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Authors:Alice B. M. Vadrot; Paul Dunshirn, Arne Langlet, Simon J. Fellinger, Silvia C. Ruiz-Rodríguez, Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki27258University of Vienna, Austria Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Participant observation and collaborative field note-taking are increasingly being used to study global environmental meetings. However, taking field notes in these complex and dynamic settings is challenging. This is illustrated by multilateral ... Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-05-16T08:25:44Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941251341984
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Authors:Amani Karisa; Lydia Namatende-Sakwa, Moses NgwareHuman Development Theme, 107883African Population Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. This reflective article centres on the controversy surrounding the practice of compensating research participants, drawing on insights gained from data collection experiences in rural, non-affluent schools in Kenya. The practice of going to the field ‘... Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-05-16T08:09:57Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941251341990
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Authors:Audrey Gagnon; Tamta Gelashvili Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Research in certain fields of study may carry emotional and safety-related risks. For example, scholars in the field of extremism and terrorism often navigate potentially uncomfortable or unsafe environments, face an emotional toll when exposed to extreme ... Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-05-15T08:42:25Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941251341992
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Authors:Margaret McKeonIndependent Scholar; Canada Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Land-based métissage is an arts-based framework for confronting colonial and ecological violence, which builds on literary métissage, a research praxis comprising interwoven autobiographical texts. Within colonial contexts, while often separated, ... Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-05-09T07:18:57Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941251337243
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Authors:Jakub Zahora125376University of New York in Prague; Praha, Czech Republic Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. This paper engages discussions on how empathy figures in research conduct. Its starting point is that while empathetic connections with our interlocutors are usually valorized as both an ethical stance and a way to better relate and understand people we ... Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-05-08T07:51:09Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941251337898
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Authors:Becky Shaw; Jo Ray Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. School Photo Dayused art intervention as research method in a transdisciplinary project exploring children's experiences of school. Artist researchers invited junior school children to work with them to make portraits of themselves, in a process that ... Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-05-05T07:08:36Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941251337875
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Authors:Janine Natalya ClarkUniversity of Birmingham; UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. This Note is a creative piece of writing that flows freely and weaves together different thoughts and memories. The initial idea for it stemmed from my reflections about disability and my relationship with edges. Disability, however, is only one part of ... Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-04-01T06:03:15Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941251331457
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Authors:Ruth Barley, Caron Carter, Arwa Omar; Caron Carter, Arwa Omar7314Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. In March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic was rife and global lockdowns were implemented research restrictions were also put in place curtailing established research practice with children. These restrictions required researchers to reflexively navigate the interplay between responsiveness and responsibility to ensure that ethical processes continued to be fluid and co-produced. Teasing out the ethical dilemmas, this article examines the enforced online research experience with children during this time to show its complexities and idiosyncratic nature. It draws upon data examples from a pilot case study project with ten 7- to 11-year-olds investigating how children maintained their friendships during lockdown in the United Kingdom. Data were collected through a range of creative participatory research methods accompanied by an open-ended online unstructured interview. This article has implications for researchers and educators for future online data collection with children as it reflects on the ethical maze of doing research with children online. Reflections provide new insights into how allowing children to choose their creative method facilitated the production of agentic knowledge. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-02-14T07:02:54Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941251317710
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Authors:Louisa Smith Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. While qualitative researchers on sensitive topics spend significant and important time assessing and mitigating risks for their research participants, there is much less focus on risks to researchers doing this work. Sensitive qualitative research requires researchers to empathise with participants talking about some of life's most challenging moments, and exposure to this can be deeply emotional and even traumatic for researchers. Researchers need a range of strategies to care for themselves throughout the research process. Currently, verbal and written strategies in line with researcher critical reflection and reflexivity are often advocated as key ways of mitigating the emotional impact of research. There is increasing evidence that arts-based approaches facilitate different kinds of reflections on emotional and embodied experiences. This paper describes how the arts-based method, body mapping, can be used by researchers to support researcher reflection on qualitative research. The process of creating, describing and reflecting on the embodied experience of doing the research through body mapping facilitated not only an engagement with the emotions elicited during the project but also illuminated absences and future actions. The paper provides clear guidelines for other researchers wishing to try the approach and also points to the need for institutional and structural responsibility for researcher health. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-02-14T07:02:37Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241308687
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Authors:Stratis Andreas Efthymiou; UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. This article addresses issues arising while conducting interviews that cross risky social and political boundaries. Drawing on the author's experiences interviewing representatives of the two major ultra-nationalist political parties in Cyprus for a case study, I discuss this type of research's intended and unintended implications and consequences by focusing on rapport, trust and risk. The case study illustrates how these factors became the most critical elements in conducting interviews with these radical groups. Lessons learned from this case study can serve as valuable methodological guides for future research in similar contexts. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-02-10T07:10:55Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241306220
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Authors:Wolfgang Minatti, Frédéric Guillaume Gass-Quintero; Frédéric Guillaume Gass-Quintero Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. As ethics of fieldwork gain prominence, discussions in qualitative methods have increasingly focused on the relationship between vulnerability and fieldwork practices. Existing literature provides ethical prescriptions and safety recommendations for fieldworkers in ‘dangerous places’. However, it falls short of addressing the analytic stakes created by experiences of vulnerability in the field. This is problematic because it limits the fieldworker's reflexivity, preventing them from examining unsettling situations as relevant data. To address this, the article builds on an understanding of vulnerability as a type of situation. We argue that fieldworkers gain an analytic advantage by reflecting on experiences shaped by situations of vulnerability, offering insights into the social context under investigation and the researcher's position in it. The article demonstrates the epistemic value of vulnerability by drawing on fieldwork on the Colombian conflict and peace process. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-02-03T05:17:56Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241308712
