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 M. Ariel Cascio
Remote interviewing has become even more common since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and allows greater accessibility for many interview participants regardless of pandemic circumstances. This accessibility is especially important in the context of my research with autistic individuals. However, it may also expose interview studies to the same concerns about fraudulent responses that survey studies
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Writing against the chain transmission of fear: Reflections on institutionalised ethics Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Mieke Struwig
As a master's student investigating curricular decolonisation at South African tertiary music departments, I found myself in a chain of fear driven by previous contestations of similar critical projects. Despite stringently following the institutional ethics requirements, ethical concerns regarding the critical content of my work were still raised, perpetuating this fear. In this article, I discuss
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The space between us: Developing an ethics of care in duoethnography Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Amabel Hunting, Kay Hammond
Duoethnography involves engaging in a personal critical dialogue between two people about a shared experience for the purpose of personal and social transformation. Research involving people usually requires prior formal ethical approval; however, in duoethnography where the researchers are also the participants, many have chosen not to do so due to the situated and ongoing nature of the ethical relationship
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Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Mia Harrison, Tim Rhodes, Kari Lancaster
This paper reflects on the use of objects in qualitative interview methods. We consider the use of objects in “single” research events and in longitudinal designs. This leads us to consider how using objects in interviews situates in relation to time. Emphasizing the materiality of objects as well as how objects help to materialize events, experiences, and accounts, we explore what objects do and how
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Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Charlie Davis, Adam Matthews, Georgiana Mihut, Stacey Mottershaw, Jessica Hawkins, Penny Rivlin, Blair Matthews
Composite storytelling as a social qualitative research method represents a growing spirit of creativity to explore themes of social injustice. This article discusses the potential methodological affordances and challenges of such approaches when used to collectively unsettle, interrogate and (re)imagine what it means to become an academic of working-class heritage. The participatory project discussed
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Affecting photos: Photographs as shared, affective ethnographic spaces Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Jennifer Rowsell
Scholars point to the ubiquity of visual images in media and popular culture as driving striking developments in visual research over the past decade. Yet, with this popularity, there is less attention paid to affective, non-representational dimensions of visual images and specifically to the ways that photos animate and inform ethnographic fieldwork. The felt, sensory qualities photographs hold play
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Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Ash Watson, Emma Kirby
How we elicit rich reflections from people about their feelings and experiences is a central consideration of qualitative research. Creative techniques of elicitation can open reflective dialogic spaces between participants and researchers, bridging memory and meaning. In this article we discuss participant-led explorations of a digital story-mapping platform as an elicitation technique in qualitative
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Latina mothers in participatory action research: Insights and reflections of a mathematics co-design session tool Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Susana Beltrán-Grimm
Co-design methods offer a powerful collaborative approach that allows for integrating various participants’ needs and expectations in the design process. However, current co-design tools often reflect a Eurocentric bias, limiting their utility in diverse settings. This article explores co-design methodologies and their application in a study with Spanish-speaking Latina mothers living in Southern California
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Trust, nuance, and care: Advantages and challenges of repeat qualitative interviews Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 David Rodriguez Goyes, Sveinung Sandberg
Most methodological discussions about the pros and cons of repeat interviews fall within qualitative longitudinal literature and are premised on project designs with relatively long intervals between encounters. Less attention has been paid to the practice and ethics of repeat interviewing as a stand-alone method, that does not follow participants long-term, but instead conducts several interviews
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Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Christopher C Jadallah
Attention to researcher positionality is an important component of qualitative research, particularly in research done with and for communities. However, discussions of researcher positionality are often limited in that they narrowly focus on positionality with respect to human research participants and whether the researcher is an insider or outsider. In this article, I build with the contributions
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Co-operative inquiry: Qualitative methodology transforming research ‘about’ to research ‘with’ people Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Erica Russ, Melissa Petrakis, Louise Whitaker, Robyn Fitzroy, Monica Short
Co-operative inquiry, pioneered by Heron and Reason, is a qualitative, participatory methodology that powerfully transforms research from inquiring about people to inquiring with people. Contemporary qualitative research is increasingly trending from studying others to engaging all participants in research processes as equal collaborators. Consequently, many qualitative researchers are looking to participatory
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Questioning ‘voice’ and silence: Exploring creative and participatory approaches to researching with children through a Reggio Emilian lens Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Sarah Chicken, Gisselle Tur Porres, Dawn Mannay, Jade Parnell, Jacky Tyrie
There has been much debate around the ‘voice’ of the child in qualitative research. This paper contributes to these discussions by drawing on the philosophy of Reggio Emilia, which emphasizes dialogical encounters that recognize the value of children's subjectivities. The paper critically reflects on a qualitative study of primary education during the COVID-19 pandemic that involved children aged 5–7
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The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Maren Hawkins, Derek Johnson, Noelani Vargas, Joseph Peschio, Nina Familiant, Olga Ogurtsova, Maria Del Carmen Graf, Shary Perez Torres, Esmeralda Santacruz Salas, Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Peninnah Kako, Paul Florsheim, Young Cho, Lance Weinhardt
