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Free association and qualitative research interviewing: perspectives and applications Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Philip John Archard, Michelle O'Reilly, Massimiliano Sommantico
Purpose This paper contributes to a dialogue about the psychoanalytic concept of free association and its application in the context of qualitative research interviewing. In doing so, it also adds to wider discussion regarding the relationship between clinical psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and qualitative research. Design/methodology/approach Critical consideration of different perspectives
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Advancing women to leadership in academia: does personal branding matter? Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Heriberta Heriberta, Nurdiana Gaus, Muhammad Azwar Paramma, Nursita Utami
Purpose Personal branding is a strategic tool of marketing and communication to define success in organisations. While it constitutes a conscious attempt to commodify self and audit self, it must be intentionally managed to obtain its optimum results. This study aims to illustrate how personal branding may also pose unintentional and unconscious strategic tool for women academics in academia to help
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Emic and etic perspectives in transnational migration research: methodological reflections of a cross-national research team Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Kwanchit Sasiwongsaroj, Mitsuko Ono, Sutpratana Duangkaew, Yumi Kimura
Purpose This article presents fieldwork perspectives and research reflexivity gained from the cross-national research team, with the aim of promoting better qualitative research practices in transnational research. It focuses on how the team incorporates diverse cultural perspectives and insider and outsider roles to enhance the research in the data collection process. Design/methodology/approach This
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Understanding communicative relationships between caregivers and foreign retirees: a diffractive vignettes approach Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Narongdej Phanthaphoommee, Sunida Siwapathomchai
Purpose This article seeks to provide a fresh perspective on the methodological approach to studying caregiving in a transnational context by analysing, local caregiver’s lifeworld, informal interpreting/translation and professional communication with foreign retirees. Design/methodology/approach This project explores the complex and multifaceted meanings of everyday objects through diffractive vignettes
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Towards a more balanced treatment of culture in international business using an ethnographic design: a multinational family business case study Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Viktoriya Zipper-Weber, Andrea Mandik
Purpose The negative cultural bias vis-à-vis international business and cross-cultural management has been duly acknowledged, necessitating recommendations towards investigating its positive effects. Methodologically, quantitative research clearly predominates, and there have been calls for alternative approaches. Thus, this conceptual paper addresses the research gap (methodological and thematic)
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Critical realism, ethnography and translations: an investigation into a Japanese school Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Richard H. Derrah
Purpose In this article, I explore how critical realism influenced the methods and methodology as well as the translations of interviews from Japanese into English and the interpretations of teachers’ understanding of the school at the center of this research. Design/methodology/approach This article investigates the interaction of critical realism within an English-language-based study of a Japanese
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Being on the inside: a research methodology for data collection within the inner circle of the domain of video game translation/localization in Thailand Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Koraya Techawongstien
Purpose The Thai video game domain has witnessed substantial growth in recent years. However, many games enjoyed by Thai players are in foreign languages, with only a handful of titles translated/localized into the Thai locale. Some Thai video game enthusiasts have taken on the role of unofficial translators/localizers, contributing to a localization domain that accommodates both official and unofficial
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Reflections on a cross-cultural interview study Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Trine Hove Langdal
Purpose The aim of this article is to address some aspects of a cross-cultural interview study conducted in a PhD research project. This is done by reflecting on and discussing the influence of language and culture on the research process, as experienced by the researcher. Design/methodology/approach The experiences have been taken from an interview study with fifteen American participants in which
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A phenomenological study of university lecturers’ EFL teaching challenges in an Asian setting Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Marlon Sipe, Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan
Purpose English, the lingua franca of the world, permeates a global teaching-learning space not only for communication per se but also as a medium of instruction and social interaction. The authors studied the lived experiences of five English-speaking university lecturers as regards English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching in a non-English-speaking Asian country. Design/methodology/approach Using
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Tell me about your trauma: an empathetic approach-based protocol for interviewing school leaders who have experienced a crisis Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Patricia Virella, Sarah Woulfin
Purpose In this study, we illuminate how techniques can be incorporated into interview protocols when conducting research with educational leaders who are being asked to discuss their experiences in crises. Design/methodology/approach We interviewed seven researchers about their role as a researcher in collecting data on a crisis event from participants. Our analysis concentrated on several key components