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Authors:Malin Bäckman; Finland; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. In this methodological reflection, I illustrate how participant-generated photos take on different roles throughout the research process. The photos discussed form part of a study focusing on ‘sustainable’ everyday practices. I account for how the photos act as windows into meanings of sustainability, as windows into sustainable materialities and as artefacts influencing the research process. The aim is to share insights gained as a result of grappling with photos, in terms of their roles – as well as what the photos portray. By bringing materialities to the fore, the photos made me reconsider the role of material elements within everyday practices, which I have come to understand as dynamic and vibrant. I argue that photos, like material elements in practices, provoke and have effects and can help foreground the often taken for granted mundane materialities entangled with everyday life. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-01-17T04:16:18Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241308710
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Authors:Rhiannon Barker, Ruth Plackett, Anna Price, Krysia Canvin, Greg Hartwell, Chris Bonell; Ruth Plackett, Anna Price, Krysia Canvin, Greg Hartwell, Chris Bonell Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. This opinion piece emerged from a collaboration of mental health researchers working on the National Institute of Health Research 3-schools mental health programme in underserved communities. The aim is to encourage debate and reflection on the challenges encountered with university research ethics committees when undertaking qualitative research with vulnerable young people. We explore the tension between principles of safeguarding and protection of research participants, on the one hand, and the potential for this oversight to become obstructive and thus to effectively stifle the voices and experiences of an already marginalised population, on the other hand. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-01-17T03:14:45Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241306241
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Authors:Sarah Dennis; UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Inspired by the themes emerging from a contemporary dance video, this paper proposes a theoretical framework for seeking consent from prospective participants in an ethnographic study of child protection court cases (care proceedings) in the family court in England. Research evidence to date suggests that this is a formal environment that is often alienating and confusing for families. As a qualified social worker and researcher, I draw on my ongoing doctoral research to explore some of the challenges of negotiating participant consent in the highly emotive space of the courtroom, where life-changing decisions are made about families’ future lives and relationships. Here, I focus on how the process of seeking consent can remain ethical, meaningful and responsive under such unpredictable and pressurised conditions by creating a research space that resists coercion through the power of ‘no’. A core problematic is how participants can be encouraged to say ‘no’ to research when they may be feeling vulnerable and disempowered by family court processes and structures. The complexities and ethics of the dance video capture some of the tensions and synergies that co-exist in these researcher-researched relationships. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-01-16T12:38:27Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241297354
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Authors:Maria Correia, Sarah Alexis, Aleksandra Dulic; Sarah Alexis, Aleksandra Dulic Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. This article describes co-design and Indigenous methodologies applied in Waterways, Past, Present, and Future, a research inquiry and immersive media exhibition on human water relations carried out in the Syilx Okanagan First Nation territory of British Columbia, Canada. As a backdrop, we provide an overview of collaborative research, co-design, and Indigenous methodologies principles and then describe how these edicts were reflected in Waterway's praxis. The co-leadership of the research team, the cross-cultural interdisciplinary composition of the team, the decolonizing frame applied throughout the inquiry and design process, and the timeframe for team members to carry out personalized and collective multi-layered preparation were key ingredients in the application of Indigenous methodologies. Co-design principles observed in Waterways included prioritizing design justice and incorporating reflexivity and flexibility, iteration, and emergence in the design process. These methodological considerations can lead to more impactful co-design and cross-cultural research collaboration in Indigenous settings, which is currently a priority in Canada's ongoing reconciliation process. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-01-16T02:06:25Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241306234
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Authors:Ash Watson; Australia Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Vibes are having a moment and academics seem increasingly serious about understanding whatever the vibe is. Many qualitative methodological approaches are already very vibey. This is especially true of those that engage with affects and atmospheres, social and sociotechnical imaginaries, and materialisms and the more-than-human. In this article, I reflect on these approaches and outline some vibes-based methods. I discuss how vibes-based methods help us consider and work with the generative ambiguities of social life. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-01-13T05:32:43Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241308707
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Authors:Ryan Nolan; UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. This article navigates the confluence of advanced generative AI tools, the intensifying demands of academic research, and the concept of slow scholarship. It employs the artwork ‘Can’t Help Myself’ by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu as a metaphor to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by researchers in this rapidly changing landscape. The discussion explores the surveillance nature of AI tools, the evolving demands of academia, and the implications for conducting qualitative research. The article proposes a synthesis where AI tools can be harnessed to enable depth and deliberation in research, echoing the principles of slow scholarship. This perspective helps alleviate the fear of being overwhelmed by AI and shifts the focus to constructive engagement with these powerful tools. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-01-07T06:47:16Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241308696
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Authors:Tobias Kamelski, Francisco Olivos; Francisco Olivos Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. This article introduces the use of AI-replicas as an alternative to traditional anonymisation methods in image-based qualitative research. It emphasises the ethical and practical dilemmas posed by current anonymisation methods, such as distortion or loss of emotional and contextual information in images, and proposes the use of AI-replicas to preserve the integrity and authenticity of visual data while ensuring participant anonymity. The article outlines the technological foundations of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the practical application of Stable Diffusion to generate AI-replicas for anonymisation and fictionalisation purposes. Furthermore, it discusses the potential biases present in generative AI to suggest ways to mitigate these biases through careful prompt engineering and participatory approaches. The introduced approach aims to enhance ethical practices in visual research by providing a method that ensures participant anonymity without compromising the data's qualitative richness and interpretative validity. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2025-01-03T06:37:58Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241308705
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Authors:Johanna Söderström, Alice Junman, Markus Holdo; Uppsala, Sweden, , Markus Holdo, , Alice Junman8097Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. How does discomfort affect research interviewing' Recent contributions suggest that researchers do not always experience discomfort as problematic but also as productive. We explore our experiences of, and strategies for, uncomfortable interviews. Based on experiences of interviewing right-wing populist Twitter activists in the United States and Sweden, we make four claims. First, discomfort may arise throughout the research process with multiple origins, e.g. the content of the interviews, emotions expressed or held back, security concerns, and tensions between professional, social, and ethical norms. Second, we show that most of these concerns are not necessarily obstacles to overcome, but might contribute to more reflexive and insightful conversations depending on how and when they arise. Third, discomfort pinpoints tensions and dilemmas within our research projects, which may not always be resolvable. Fourth, discomfort can thus be productive as we learn, adapt, reconsider and articulate our research choices in the wake of discomfort. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-12-24T08:27:23Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241297344