There are numerous ethical and procedural challenges when conducting cross-language research, and there is a need to discuss the role of multilingual researchers, as much of the existing literature focuses on working with third-party interpreters or translators. In this article, we expand the recommendations for cross-language research for multilingual researchers and health studies, through an examination
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Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 R Finn, A Brown
Currently, limited guidance is offered to qualitative researchers regarding ways to undertake data analysis that focus on the complex transactions of person and place. We propose that honouring mutuality of person and place requires analysis textured as ‘custodianship’ of the diverse expression of values in research data that constitutes an ‘ecology’. The process of analysis as custodians is the enacted
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Towards a natural semiotics for centralising ‘out of this world’ images in research with children Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Donna M. Thomas
This article discusses using concepts from various fields across general semiotics, to centralise children's abstract images in research. The aim is to move towards a natural semiotics – which accommodates the primordial, natural and universal dimensions of experience – that children connote through their ‘out of this world’ images. Natural semiotics is a term used to interrogate typical socio-cultural
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‘Softening hedges’ as analytic lens and methodological tool in research on advance care planning with Vietnamese migrants Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Tanya Zivkovic, Nga Nguyen, Rachael De Haas, Debbie Faulkner
Advance care planning is built upon starting conversations about ageing, illness and the end of life. So too is research in this field. In an Australian study about Vietnamese migrants’ responses to planning ahead for aged and end-of-life care, research participants called into question this direct approach to communication. Attempting to destabilise the dominance of Anglophone approaches to advance
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How can we do ethnographic research in a controversy? Lessons and reflections from a multi-sided ethnography of badger culling and bovine Tuberculosis Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Jessica Phoenix
Ethnographic research of controversies with divisive sides provides valuable insight into how controversies are enacted, their heterogeneities, and how relations between sides shape interwoven identities. However, the methodology raises specific challenges for researchers, and there is a lack of insight on how to do multi-sided ethnographies. This article considers how to undertake multi-sided ethnography
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The rise of virtual yarning: An Indigenist research method Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Samantha Cooms, Sharlene Leroy-Dyer, Olav Muurlink
Social media is of growing interest as a platform for post-COVID research, providing ungated platforms for minority groups and activists that may struggle to have their messages and voices heard in other media. In First Nations communities around Australia there is a higher-than-average uptake of social media platforms, particularly Facebook. Based on a qualitative research project with a First Nations
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Using interview excerpts to facilitate focus group discussion Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Alina Geampana, Manuela Perrotta
The use of interviews and focus groups is well-established in the social science methods literature. However, discussion on how research can combine these two methods in creative ways is less common. While researchers are generally aware of the potential of focus groups for further probing issues that emerge in one-on-one interviews, few studies detail how this might be achieved in practice. In this
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Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Amy Sanders
Advances in online data collection spurred on by a pandemic springboard have been well recognised, but less attention has been given to corresponding approaches in recruitment. This article addresses this gap by examining whether recruitment challenges can be overcome by utilising personalised recordings to recruit interviewees. Developed to engage elite interviewees in challenging circumstances, this
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From Interpretation to Interruption: Embracing disruptive analysis Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Timothy Clark
Qualitative analysis is, inherently, a complex, messy and nuanced process. In the context of contested notions of validity, for novice researchers there is therefore an attraction in adopting established, systematic and formulaic approaches. Yet, in prioritising methodical processes, over critical engagement and methodologically coherent quality criteria, these approaches can risk limiting research
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Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Valentina Baú
This research note introduces the experience of using ‘timelines’ as a visual research method during online interviewing. It does so through a series of questions and answers that guide the reader through an exploration, understanding of and reflection on the method. This qualitative approach was used while conducting research on the influence that participation in a Reality TV show had on its finalists
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Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Tadeo Weiner Davis, Hannah Obertino-Norwood
This methodological analysis traces the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak on two ethnographic studies in Chicago: a neighborhood fight for affordable housing, and an effort to increase local participation in the 2020 U.S. Census. We attend to the relationship between space and visibility after the onset of the pandemic as methodological and political challenges. Drawing on Haraway's seminal
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Who can you trust these days?: Dealing with imposter participants during online recruitment and data collection Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Alan Santinele Martino, Arielle Perrotta, Brenna Janet McGillion
The use of digital technologies in qualitative research has been found to increase access and participation by minimizing geographical, scheduling, and financial barriers. However, discussions among the qualitative research community about the challenges of conducting research online and, specifically, what steps can be taken to mitigate “imposter participants” remain limited. Anchored in a critical
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Mapping working practices as systems: An analytical model for visualising findings from an institutional ethnography Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Anna Hawkins