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Animal Farm afterlife: epitextual values Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Gritiya Rattanakantadilok
Purpose The present article seeks to further the analysis by examining the epitext employed by the press seeing as the epitext in the digital spaces might have given Animal Farm and its Thai re-translations a new lease on life. Design/methodology/approach The interest in the study of translation and paratext has primarily been in analysing peritextual material of translated texts, not on the epitext
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Culturally responsive and communicative teaching for multicultural integration: qualitative analysis from public secondary school Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Miftachul Huda, Abu Bakar
Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine the strategic approach of culturally responsive and communicative teaching (CRCT) through a critical assessment of interracial teachers in their daily school interactions. Design/methodology/approach The empirical data were obtained through interviews among ten interracial teachers. The analysis was made through a thematic approach to obtain substantial data
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Women leaders' lived experiences of bravery in leadership Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Michelle E. Bartlett
Purpose The research aims to understand the stories of women leaders who have demonstrated bravery in leadership. By analyzing their lived experiences through storytelling and narratives, it seeks to shed light on the challenges and motivations behind their brave actions, contributing to a deeper understanding of bravery in leadership within gender and organizational contexts. Design/methodology/approach
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The use of digital technologies in the co-creation process of photo elicitation Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Rosa Agúndez Del Castillo, Lígia Ferro, Eduardo Silva
Purpose This article approaches the possibilities of photo elicitation as a technique for social research in the landscape of technology-mediated instantaneous interpersonal communication. Design/methodology/approach This case study, which involved persons with prison experience in the process of returning to the community, demonstrates how participant-generated photographs made with mobile handheld
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Translanguaging approaches and perceptions of Iranian EGP teachers in bi/multilingual educational spaces: a qualitative inquiry Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Amir Ghajarieh, Afarin Aghabozorgi
Purpose This study aims to analyze translanguaging practices and beliefs of Iranian English for General Purposes (EGP) teachers and find discrepancies between the practice and perception of educators in bi/multilingual species in Iranian educational settings. Design/methodology/approach The study involved interviewing ten teachers and observing six of their sessions, which yielded qualitative data
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Listening to children's voices: reflections on methods, practices and ethics in researching with children using zoom video interviews Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Cynthia Ai Ming Lim, G. Kaveri
Purpose The purpose of this research was to reflect on the enablers, challenges and ethical considerations in conducting qualitative research with young children using online methods. The aim was to suggest recommended practices to be put in place for researchers conducting online focus groups and interviews with young children. Design/methodology/approach This research article explores the use of
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Translating Buddhist mindfulness into action: engaging older Thai adults in participatory action research Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Nuntiya Doungphummes, Sirintorn Bhibulbhanuvat, Theeraphong Boonrugsa
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate and discuss the application of mindfulness practices rooted in Buddhism as the methodological praxis in implementing participatory action research (PAR) projects with older Thai adults. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on the researchers' reflexive accounts of participatory action conducted with older Thai participants in a series of four
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Unraveling the challenges of education for sustainable development: a compelling case study Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Mohd Syahidan Zainal Abidin, Mahani Mokhtar, Mahyuddin Arsat
Purpose Education for sustainable development (ESD) has gained significant attention, but integrating ESD into existing education systems is challenging. The study aims to explore the challenges of ESD experienced by school leaders, focusing on the context of Malaysian schools. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a qualitative approach with a single-case study design. Eight school leaders involved
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Poetic inquiry: a tool for decolonising qualitative research Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Samantha Cooms, Vicki Saunders
Purpose Poetic inquiry is an approach that promotes alternate perspectives about what research means and speaks to more diverse audiences than traditional forms of research. Across academia, there is increasing attention to decolonising research. This reflects a shift towards research methods that recognise, acknowledge and appreciate diverse ways of knowing, being and doing. The purpose of this paper
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Knowledge in the public realm – the educative agent Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Karen Charman
Purpose The purpose of the project was to intervene in a deficit reading of communities. This article engages public pedagogy in a way that suggests a new approach to the field. To this end, both the terms public and pedagogy are interrogated. Design/methodology/approach The approach in this paper is an analysis of a qualitative research project: the knowledge project and pop-up school. The theoretical