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Authors:James Duggan, Stuart Dunne, Daniel O'Donnell; Stuart Dunne, Daniel O'Donnell5289Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Participatory research often claims to inspire and empower young people to change their lives and communities but what if the problems are entrenched, and the world remains intransigent' The article draws on Berlant's ideas of fantasy, cruel optimism and the impasse to navigate the ethics of mobilising and managing young people's aspirations for change in adverse, austerity contexts. Naming the youth participatory democratic project (YPDP) is a useful concept for understanding youth experiences of deflation in a creative, arts-based participatory project. The YPDP works with marginalised young people but is a professionalising, institutionalising fantasy that proscribes the transgressive activism and infrastructural practices of care and solidarity that such communities have required to realise change. To help navigate the impasse, the article presents two fantasies. One outlines the Mental Health Movement project, the other is an alternative and speculative youth state that builds infrastructures of support for young people to organise amidst adversity. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-12-24T08:12:22Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241306217
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Authors:Beth Cross; UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Whilst visual methods have increasing research use, visual reasoning has received less attention. Integration of health and social services require professionals to work with increasing coordination. Visual reasoning plays an important role in these complex skill sets and is under-theorized. This article focuses on visual reasoning within qualitative research in this professional context. Visual languages and the reasoning done with them often remain implicit, leading to confusion and underutilisation. Here, we investigate the use of metaphoric and diagrammatic visuals by a purposive sampling of key stakeholders discussing collaboration across integrated children's services. We analyse the function visual images played within our own interpretive negotiations as a research group and problematise why participants made extensive use of metaphoric reasoning whilst remaining critical of the effectiveness of diagrammatic visuals. Our original contribution is to highlight the role of abduction in visual reasoning within research analysis and within professional reflection. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-12-24T08:12:02Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241297562
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Authors:Gail Crimmins, Sarah Casey; Sarah Casey Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. The paper seeks to illuminate the limiting categorisations and hierarchical relationships between urban versus rural, slow versus fast research and between research methodologies, to reconsider notions of place and re-search (or searching and searching again) in a ‘rural’ Australian context. We illustrate these ideas by first examining the dynamic, productive nature of language and by demonstrating how language can be used to review and resist dominant and conservative beliefs and limiting categories. We also specifically consider how critical discourse analysis can reveal the discursive ‘Othering’ of both ‘the rural’ and women living in rural communities and catalyse a feminist narrative inquiry designed to hear and amplify the voices of a diversity of women living in southwest Queensland and how this seeds case studies crafted to enable women in rural, regional and remote communities to work achieve their storied vision and capacities. The paper finally demonstrates how over time (2019–ongoing), slow re-search processes, supported by relationality and trust, evolved, suggesting that discourse analysis, as analytical activism, can lay the foundations for sustained, engaged and relational re-search designed to expose and address entrenched gendered power imbalances and limiting binaries. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-12-24T08:11:42Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241297390
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Authors:Sarah Baker, Zelmarie Cantillon, Chelsea Evans; Zelmarie Cantillon, Chelsea Evans Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Zines have recently emerged as methodological tools in qualitative research seeking to deploy arts-based approaches that foreground agency, collaboration, creativity, affect and critique. This article reflects on the use of zine-making as method in a project focused on Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area, Norfolk Island. The article analyses seven methods used in making zine content: sticky notes, memory prompts, story completion, letter writing, interpretive text, conversations and participatory mapping. The article positions the project's multi-method approach to zine-making as a form of critical cultural justice inquiry. We discuss zine-making in terms of its sociable qualities, as well as its capacity to support representational belonging and a sense of ownership among participants over project outputs. As part of critical cultural justice inquiry, zine-making can enable ‘doing research otherwise’ – resisting extractivism and instead emphasising building relationships, engaging in dialogue and co-creating resources for hope and action. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-12-24T08:11:24Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241297376
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Authors:Ruchika Ranwa, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert; Suruchi Thapar-Björkert Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. The important role of gatekeepers in accessing and negotiating the field has been well established. In this research note, we highlight an underexplored dimension of gatekeeping in relation to our fieldwork on the Kalbeliya community of Rajasthan in India. Existing scholarship on the Kalbeliyas has mainly focused on the politics of heritage recognition of Kalbeliya dance of India, which was recognized as Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 2010. Nonetheless, no significant research exists on the methodological challenges encountered in this field. Our navigations in the field uncovered an aspect deeply embedded in arguably, the multi-layered nature of gatekeeping – the blurred boundaries and shifting positionalities between gatekeepers and respondents, with respondents acting as gatekeepers and gatekeepers as respondents. In this research, key respondents were Kalbeliya women dancers and other respondents included state officials, Manganiyars and Kalbeliya men, who acted as gatekeepers in accessing Kalbeliya dancers. These shifting positionalities also exposed their gendered power dynamics, which shaped our methodological navigations in the field. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-12-18T01:24:15Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241306417
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Authors:Lorien S Jordan; USA Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Qualitative inquirers are increasingly exploring the possibilities and promise of web-based research. From re-envisioning the meaning of face-to-face interaction through online collaboration platforms to harvesting organically occurring digital content, these data generation interactions occur on platforms designed for purposes other than inquiry. Researchers who work within these platformed field sites must be clear on the affordances of these imperfect and continually evolving ecosystems. In this article, I engage in a postdigital anti/colonial critique of platforms to outline the contours of their relational-cultural affordances as distinctly colonial and white. From this engagement, I invite a dialogue on the risks researchers take when assuming a platform is universal and, subsequently, our digital research on these platforms are neutral endeavors. I conclude with a series of critically reflexive prompts for researchers to consider when engaging in digital research. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-12-18T01:22:37Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241306235
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Authors:Maddie Neufeld, Srikala Naraian; Srikala Naraian Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. This paper attends to the creation and effects of arts-based artifacts when inquiring into teacher embodiment within practices of inclusive education. Taking a postqualitative approach, we engaged in “making” data with four teacher participants, including an embodied poem, digital boards, and an affective storyboard. These artifacts reflect our conversations with participants and present portals back into them, enlivening and alerting us to the process and qualities of the inquiry. We discuss our process of getting lost with the multimodal artifacts in a way that allowed us to open up to the emergent properties of inquiry through a refusal of certainty, temporal disruptions, and an entangled emergence. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-12-18T01:19:19Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241306218