This paper presents a new methodological model that was developed whilst carrying out an Institutional Ethnography to explore school food working practices. The model brings together two complementary approaches; Institutional Ethnography and Systems Thinking, to offer a novel approach to the analysis and visualisation of ethnographic data as systems maps that show how power shapes practices. This
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The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Evi Schmid, Veerle Garrels, Børge Skåland
Rapport is generally considered an essential component of successful interviewing, where participants are willing to share and divulge information. The present paper contributes to the research on rapport in qualitative interviewing by exploring ethical tensions that researchers may experience when conducting qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants. The analysis is based on semi-structured
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Practicing care-full scholarship: Exploring the use of ‘visual informed consent’ in a study of motherhood, health and agroecology in Coventry, UK Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Mai Abbas, Alex Franklin, Stefanie Lemke, Chiara Tornaghi
The demand for alternative methods of providing informed consent is increasing, especially in research with marginalised (or illiterate) research participants. This article discusses the co-creation of a visual informed consent (VIC), in collaboration with an artist. The VIC was inspired by the experience of obtaining informed consent from a group of migrant women with limited English proficiency,
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“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Hana Porkertová, Robert Osman, Lucie Pospíšilová, Pavel Doboš, Zuzana Kopecká
Despite the growing interest in walking methods in disability research, their methodological difficulties are rarely examined. Therefore, we debate the challenges of doing go-along interviews with visually disabled people when geographically studying blind experience with urban space. The article is divided into two parts. The methodological part examines the difficulties we encountered to contribute
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Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners. Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Ruth Rodney,Marsha Hinds,Jessica Bonilla-Damptey,Danielle Boissoneau,Aaliya Khan,Anika Forde
Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and anti-oppression (AO) policies are implemented in research to address intersecting systemic barriers for marginalized populations. Grant applications now include questions about EDI to ensure researchers have considered how research designs perpetuate discriminatory practices. However, complying with these measures may not mean that researchers have engaged
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Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens. Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Lindsay C Sheppard,Rebecca Raby
Side comments and conversations in focus groups can pose challenges for facilitators. Rather than seeing side comments as problematic behavior or "failed" data, we argue that they can add to and deepen analyses. Drawing on focus group data with grade nine students from a study on early work, in this methodological paper we discuss three patterns. First, side comments have highlighted where participants
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Parental Financial Assistance and Psychological Well-Being Among Korean Emerging Adults: Pressure from and Fulfillment of Parental Career Expectations as Mediators Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Sangmin Oh, Jaerim Lee
Many emerging adults receive parental financial assistance (PFA) to prepare for their future and career, but it can also be a psychological burden through parental career expectations. The purpose ...
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Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Iris Po Yee Lo
Engaging with visual methodology literature and the concept of ‘family display’, this article examines how visual methods can generate new ways of understanding the (in)visibility of queer family l...
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Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Seb Rumsby, Jennifer Philippa Eggert
This article contributes to the growing literature on researcher reflexivity by broaching the often-ignored issue of religious positionalities within political science, as well as speaking to the m...
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Translating (in) the margins: The dilemmas, ethics, and politics of a transnational feminist approach to translating in multilingual qualitative research Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Tanja Burkhard, Su Jin Park
Drawing on two multilingual qualitative datasets (Korean/English and German/English), this paper examines the dual role and positionalities of two researchers who simultaneously act as translators,...
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Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical dilemmas Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Alla Korzh
While there is a strong body of literature documenting various challenges qualitative researchers face with vulnerable populations in the Global North, there is a dearth of research on the ethical ...
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More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Susanne Börner, Peter Kraftl, Leandro L Giatti
Based on the shift from face-to-face participatory action research (PAR) with groups in situations of vulnerability to digital methods during COVID-19, we reflect on how we can go beyond compensati...
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Qualitative research in crisis: A narrative-practice methodology to delve into the discourse and action of the unheard in the COVID-19 pandemic Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Julie Boéri, Deborah Giustini
This paper develops and applies a methodology of qualitative inquiry that equips researchers to capture how social actors produce and contest accepted forms of knowledge at the margins of mainstrea...
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Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Judith Loveridge, Bronwyn Elisabeth Wood, Eddy Davis-Rae, Hiria McRae
The growth of relational, participatory, collaborative and emergent research approaches in recent years has brought new ethical challenges for research with children and youth. These approaches req...
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On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Luigi Gariglio
This is an autoethnographic note on conducting fieldwork with the purpose of documenting; first, outside academia––doing documentary photography; and second doing ethnography and autoethnography wi...
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Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia Qualitative Research (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Erin Brock Carlson, Martina Angela Caretta
Photovoice is an increasingly popular research method across disciplines due to its flexibility and capacity for generating rich data. This article argues that while its practical virtues are abund...