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A reflection on the intergenerational maps project as pedagogical performance Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Iffat Khatoon
Purpose The paper aims to explore the intergenerational maps project that set out to map the Brimbank and Moonee Valley residents' awareness of their favourite aspects of their local community. In reflecting on the way this project enabled local knowledge exchanges between different age groups, the paper examines the way intergenerational interactions become pedagogical and make public and public pedagogy
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Disrupting the rhetoric of education: separating the spin of teaching and learning from the reality Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Ligia Pelosi
Purpose The Instagram site, teacherwhispers, was created as part of a qualitative research project that chronicled the stories and lived experience of preservice and graduate teachers. Since 2020, the purpose of the study was to identify themes connected to the participants' experiences of current trends in education. The intent was to situate the research as a critical interruption into the bigger
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Using teacher narratives to map policy effects in the Victorian Government International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB-PYP) context Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Benjamin Zonca, Josh Ambrosy
Purpose Government primary schools in Australia increasingly take up the International Baccalaureate's Primary Years Programme (IB-PYP) to supplement government-mandated curriculum and governance expectations. The purpose of this paper is to explore how teachers navigate and contest dual policy-practice expectations in the Victorian Government IB-PYP context. Design/methodology/approach This study
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Children's voices through play-based practice: listening, intensities and critique Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Lynsey Anne Burke, Duncan Mercieca
Purpose This paper offers a reflection of a research process aimed at listening to young children's voices in their everyday school life through a play-based context in a Scottish school. Throughout the research process, the complexity of conducting this research was kept in mind as listening to children's voices presents methodological and conceptual difficulties and tensions. Reflecting on the research
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Towards an understanding of how school climate strikes work as public pedagogy Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Bronwyn A. Sutton
Purpose School climate strikes are opening spaces of appearance, becoming differently active forms of public pedagogy where new and previously unthought collective climate action is possible. This inquiry contributes to understanding school climate strikes as important forms of climate justice activism by exploring how they work as public pedagogy. Design/methodology/approach The inquiry process involved
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Illuminating the path: a methodological exploration of grounded theory in doctoral theses Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Laura Guerrero Puerta, Rocío Lorente García
Purpose This article explores challenges faced by doctoral candidates using grounded theory (GT) in their theses, focusing on coding, theory development and time constraints. It also examines the impact of doctoral committees on GT dissertations, addressing epistemological clashes and the desire for familiarity over novelty. Design/methodology/approach Drawing from a multilevel autoethnography and
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Handle with care; considerations of Braun and Clarke's approach to thematic analysis Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Lee Hole
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to support potential users of thematic analysis (as outlined by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke). Researchers with the intention of applying thematic analysis are advised to consider the theoretical framework of their work and how differing ontological and epistemological standpoints influences their approach to thematic analysis. Design/methodology/approach
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It's too late – the post has gone viral already: a novel methodological stance to explore K-12 teachers' lived experiences of adult cyber abuse Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Janine Arantes
Purpose The purpose of this scoping rapid review was to identify and analyse existing qualitative methodologies that have been used to investigate K-12 teachers' lived experiences of adult cyber abuse as a result of student content “going viral” to propose a novel methodological stance incorporating the Australian Online Safety Act 2021. Design/methodology/approach A search of Google Scholar was conducted
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Behind my pet's shadow: exploring the motives underlying the tendency of socially excluded consumers to anthropomorphize their pets Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Elif Tanrikulu, Ibrahim Taylan Dortyol
Purpose Social exclusion is a complicated psychological phenomenon with behavioral ramifications that influences consumers' lifestyles and behaviors. In contrast, anthropomorphism is a phenomenon that marketing strategists employ and that occurs in customers' lives as a result of social isolation. The literature discusses these two complicated structures as ones that require investigation based on
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Problem areas of determining the sample size in qualitative research: a model proposal Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Hasan Tutar, Mehmet Şahin, Teymur Sarkhanov
Purpose The lack of a definite standard for determining the sample size in qualitative research leaves the research process to the initiative of the researcher, and this situation overshadows the scientificity of the research. The primary purpose of this research is to propose a model by questioning the problem of determining the sample size, which is one of the essential issues in qualitative research
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Street vendors and power relations among actors: process of place making in Borobudur food and craft market Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Cicilia Larasati Rembulan, Astrid Kusumowidagdo, Melania Rahadiyanti