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Authors:Thekla Anastasiou; UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. In this paper I explore ideas such as mothering, caring, rules, and responsibilities towards a toddler, whilst methodologically, being influenced by a body of work around a feminist ethics of care. This piece attempts to understand how as a mother who is influenced by academic readings, I can support my child's independence and remain sensitive to her needs while setting some boundaries to keep her safe and prepared for the outside world. To do that, I have drawn on feminist New Materialist and posthuman non-anthropocentric ethics, where researchers continually challenge the assumption of boundaries, for example between agency and humans, ethics and politics, autonomy and dependence. Being entangled with my own ‘theoretical’ trajectory - readings, teachings and my own cultural values, beliefs; personal and professional identity and the practicalities and challenges of the lived experience with my daughter, in this research assemblage, the aim is to apply ideas from a feminist ethics of care to help me understand how to attune with my child more carefully in order to balance the notion of boundary-setting during sleep routines while respecting her need of autonomy. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-12-10T08:14:39Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241298096
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Authors:Nora Söderberg; Italy Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. ‘Following’ methodologies have advanced qualitative research by offering tools for studying phenomena spanning multiple geographical locations, economic markets and institutional settings. But how does one ‘follow’ phenomena that are disrupted and torn apart or that disappear during the research process' In this article, I borrow the concept of chokepoints from Logistics literature to chart a pathway for multi-sited approaches to follow relations from sites of disruption. Bringing multi-sited research into conversation with critical geography, Logistics scholarship and anthropologies of infrastructure, this article develops new methodological tools for studying relationality. Specifically, I suggest a three-fold methodology for following disruptions to their source, historicising how relations came to be and borrowing from Donna Haraway, ‘staying with the trouble’ of inertias, temporary stops and hurdles. The methodology is illustrated through the example of the Panama Canal, a key site of disruption from which we can follow phenomena that are neither completely fluid nor fixed. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-12-10T08:14:25Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241297515
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Authors:Carli Friedman, Aleksa Owen, Laura VanPuymbrouck; Aleksa Owen, Laura VanPuymbrouck Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Through ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence platforms, large language models’ (LLMs’) applications have expanded across daily life, including research. Yet, the qualitative paradigm's methodological assumption of socially mediated interpretivism is at odds with how LLMs operate. Qualitative research is appropriate for inquiry where conceptual development and interpretation are required. Specifically, Disability Studies scholars have used qualitative research to understand more about disabled peoples’ experiences. Like other marginalized identities, disability is often misunderstood pejoratively. We offer concerns about whether LLMs can address key qualitative analysis markers, contextualizing these concerns within disability research. To test these concerns, we assigned two LLMs, ChatGPT and Gemini, coding tasks using existing secondary de-identified data. We found LLMs were not able to produce codes that were high quality, credible, or consistent, and could not parse data from research participants with certain disabilities. We discuss implications for future methodological decisions and policies. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-12-06T07:15:29Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241297375
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Authors:Samantha Majic, Melissa Ditmore; Melissa Ditmore Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Vulnerability – understood broadly as susceptibility to harm – factors into many social science research projects, including those that are qualitative, involve collaborations between scholars and members of the group under study, and engage with online research techniques and technologies. However, guidance for how researchers and communities may understand, navigate, and mitigate vulnerability in such projects is often scattered across disciplines, making it difficult for researchers to discern relevant best practices. To further understandings of vulnerability here, we reflect in this article on our experience with a mixed-method project, where we partnered with sex workers across the United States to study their experiences with the online platforms they use to facilitate and conduct their work. Based on our encounters with university bureaucracies and research fraud over the course of this project, we argue broadly that vulnerability is not a fixed, inherent attribute of certain research participants; instead, it emerges through various relations and events in the field, and all parties involved in a research project may experience it. To illustrate this argument, we demonstrate how university bureaucratic practices and research fraud may variously harm both participants and researchers by undermining community collaborations, data collection, and researcher safety and well-being. In conclusion we suggest best practices for online research and for universities, so they may better protect researchers and the integrity of such studies. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-12-05T07:30:44Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241297417
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Authors:Miriama Cribb, Jason Paul Mika, Sarah Leberman, April Bennett; Jason Paul Mika, Sarah Leberman, April Bennett Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. This paper proposes using Tupua te Kawa – a set of Indigenous values at law – together with tribal, kaupapa Māori (Māori approach) and Indigenous methodologies, to introduce a framework for facilitating non-Indigenous organisations’ engagement with and implementation of Indigenous knowledges, values and practices. The framework recognises that Tupua te Kawa, an outcome of giving legal personhood to the Whanganui River via Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Settlement Claims) Act 2017, can be a reorientation to Indigenous methodologies by non-Indigenous organisations. This paper provides strength-based examples of how non-Indigenous organisations can engage with Indigenous knowledges, values and practices appropriately and effectively through Indigenous methodologies. The paper illustrates the critical role Indigenous methodologies play when connecting Indigenous frameworks to Indigenous worldviews, peoples, knowledges, values and practices. To highlight the criticality of honouring Indigenous languages when seeking to understand Indigenous worldviews, te reo Māori (the Māori language) with translations is used throughout, which is necessary to receive the full benefit of the paper. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-11-25T01:45:43Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241297404
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Authors:Kathryn Roulston; Athens, USA Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-11-19T08:36:09Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241297307
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Authors:Ester Ehiyazaryan-White; Sheffield, UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Researching migrant and multilingual parents’ literacy practices with their children is ethically complex due to the dominant discourses of language and literacy which devalue such practices as irrelevant or deficient. Translanguaging theory and the related concept of translanguaging space offer opportunities to consider dialogue with multilingual parents differently, valuing their literacy practices in the interview space. Drawing on data from an artifactual literacies study with multilingual parents, the paper discusses three aspects which contributed to reframing the interview as translanguaging affirmative space: the value of artefacts brought by the parents in relating their lived experiences; the role of semantic maps as shared multilingual writing; and the use of multilingual transcribing. It is argued that through these practices, a translanguaging affirmative space was co-produced which contributed to reducing the power imbalance inherent in research. It is further argued that such translanguaging space can be co-produced by researcher and participant, even when they do not share a home language. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-11-19T08:04:23Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241297304
