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Towards a natural semiotics for centralising ‘out of this world’ images in research with children Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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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Parental Financial Assistance and Psychological Well-Being Among Korean Emerging Adults: Pressure from and Fulfillment of Parental Career Expectations as Mediators Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) 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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Social Media Use as an Impulsive ‘Escape From Freedom’ Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Phil Reed, Will Haas
It has been suggested that avoiding choice represents an anxiety-avoidance strategy, which has not been investigated in the context of social media. To this end, the current study explored the rela...
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Malpractice Lawsuits Relating to Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Kasim Qureshi, Muhammad U. Farooq, Philip B. Gorelick
Background and PurposeMedical-legal claims for malpractice relating to the use of alteplase for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) are usually for failure to treat rather than for complications. The adven...
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The potential politics of the porous city Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Theresa Enright, Nathan Olmstead
This article discusses the concept of porosity and what it might offer critical urbanism. It engages recent scholarly and practical writing on the “porous city,” outlining three sets of contributio...
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MRI Does Not Improve Inter- or Intrarater Reliability for Hip Arthritis Grading Systems Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 W. Michael Pullen, Kinsley Pierre, Ivan Wong, Stephen K. Aoki, T. Sean Lynch, Richard C. Mather, III, Olufemi R. Ayeni, J.W. Thomas Byrd, Marc R. Safran
Background:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and radiographs are often utilized in assessing for preoperative osteoarthritis in patients undergoing hip preservation surgery.Purpose:To determin...
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Results of Endoscopic Labral Repair With Concomitant Gluteus Medius and/or Minimus Repair Compared With Outcomes of Labral Repair Alone: A Matched Comparative Cohort Analysis at Minimum 2-Year Follow-up Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Nolan S. Horner, Reagan S. Chapman, Jordan H. Larson, Shane J. Nho
Background:There is a paucity of information available to clinicians on outcomes of patients undergoing endoscopic surgery for labral repairs and femoroacetabular impingement syndrome with simultan...
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Axial Compressive Loading Attenuates Early Osteoarthritis by Reducing Subchondral Bone Remodeling Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Jianqun Wu, Yonghao Pan, Yangyi Yu, Qihao Yang, Qisong Liu, Yang Liu, Jinhao Zhong, Linhao Fu, Haotian Cai, Chao Liu, Guangheng Li
Background:Mechanical loading and alendronate (ALN) can be used as noninvasive physical therapy methods for osteoarthritis (OA). However, the timing and efficacy for treatments are unknown.Purpose:...
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Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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 3.096) 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...
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Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Beate Bursta, Trine Kvidal-Røvik, Outi Rantala
This article addresses the methodological aspects of a multi-voiced, collaborative ethnographic research process, in particular how video can enhance and amplify this research endeavour. The author...
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Translating Interviews, interpreting lives: bi-lingual research analysis informing less westernised views of international student mobility Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Zhao Qun, Neil Carey
There are increasing instances in which researchers study their migrant co-nationals in one language but report their research findings in another language. This raises significant issues regarding...
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Birds of a feather (don’t always) flock together: Critical reflexivity of ‘Outsiderness’ as an ‘Insider’ doing qualitative research with one’s ‘Own People’ Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Edward Ademolu
The article presents self-reflexive elaborations of negotiating ‘outsider’ positionalities as an ‘insider’ conducting a qualitative study of first-and-second-generation Nigerian diaspora communitie...
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A novice inquiry into unique adequacy Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Emily Hofstetter
In this paper, I question how a researcher might fulfil the unique adequacy requirement when studying novices in a setting in which the researcher is already a member. Since novices by definition l...
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Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether? Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Anne W Rawls, Michael Lynch
This article focuses on various ethnographic procedures and findings in ethnomethodology (EM) and conversation analysis (CA), addressing the question of how EM and CA relate to ethnography. Given t...
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Why do people participate in research interviews? Participant orientations and ethical contracts in interviews with victims of interpersonal violence Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Anja Bredal, Kari Stefansen, Margunn Bjørnholt
Researchers are increasingly interested in why people want to participate in qualitative interview studies, particularly what they hope to gain from participating. The present paper contributes to ...
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Doing ethnomethodological ethnography. Moving between autoethnography and the phenomenon in “hybrid studies” of taiji, ballet, and yoga Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Clemens Eisenmann, Robert Mitchell
Based on the authors’ ethnographies in the fields of taiji, ballet, and yoga, this article outlines and reflects the theoretical and empirical scope of what we mean by “ethnomethodological ethnogra...
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Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Alex Dennis
There is a fruitful tension in ethnomethodological work. On the one hand, real-world data are used to rein in analytical privilege. On the other, conceptual discussions necessarily take place in a ...
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Ethnographer as creation: A Whiteheadian interpretation of the ethnographic subject Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Elina Paju
This article examines the dynamic process constituting the researcher-subject in ethnographic fieldwork. Applying the theoretical framework of AN Whitehead AN (1964) The Concept of Nature: The Tarn...
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A Bergsonian analysis of time in qualitative research: Understanding lived experiences of street homeless people in Moscow Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Brian McDonough, Svetlana Stephenson
Understanding of how time is experienced is essential when conducting qualitative research. This article explores how time seemingly stands still, speeds up, slows down, rewinds and fast-forwards f...