Purpose Existing literature shows conflicting views regarding street vendors in a place. They are considered both positive and negative. Their existence has rarely been examined from a combination of place-making and power theories. This research aimed (a) to identify the actors who transform Borobudur Food and Craft Market and the sources of power and actions carried out by these actors and (b) to
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Language, educational inequalities and epistemic access: crafting alternative pathways for Fiji Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Prashneel Ravisan Goundar
Purpose The goal of this article is two-fold. The first is to contribute new insights to inform education policies for addressing the underlying educational inequalities and injustices that are caused by lack of epistemic access in the context of Fiji higher education. The second is to explore how the Grounded Theory Methodology can be applied to longitudinal language testing research that seeks to
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Visual tools for supporting interviews in qualitative research: new approaches Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Marta Olmo-Extremera, Lucía Fernández-Terol, Diana Amber Montes
Purpose This study aims to describe and evaluate various visual and creative tools for supporting the in-depth biographical interview aimed at analyzing educational communities and their stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach Researching educational spaces today requires new ways of understanding, analyzing and studying. The complex characteristics, functions and realities demand research that responds
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Operationalising critical realism for case study research Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Olivier Fuchs, Craig Robinson
Purpose Critical realism is an increasingly popular “lens” through which complex events, entities and phenomena can be studied. Yet detailed operationalisations of critical realism are at present relatively scarce. This study's objective here is built on existing debates by developing an open systems model of reality, a basis for designing appropriate, internally consistent methodologies. Design/methodology/approach
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The experience of hurt in the deepest part of self; a phenomenological study in young people with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Soudeh AghaMohammadi, Mohammad Ali Mazaheri, Ladan Fata, Fereshteh Mootabi, Basir Moghadasiyan
Purpose What is happening in the perceived world of young people who have non-suicidal self-injury? The answer to this question explains many quantitative research findings in the field of NSSI. The current qualitative research design is Husserl's descriptive phenomenology. Design/methodology/approach The participants included 17–29-year-old youths with self-injury and were selected with a targeted
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Living with the scepticism for qualitative research: a phenomenological polyethnography Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Jill Fenton Taylor, Ivana Crestani
Purpose This paper aims to explore how an academic researcher and a practitioner experience scepticism for their qualitative research. Design/methodology/approach The study applies Olt and Teman's new conceptual phenomenological polyethnography (2019) methodology, a hybrid of phenomenology and duoethnography. Findings For the researcher-participants, the essence of living with scepticism means feeling
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Ethics of care: pedagogical encounters from Oceania Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Belinda Mary MacGill, Sangeeta Jattan, Dropati Lal, Babra Narain, Bec Neill, Teupola Nayaca, Alexandra Diamond, Ufemia Camaitoga
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explicate the links between public pedagogy, ethics of care and storying as a methodology and method in Oceania. Design/methodology/approach This paper explores the role of extended families as First Teachers in iTaukei and Indo-Fijian Early Childhood contexts in Fiji. Using storying as methodology, the authors, three Australian and four Fijian academics, present
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How to build rapport in online space: using online chat emoticons for qualitative interviewing in feminist research Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Jiyea Park
Purpose This study draws on the author's experiences building rapport through online chat for data collection for the author's doctoral dissertation. The author contacted ten Korean women via online chat to recruit and faced the most challenging situation; building rapport. As the Millennial generation is known as being tech-savvy or digital natives, the author actively used emoticons (pictorial representations
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Factors that enhance and limit youth empowerment, according to social educators Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Asunción Llena Berñe, Anna Planas-Lladó, Carles Vila-Mumbrú, Paloma Valdivia-Vizarreta
Purpose This study aims to identify the contextual and relational factors that enhance and limit the empowerment of young people from the perspective of social education professionals. Design/methodology/approach Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model made it possible to locate the narratives of the educators in the territory. These narratives include field diaries, i.e. hybrid narratives that include
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Whose voice is heard? The complexities of power when conducting research with children using visual and arts-informed methods Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Anna Robb
Purpose This article examines the power relationships between researcher and participants, children and adults, drawing on the theories of transgressions and resistance in power, during a research project concerning children's experiences of the visual arts. Design/methodology/approach Data were gathered conducted in two Scottish primary schools by employing visual and arts-based methods, and the article