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Authors:Leiha Edmonds, Elizabeth Ann Olson; Elizabeth Ann Olson Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Caregiving happens in time and place, but geographers’ methodologies to explore where care happens receive scant attention in the literature on caregiving. In this article, we explain our development of a methodological approach to recording and analyzing the dynamics of everyday family caregiving by children and adolescents and how caregiving produces places and spaces that are invested with experiences and emotions. The methodology, which we call Versatile Everyday Emotion Mapping (VEEMethod), draws on the philosophy of care ethics, theoretical frameworks from critical youth and feminist geography and feminist GIS, and participatory practices tailored to working with youth. Referring to data produced by young participants in a multiyear, single-sited study of the everyday experiences of caregiving youth in the United States, we review how VEEMethod offers a robust geographic method and critically consider the challenges of comparing and analyzing incongruous mapping outputs. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-11-19T08:03:44Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241297297
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Authors:Sally Baker, Rachel Burke, Bonita Cabiles, Alison Fox, Tebeje Molla; Rachel Burke, Bonita Cabiles, Alison Fox, Tebeje Molla Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Although gaining ethical approval is a conventional and established requirement for academic scholarship, institutional approaches remain subject to sustained critique. While not questioning the legitimacy of institutional ethical procedures, the dominance of legal frameworks and a focus on entry to ‘the field’ is inflexible and irresponsive to ethical complexities in practice. This is particularly evident in situations where participants experience ongoing trauma, marginalisation, and social and political precarity, or settings that we refer to in this paper as ‘fragile contexts’. Responding to such ethical dilemmas, this article draws on Guillemin and Gillam’s (2004) notions of ‘ethics-in-practice’ and ‘ethically important moments’ to examine how doctoral candidates and their supervisors navigate the compliance requirements of institutional ethics vis-à-vis the requirements of ethics-in-practice. Our findings foreground the need to attend to the linguistic and discursive challenges associated with research in fragile contexts, the temporalities of vulnerability, the management of community expectations, and a humbling of researchers and their institutional research ethics committees to avoid compounding injustices and power imbalances. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-11-11T06:37:34Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241288178
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Authors:Marcel Obst Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. The close-up study of far-right groups often involves an intense emotional burden for researchers working with participants they dislike or even feel threatened by. This article proposes to think of the ‘disliked’ as a category of participants whom the researcher finds ideologically or morally objectionable due to their exclusionary attitudes. It calls for an approach of situated ethics to account for the particularities and complexities of disliked groups that can remain uncharted if studied from a distance. Furthermore, the article addresses the need to understand ethics and safety as entangled when researching disliked groups, since researchers must cautiously examine and handle the overlap between them. To explore this topic, the article draws on in-depth fieldwork with anti-gender groups in Spain and engages with the experience of empathising with people whose discourse and beliefs challenge the researcher's own well-being. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-11-05T08:22:36Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241288194
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Authors:Lauren Kogen; USA Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Participatory work with marginalized groups claims to bridge a divide between researchers or project implementers (outsiders) and those with whom they are working to create social change (insiders). A debate within this field is whether participation's primary function is to support participants taking ownership over social change in their communities (an empowerment approach) or to garner feedback, particularly during the evaluation stage, in order for implementers to more efficiently assess project goals and adjust project design (a so-called ‘practical’ approach). This paper makes the claim that a greater focus on theory building through participatory data analysis can help bridge the divide between the empowerment and practicality camps. It does so by simultaneously embracing the assumptions behind empowerment ideologies (that community members hold the key to understanding and changing policies and systems) and behind more ‘practical’ approaches (that participation is immensely useful and practical for creating and improving interventions). I discuss a participatory evaluation of a US intimate partner violence intervention in order to demonstrate how participation supports theory building, including the crucial findings that emerged which the researcher, as an outsider, had missed. I offer raw excerpt analysis as a method to support these goals, and I discuss best practices for those using the method. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-11-05T07:16:45Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241288207
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Authors:Moses Adjei, Annie Hau Nung Chan; Annie Hau Nung Chan Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Scholars have increasingly highlighted the usefulness of new materialist theories and methodologies in attempts to address the perceived shortcomings of conventional theories inspired by social constructionism and post-structuralism. Contributing to these discussions, we utilize a new materialist theory which rests on a monistic ontology drawn from Spinozian and Deleuzian assemblage theory to examine the constitutive role of material elements (e.g. audio recorders, video cameras, and dress/shirts worn during interviews), spatial, and discursive forces in co-creating fluid nonstatic researcher positionalities in qualitative research process. This article is part of a larger ethnographic study conducted by the first author among fisherfolk in Ghana's coastal fishing communities. Our results show that the researcher's fluid positionalities during interview encounters were brought to bear and sustained in space and time through the joint effort of material, discursive, and spatial forces. As qualitative researchers seek ways to ensure better understanding of their study communities through intimate interactions, an attention to the assemblage of material-discursive forces in interview encounters may highlight some of the opportunities and obstacles in qualitative inquiry beyond human agency and negotiations. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-11-05T07:15:06Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241288186
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Authors:Elaine de Vos, Louise Mansfield, Neil Stephens; Louise Mansfield, Neil Stephens Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. In this paper, we present a novel qualitative research method that uses a boxer's kit bag and the items contained within, to explore the relationship that participants have with activity-specific material items. These immersive sensory encounters explore the participants’ experiences of interacting with their kit and how their kit contributes to identity formation and their sense of belonging in the boxing gym. This method contributes to the field of material methods and elicitation by using everyday objects to stimulate the expression of embodied experiences. By observing participants interacting with their boxing kit and encouraging reflective attention to how the body responds to each item, we can examine how objects can both promote a sense of belonging in the boxing gym and support the narration of transitions in and out of character. This method could be used to explore other sports, occupations or activities which require activity-specific objects. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-10-17T08:18:10Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241288203
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Authors:Emma Huddlestone; Norwich, UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. In recent years academics have questioned how findings may be presented in ways that centre the complex, rich and nuanced reflections heard and felt in qualitative research – and if this is even possible. We are witnessing a creative turn as ‘data’ is being translated into art-forms to reach wider audiences in sensory formats. Such endeavours open opportunities to move beyond the confines of conventional practices of academic writing, creating space for rethinking how we might attempt to show the textured and felt stories shared by participants. In the spirit of these endeavours, this article explores the opportunities afforded by authoring life history interviews into fictive diaries. Through doing so, this article argues that research could be animated in this way to show the complex emotionality and temporality that underpins participant narratives, perhaps even evoking an emotional, empathetic, response in the reader as they are drawn into participants’ stories. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-10-14T08:38:57Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241288190