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How to zig-zag between digital methods and traditional methods in ethnography Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Torben Elgaard Jensen
The increasing availability of digital resources is an opportunity as well as a challenge for ethnographers who seek to incorporate ‘the digital’ into their field studies. This article is an attemp...
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Fieldwork, participation, and unique-adequacy-in-action Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Robin James Smith
This article is concerned with the ethnomethodological principle of unique adequacy. The unique adequacy requirement of methods requires that the researcher gains ‘vulgar competency’ in the practic...
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Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-10-16 Mianna Meskus, Emilia Tikka
Recent studies in design research and science and technology studies (STS) have investigated how speculative thinking might be applied in empirical contexts. A unifying feature of speculative appro...
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Future memory work: unsettling temporal Othering through speculative research practices Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Anne Chahine
This article introduces ‘future memory work’ as a conceptual framework and speculative practice to unsettle the temporal hierarchies that are intrinsically tied to the anthropological project and t...
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Giving back and the moral logics of economic relations Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Ian Russell
This paper uses David Graeber’s work on the moral grounds of economic relations as a vantage point from which to reflect on the ethics of giving back in field research, drawing on my own fieldwork ...
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Ethnomethodological ethnography: Historical, conceptual, and methodological foundations Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Christian Meier zu Verl, Christian Meyer
This text discusses the relationship between ethnomethodology and ethnography and sketches what can be called an ethnomethodological ethnography. To do so, it shows that Garfinkel and his collabora...
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Methods for more-than-human wellbeing: A collaborative journey with object interviews Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Holly Thorpe, Julie Brice, Anoosh Soltani, Mihi Nemani, Grace O’Leary
Articulating the complexities of relational wellbeing can be challenging at the best of times, and even more complex during periods of heightened stress and uncertainty. Taking inspiration from fem...
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Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Janine Natalya Clark
This Note utilises the idea of ‘smellwalks’ as a novel way of engaging with qualitative data. Based on a larger study of victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, it argues that smell...
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The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Annett Bochmann
This article addresses the sociology and practices of translation. The main argument is that translation work should be understood in ethnomethodological terms as an indexical, social, and interact...
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Retraction Notice: "I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan" Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-08-22
At the request of the Journal Editors and the Publisher, the following note has been retracted and removed:
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Publisher's Notice Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-08-10
Original Article: Karl Andersson. I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan [published online first April 26, 2022]. Qualitative Research. 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941221096600)
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Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Sarah Quinton, Daniela Treveri Gennari, Silvia Dibeltulo
Although there is an ageing population in Europe which acts as an increasingly influential social and economic force, there remains limited scholarship concerning the involvement of older people in...
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Enhancing participatory research with young children through comic-illustrated ethnographic field notes Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Christina Tatham-Fashanu
Conducting research with young participants presents numerous challenges, particularly in terms of representation as the researcher endeavours to listen to children’s voices in order to understand ...
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Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Bethan Harries
This paper examines how sexual harassment is often mediated through the making of imagined complicities that are constructed to imply that an alliance/compliance underpins the relationship and ‘jus...
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Online synchronous focus group interviews: Practical considerations Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Romy F Willemsen, Jiska J Aardoom, Niels H Chavannes, Anke Versluis
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a sudden shift was warranted from face-to-face to digital interviewing. This shift is in line with the existing trend of digitalization. However, limited literature is available on how to conduct focus group interviews online successfully. This research note provides practical guidelines, tips, and considerations for setting up and conducting online synchronous focus groups
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Managing neutrality, rapport, and antiracism in qualitative interviews Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Tianhao Zhang, Ryo Okazawa
This study examines interviewers’ practices in managing conflicting institutional expectations of neutrality and rapport in interview interaction which are complicated by the normative expectation of antiracism. By applying conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis to sequences of interaction after interviewees’ possibly racist talk, we demonstrate that the interviewer deploys various
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Absence, multiplicity and the boundaries of research? Reflections on online asynchronous focus groups Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Ana Estrada-Jaramillo, Mike Michael, Hannah Farrimond
During the COVID 19 pandemic, Online Asynchronous Focus Groups (OAFG) through WhatsApp were conducted to explore women’s experiences in the context of Congenital Syphilis prevention in Colombia. This paper discusses issues raised by the OAFGs (not least in relation to face-to-face focus groups). After a review of the literature on online and offline focus groups, there is a consideration of some key
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Ethically important moments: Researching the intimate lives of adults labeled/with intellectual disabilities Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Alan Santinele Martino
People labeled/with intellectual disabilities are rarely given the opportunity to “speak” about their sexual and romantic experiences on their own behalf. Persisting stereotypes and (over)protectionism sometimes serve as social mechanisms that silence disabled people in knowledge creation. Although further protections need to be implemented, people labeled/with intellectual disabilities must have an
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Stop-motion storytelling: Exploring methods for animating the worlds of rare genetic disease Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Richard Gorman, Bobbie Farsides, Tony Gammidge
Qualitative research is increasingly challenged to think creatively and critically about how accounts of lived experience might be collected, collated, curated, and disseminated. In this article, w...
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Online, offline, hybrid: Methodological reflection on event ethnography in (post-)pandemic times Qualitative Research (IF 3.096) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Nona Schulte-Römer, Friederike Gesing
This paper develops a methodological framework for event-ethnographic research in online and offline settings based on the authors’ ethnographic experiences in the fields of environmental governanc...