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Creating spaces of well-being in academia to mitigate academic burnout: a collaborative auto-ethnography Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Margarietha de Villiers Scheepers, Paul Williams, Vikki Schaffer, Anthony Grace, Carl Walling, Jenna Campton, Karen Hands, Deborah Fisher, Hannah Banks, Jo Loth, Aurora Scheelings
Purpose In contrast to prior studies examining burnout in academic employees, this paper explores how academic employee agency mitigates burnout risks in the context of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) and how this agency facilitates research productivity and influences well-being in the face of changes in learning and teaching practices. Design/methodology/approach The authors use collaborative
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Uncertain futures: perceptions of refugees in a story completion task Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Samuel Parker, Deborah Earnshaw, Emma Penn, Roshni Kumari
Purpose In recent years the movement of refugees has led to increasing negative media and political discourse about migration in the United Kingdom, particularly as the number of refugees crossing the English Channel has increased. Despite this hostility, little is known about how the UK public perceive the journeys made by refugees or the refugees themselves. Design/methodology/approach In this study
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“Exploring unchartered territories”: fieldwork experiences from researching street traders Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Elmond Bandauko, Godwin Arku
Purpose Doing qualitative research with vulnerable urban populations such as street traders present significant methodological challenges, which many researchers may not be prepared to handle. This paper aims to provide a reflective account of the authors' fieldwork experiences while conducting a study with street traders in Harare, Zimbabwe. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws data from a
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Rescripting creativity after automation: situating the simulacrum to interpret the queerness of computational creativity Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Janine Aldous Arantes, Mark Vicars
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how automation in the ever-changing technological landscape is increasing integrated into, and has become a significant presence in, our personal lives. Design/methodology/approach Through post qualitative inquiry, the authors provide a contemplation of automation and its effect on creativity, as a contemporary expression of dis/locations, the simulacrum
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Exploring the use of story completion to understand the perpetration of technology-facilitated abuse in relationships Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Cynthia Brown, Renee Fiolet, Dana McKay, Bridget Harris
Purpose This paper presents a novel exploration of the story completion (SC) method for investigating perpetration of technology-facilitated abuse in relationships (TAR). Design/methodology/approach The authors adopted the infrequently used SC method to explore TAR perpetration. The perpetration of TAR can involve socially undesirable and potentially illegal behaviours such as online stalking, non-consensual
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Precarious inclusion: A collaborative account of casualisation and teaching leadership challenges at the post-pandemic university Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Reshmi Lahiri-Roy, Ben Whitburn
Purpose This paper emerged from the challenges encountered by both authors as academics during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Based on their subsequent reflections on inclusion in education for minoritised academics in pandemic-affected institutional contexts, they argue that beyond student-centred foci for inclusion, equity in the field, is equally significant for diverse teachers. Working as tempered
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“A balancing act of keeping the faith and maintaining wellbeing”: perspectives from Australian faith communities during the pandemic Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Dawn Joseph, Brendan Hyde
Purpose The pandemic presented many new challenges is all spheres of life including faith communities. Around the globe, lockdowns took pace at various stages with varying restrictions that included the closure of places of worship which significantly affected the way people serve God and gather as a community. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the
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Regimes of patriarchy and faith: reflections on challenges in interviewing women and religious minorities in Pakistan Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Waqar Ali Shah, Asadullah Lashari
Purpose This paper discusses the challenges that two doctoral researchers faced while researching religious minorities and women in a culturally sensitive society such as Pakistan. Their shared interest in sensitive topics related to gender and minorities in Pakistan led both researchers to collaborate in this study to provide a better understanding of issues in qualitative research in the same research
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Talk or something more? COVID-19 and youth discourses of participation Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Andrea Szabó, András Déri
Purpose Political participation of young people has been examined, but there is a lack of research about how these participation forms are interpreted and what counts as participation for young people. The study aims to identify discourses of political participation in Hungary, where the COVID-19 restrictions during 2020–2021 have confined young people's everyday interactions and political activism
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Adolescents' mental health, coping strategies, social support and interventions: a qualitative study in Switzerland Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Lorraine Chok, Joan-Carles Suris, Yara Barrense-Dias
Purpose Adolescence is an important life stage including physical, emotional and social changes that make adolescents vulnerable to mental health issues. To face these emotional and behavioral problems, adolescents may use various coping strategies. This exploratory qualitative study aimed to better understand the coping strategies when adolescents face mental health difficulties, the reasons why some