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Authors:Rhianna Garrett; UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. This article explores how multiple methodologies can create new spaces to reimagine anti-racism work and enhance engagement in anti-racist education. Through the combination of two methodologies, namely design-based research (DBR) and gamification, the paper describes the design formation of the game Quest for Equity, a collaborative and engaging speaking tool. The game improved player engagement and effective collaboration, while challenging performative and racist practices in higher education. This paper provides methodological contributions such as the unique use of facilitation observation and presents an interesting way to extract elements of multiple research approaches to suit contextual goals, reimagining new solutions to historical and contemporary problems. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-10-08T07:36:11Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241288198
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Authors:Hannah Deakin-Smith, Jan Flaherty, Amanda Coffey, Jane Pilcher, Eve Makis; Jane Pilcher, Jan Flaherty, , Amanda Coffey, , Eve Makis Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. In this article we argue that theoretical and empirical insights from the sociology of people's names can enrich qualitative researchers’ decision-making about, and descriptions of, their practices of (re)naming participants as well as inform methodological debates about these practices. We review the research politics of participants’ names and outline how issues of anonymisation and pseudonymisation can be thought through using sociological theorising about and empirical research on people's names. In illustration of the value of this perspective, we discuss (re)naming of participants in our study of names in adoption. We describe the challenges that arise around anonymisation and pseudonymisation when the topic is potentially sensitive and where people's names are the focus. We draw out the broader significance of our findings to encourage researchers, regardless of their topic, to better reflect on and account for choices made about why and how research participants are (re)named. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-10-01T09:13:33Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241277729
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Authors:Maria Thuelmark, Susanna Heldt Cassel, Tara Duncan; Susanna Heldt Cassel, Tara Duncan3317Dalarna University, Sweden Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. This note tells a story of working participant observation. It shares a narrative of how working as a housekeeper, as part of a project about dignity and decent work, opened up the researchers to stories beyond the work tasks. The note weaves a tale around one particular worker, and highlights how as researchers, being embedded, and embodied within their research allowed for insights and reflections that a “common” interview would not have gained. It highlighted the positives and tensions of being “in between” an insider and an outsider as a researcher. The note concludes with a reminder or perhaps a caution that we are all, bodies, minds, our “selves,” part of the research process and the necessity to be reflexive, thoughtful, and engaged with our research remains essential as we look to expand how we gain knowledge into (service) work and employment. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-10-01T08:27:33Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241277743
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Authors:Emma Jackson, Andy Lee; Andy Lee Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Drawing on research with a ten-pin bowling league in London, this paper seeks to add to discussions about remaking place through video methods by exploring (1) the challenges involved in presenting both the perspectives of participants and recreating a sense of place through video methods; (2) how using different forms of video methods – together and in tandem – can address this challenge. Through discussion of this example, we set out how we assembled and reassembled video data in a range of ways for different modes of presentation, providing insights on how video techniques and modes of presentation both recreate and intervene in the social worlds and places that they seek to understand. In doing so, the paper contributes to discussions of how video methods might be used in more imaginative and lively ways in social research to foreground the sensory qualities and lived experience of places. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-09-25T08:50:16Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241277734
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Authors:Martin Zebracki, Emily Diamand, Aydan Greatrick; Emily Diamand, Aydan Greatrick Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 executing and reporting fieldwork. While attending to tensions between ‘academic’ and ‘creative’ writing, we examine how adopting different and alternative writing approaches can express diverse complexities of the field research process. We contribute to an understanding of CW as a dialectical catalyst, serving as a mode for reflecting on the relationships between the researcher and the researched within the field as well as a mode for analysing and disseminating fieldwork findings. By doing so, our study presents opportunities and limitations of CW as a critical methodology for generating situated knowledges about the field and for reimagining fieldwork. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-09-17T07:20:13Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241277731
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Authors:Harriet Larrington-Spencer, Ersilia Verlinghieri, Emma Lawlor, Rachel Aldred; Ersilia Verlinghieri, Emma Lawlor, Rachel Aldred4921University of Westminster, London, UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 been overlooked in scholarship; particularly the relationality of care, including care of the researcher. We provide four vignettes discussing our experiences of conducting 118 go-along interviews with residents living in or near London Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. Reflecting on care-full encounters, we highlight the role of reciprocity, solidarity, and mutual understanding, strengthened by the recognition of shared experiences. Reflecting on care-less encounters, we highlight how, by disrupting traditional research hierarchies, go-along interviews can expose marginalised and stigmatised researchers to abuse. Overall, our vignettes demonstrate that care is a relationally produced, shared accomplishment involving both the researcher and the participant. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-09-14T06:53:53Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241277747
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Authors:Jane Dickson; UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 raised about the capacity of students labelled as SEN to provide voluntary informed consent. In my contribution to this special issue, I use poetry to reflect on ethical issues in my study and the need to challenge perceptions of the vulnerable in order to fight for their rights to be heard and participate equitably in all aspects of society. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-09-13T06:41:30Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241277738
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Authors:Graham Grant, Heather Fulford, Peter Reid; Heather Fulford, Peter Reid1018Robert Gordon University, UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 classes. It draws on empirical examples to highlight strategies for undertaking broad and deep literature reviews and to present a pragmatic process for identifying, selecting, and undertaking interviews with members of the upper classes. Existing guidance on interview format is highlighted as being unsuitable. We argue for the need to allow for flexibility in interview structures ranging from fully structured to almost entirely unstructured, depending on the positionality and personality of the interviewee. We also explore how the presupposition of anonymity and confidentiality in the literature presents a dilemma for researching the upper classes that warrants wider debate. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-09-13T06:41:01Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241264461
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Authors:Andrea Cornwall; UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 own questions. The transparency facilitated by question cards clarifies the interview's purpose and reduces ambiguity. Additionally, question cards act as visual aids, aiding navigation and enabling both interviewer and interviewee to have a clear sight of the topics for discussion. Importantly, this technique levels the information playing field, granting all parties access to the interview's structure, questions and themes. Post-interview, question cards prove invaluable as prompts for coding and analysis, streamlining data extraction. As such, the research note suggests, the use of question cards has many potential benefits for the qualitative researcher. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-09-04T07:13:19Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241277749
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Authors:Laura Ramírez Rodríguez, Wolfgang Minatti; Wolfgang Minatti Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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, an assistant and a researcher address this gap analysing their relationship during a joint fieldwork experience in Colombia in 2021. We argue that the relation between researcher and research assistant should be conceived as being entangled in situations of vulnerability. We focus on vulnerability across and within the relation, highlighting the interactions of researchers and assistants’ positionalities and reflecting on how certain situations can heighten tensions of power and friendship. We show that a conceptualisation of the assistant–researcher relationship as conditioned by vulnerability allows us to consider the ethics arising from this relationship. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-09-04T07:12:50Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241277744
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Authors:Sharron FitzGerald; Political Research, University Paris 8, France Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 with affect theory. I use my fieldwork experience with a judicial gatekeeper and in conducting ethnographic observational research ‘behind the scenes of formal law’ to interrogate how bodies, emotions and affects inform power in the spaces of criminal law. Specifically, I approach bodies, emotions and affects as conceptual tools with which to interrogate how power transmits when I ‘enter’ and ‘read’ the field, and make claims to ‘know’ the subject under study. Core to my analysis is a critical process of self-reflection, through which I challenge the assumptions that underpin my assessment of my research participants’ ability to consent to participate in my study. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-08-28T03:33:40Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241264487
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Authors:Justine Dakin, Frances Giampapa; Frances Giampapa Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 old conversations while revisiting the motivations behind writing narrative vignettes. Our new conversations consider how this brought participants (and researchers) in from the ‘margins’ of research. We reflect through an embodied, emotional and affective lens, raising important questions around the ethics of representation and making socially just choices. We conclude that narrative vignettes are not giving voice to young learners, but that the methodology captures both told and untold stories which benefit from a reflexive approach to data at the time of the research as well as retrospectively. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-08-14T01:31:27Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241264481
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Authors:Abi Hackett, Mel Hall, Kate Pahl, Peter Kraftl; Mel Hall, Kate Pahl, Peter Kraftl Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 portrayed by their adult researchers as unique, special and meaningful. Even when their actions are unexpected, this can provide rich material to be ‘used’. How are Good Research Children produced, what work do they do and how can we resist their pull' Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-08-09T05:35:38Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241264490
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Authors:Johanne Jean-Pierre, Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Tya Collins, Emmanuela Ojukwu; Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Tya Collins, Emmanuela Ojukwu Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 Black diasporas. We contend that it is essential that researchers engage in reflexivity and consider Black ontologies, axiology and epistemologies. Furthermore, we propose the application of the following deontological principles to fulfil an ethical afro-emancipatory research framework: (a) include critical theories, (b) target the liberation of Afro-descendant peoples to enable their full participation as their whole selves in society; (c) ensure their leadership and meaningful involvement throughout the research process; (d) implement accountability mechanisms towards community members; (e) embrace intersectionality, an asset-based lens, and aspirational stance and; (f) foster healing, growth and joy. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-08-09T05:35:29Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241264458
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Authors: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; Susan Braedley, Tamara Daly, Gudmund Ågotnes, Albert Banerjee, Elias Chaccour, Karine Côté-Boucher, Stinne Glasdam, Sean Hillier, Martha MacDonald, Frode Fadnes Jacobsen, Christie Stilwell Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 that a neoliberal “research super-hero” norm operates within the research community, rooted in a conception of high productivity that mingles uneasily, for many researchers, with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial social justice aims and responsibilities. Our 2022 fieldwork experience led us to notice how this norm has circulated within our explicitly feminist research team and nudged us to challenge it, while raising questions about how a “research-worker” norm can best be supported. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-08-07T11:22:46Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241264473
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Authors:Lili Schwoerer; 6395Oxford Brookes University, UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 and queer studies in four English universities to reflect on the epistemological challenges of researching social researchers about their work. Through this, it contributes to explorations of how, in qualitative interviewing and data analysis, we can combine a critical reading of interview data with a commitment to respondents’ accounts of their realities. I argue that Black, anti-colonial, queer, feminist epistemological approaches can be well suited to navigate this challenge. I advocate for an epistemic reflexivity that acknowledges the fluidity of speaker positions while taking structural power relations, and their effects on epistemology, seriously. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-07-25T12:13:21Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241259980
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Authors:Gearoid Millar, Matías Volonterio, Lídia Cabral, Iva Peša, Melanie Levick-Parkin; Matías Volonterio, Lídia Cabral, Iva Peša, Melanie Levick-Parkin Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. Participatory action research (PAR) is described in the literature as a valuable method for enhancing the power of marginalized individuals and communities by collectively producing knowledge to transform the inequalities they experience. This deviates from most social science research, where such actors are largely the subjects of data extraction. This paper reports on our experience of using PAR to examine existing food systems and ideas regarding ‘just food system transitions’ alongside Non-Governmental Organizations in Brazil, Sierra Leone, the United Kingdom and Zambia. We describe our efforts to encourage these partners to participate in the research design, data collection and analysis in line with PAR ideals. Our experience fell short of our expectations for a PAR project. While some limitations relate to the Covid-19 pandemic, this paper focuses on the structures of contemporary neoliberal academia, which, we found, actively obstructed the realization of the optimistic claims of the PAR literature. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-06-17T09:10:12Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241259979
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Authors:Shannon A. B. Perry, Michael S. Pierce; Michael S. Pierce Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. This article presents an artful analysis method coauthors created with more-than-human collaborators to make sense of a collaborative inquiry into their long-time creative sound practice. They discuss how Heron's whole person theory, posthuman concepts, and a multimodal data assemblage of sonic and textual, extant and researcher-created materials informed their methodological process and led to a sonopoetic collaging analysis-presentation. Mapping this inquiry's methodological trajectory, this article highlights key impasses researchers encountered, how decision-making at these specific junctures related to theories they were thinking with, and what each of these decisions produced. Following transcript excerpts from the audio collage created from this sonopoetic method we improvised, the article considers some wider significances of employing sonic methods in qualitative research. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-06-17T07:45:29Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241259966