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Does the “big tent” include non-academics? Social media content creators conducting critical scholarship Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Nicole Sankofa
Purpose LeftTube – a loosely connected community of left-leaning content creators on YouTube – includes a subsection of video essayists that conduct scholarly work seemingly adjacent to critical research. Exploring this digital community of critical scholars may precipate opportunities for collaboration and reciprocal learning to better academic qualitative research approaches. Therefore, the purpose
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A celebration of the rich tapestry of phenomenology's commonalities Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Emma L. Turley
Purpose Phenomenology has a long tradition as a qualitative research method in the social and health sciences. The application of phenomenological methods to understand lived experiences and subjectivities offers researchers a rich tapestry of methodological approaches, often however, the availability of these methods to researchers is tempered as a result of inflexible ideas regarding their use. This
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A tale from extensive readers in an online extensive reading classroom Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Moch Imam Machfudi, Sandi Ferdiansyah
Purpose While extensive reading has been widely implemented in face-to-face settings, few studies have examined how extensive reading in online classrooms is enacted. The present study aims to explore students' voice in online extensive reading classrooms. Design/methodology/approach This brief report is part of classroom action research. It involved 3 undergraduate students majoring in English education
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An investigation of how physical literacy is enacted in primary physical education Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Gillian Bartle
Purpose This research investigated how students are becoming teachers of primary school (ages 5–11) physical education (PE), using a physical literacy (PL) approach (Whitehead, 2010). Primarily methodological, the purpose was to disrupt how to investigate this topic since research highlights that the philosophy underpinning PL makes the concept difficult to operationalize (Shearer et al., 2018). D
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Exploring perceived impact of caregiving and coping strategies adopted by family caregivers of people with schizophrenia: a qualitative study in Enugu, South East Nigeria Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Chisom Joy Mbadugha, Ngozi Phoebe Ogbonnaya, Peace Njideka Iheanacho, Ngozi Joy Omotola, Pleasure Nwakaego Ogbonna, Chinenye Juliet Anetekhai
Purpose Schizophrenia, a chronic mental disorder, poses enormous threat to the individual, family and society. The advent of deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill transferred the burden of care to families especially close relatives. Few studies have described the families' subjective views in this context. Hence, this study aimed to explore impacts of caregiving and coping strategies for family
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Revisiting Peshkin: teaching reflexive practice through categorization Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Elizabeth M. Pope, Stephanie Anne Shelton
Purpose Qualitative research is well-established and widely adopted across a range of disciplines; however, there is little discussion of the teaching of qualitative research methods. What engagements there are primarily focus on methods rather than core concepts that inform ethical and effective use of those approaches. “Subjectivity” and “reflexivity” are pervasive concepts taken up in numerous textbooks
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Application of Guba and Lincoln's parallel criteria to assess trustworthiness of qualitative research on indigenous social protection systems Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Oko Chima Enworo
Purpose This paper illustrates how Guba and Lincoln's parallel criteria for establishing trustworthiness, can be adapted and applied to qualitative research on indigenous social protection systems. It provides insights for social protection researchers, exploring plausible qualitative research rigor evaluation criteria, on plausible alternatives. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on qualitative
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Three realities and a new-found focus: parenting and disability in a time of a pandemic Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Samantha Vlcek
Purpose Framed within the bioecological model, this autoethnographic case study explores the author’s experiences as a working mother of two children with disability prior to, during and after emerging from compulsory remote learning arrangements in Victoria, Australia due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this paper is to address this issue. The intention of this paper is to share the author's
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Young people and post-pandemic futures: scenario planning as a radical politics of hope Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Peter Kelly, Seth Brown, James Goring
Purpose In this paper we report on the outcomes of a scenario planning project in Melbourne's (Australia) inner northern suburbs, which was undertaken in the context of an extended lockdown during Melbourne's second wave of COVID-19 infections. In this project, the researchers sought to identify the ways in which young people and youth service providers understood the challenges that the pandemic was
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Making sense of a relational model within artistic creation (RMAC) through interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) Qualitative Research Journal Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Telma João Santos
Purpose The case study is inspired in Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to make sense of a Relational Model within Artistic Creation (RMAC) developed by the author a long time in their artistic and research practices. Design/methodology/approach An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is considered within a case study where the author is simultaneously researcher and participant