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Authors:Stacey Wilson-Forsberg, Abderrahman Beggar; Abderrahman Beggar Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. In this Research Note, two researchers present their reflections on the ethical challenges they encountered while collecting life stories of sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco and the Disputed Territory of Western Sahara. The reflections are based on field notes and excerpts from unedited transcripts of daily debriefing sessions that the researchers undertook together. The sessions were audio-recorded and transcribed into written notes. The materials reveal their thoughts and feelings as they grappled with the ethics of keeping their research participants (“Narrators”) safe, working with community organizations on the ground, attempting to conduct interviews as humanely as possible, while also managing and concealing their own emotions. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-06-12T06:51:29Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241259965
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Authors:Paul Atkinson, Silvia Cataldi, David Wästerfors; Silvia Cataldi, David Wästerfors Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. The paper recommends a values-driven regeneration of research ethics for ethnography. In contrast to the current regulatory version of research ethics we propose a more subtle, field-oriented and traditional version, grounded in ethnographic experience. The paper is in three parts. The first part highlights the tacit assumptions of current systems of ethical approval for social research and their unintended and even perverse effects. Ethnography is the focus of the second part, where we highlight the distinctive issues for ethnographic research of current practice. In the final part we argue for a culture of ethnographic work grounded in an ethnographic understanding of social conduct and an ethic of generosity. Defined as a key-value for social sensitivity, this implies abandoning a procedural logic in favour of a values-based research culture faithful to the spirit of ethnographic and qualitative inquiry. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-06-11T08:06:19Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241259978
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Authors:Marie Strand Skånland, Gisle Fuhr; Gisle Fuhr Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. In the last few years, there has been an increase of literature on the use of interviews with two participants, otherwise known as joint interviews. Researchers who employ this methodology describe challenges and potential advantages inherent to this approach, distinguishing it from individual and group interviews. In this article, we present and discuss results from two studies on therapeutic relationships in music therapy that include joint interviews with clients and their music therapists. Combining the data from the two studies, we identify and reflect on how the method of data collection shaped the interview situations and the findings that can be drawn from the empirical material. We found that the joint interview setting offered safety and support for the clients. Further, the joint interview setting allowed the music therapists and clients to address each other, build on each other's statements, and develop and negotiate shared understandings. Specifically, in joint interviews, as opposed to separate interviews, interactions within the dyad can be observed. This observation offers valuable information about the relationship within the dyad. The therapeutic relationship is key to therapeutic effect, but the client and therapist have been found to perceive their relationship differently. It is, therefore, essential to include both client and therapist when researching their relationship, and we argue that the joint interview holds a specific potential of producing rich data. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-06-03T06:44:28Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241255245
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Authors:M. Ariel Cascio; Social Justice, USA Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 face. While advice for survey research often suggests requiring interviews as a way to discourage fraudulent responses, I had participants I later concluded were misrepresenting their eligibility actually complete audio interviews. In this note, I describe my experience with this potential scam, the solutions I rejected, and the solutions I ultimately implemented to add additional screening questions related to where the participant lived and how they heard about the study. In line with my interpretivist and constructivist approach to autism studies, I focus on strategies for identifying who is “really eligible” without gatekeeping who is “really autistic.” I argue that many of the suggestions for identifying fraudulent participants may inappropriately exclude autistic or neurodivergent individuals, and describe a framework for identifying locally relevant and culturally appropriate screening questions that do not overly burden or scrutinize participants. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-05-29T07:07:10Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241255234
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Authors:Gabrielle Lynch; UK Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 conversation and rapport. However, the coverage of larger distances at greater speeds in a car and the car's existence as a private space separate from the scenes and places passed through ensures that driving together is qualitatively different to walking together and that it can sometimes be more useful. The paper argues that driving together can be a productive research space depending on research focus, context, and ethical and security considerations. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-05-29T07:01:26Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241255251
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Authors:Mieke Struwig; Research Innovation, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 my concerns that the issues raised stemmed from an environment in which moral knowledge has become codified in a template for ethical research. I consider the problems that occur when ethical procedures such as anonymity, protecting ‘vulnerable’ interviewees and member checking become mere tick-boxes on a template for ethical research, as well as how such templates can become a method of imbuing fear into the researcher. In conclusion, I propose the development of an ethical praxis premised on an ethics of care that enables, rather than stymies, critical research. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-05-23T06:47:53Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241255237
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Authors:Amabel Hunting, Kay Hammond; Kay Hammond1410Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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. Instead, they report generally on the ethical principles enacted in their method. Embarking on our first duoethnography, we experienced conflicting perspectives between applying for formal ethical approval to guide us and autonomously negotiating our own ethics of care. By sharing our divergent experiences of obtaining formal ethical approval, we offer our stories as a springboard for provocations and guidance on the unique ethical considerations for future duoethnographers. Ethical principles include understanding the relationship dynamics, commitment to the project, vulnerabilities, consent and confidentiality, and working with differences. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-05-22T05:10:11Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241255243
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Authors:Mia Harrison, Tim Rhodes, Kari Lancaster; Tim Rhodes, Kari Lancaster Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 we can practically work with objects, especially in qualitative longitudinal research. Objects in interviews do not simply afford representations or elicitations of participant stories, but become dynamic actors that enable interviews to speak materially. Using vignettes from a longitudinal study investigating experiences of COVID-19 in time, we hone our attention towards the temporal affordances of object methods. We conclude with a list of practical suggestions for using objects in qualitative longitudinal research. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-05-20T09:06:11Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241255248
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Authors:Charlie Davis, Adam Matthews, Georgiana Mihut, Stacey Mottershaw, Jessica Hawkins, Penny Rivlin, Blair Matthews; Adam Matthews, Georgiana Mihut, Stacey Mottershaw, Jessica Hawkins, Penny Rivlin, Blair Matthews Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 in this paper involved eight social science and humanities academics in UK-based elite higher education institutions. In a series of storytelling sessions, the participants created narrative encounters to foster moments of critique and analysis to explore the complex social realities of their routes into and through academia as people of working-class origins. Working alongside an illustrator, the participants used empirical insights to create composite stories in multimodal comic formats. Through this work, we seek to prompt further discussions about the generative possibilities of pursuing similar methods in the social sciences and beyond to challenge forms of social injustice. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-05-09T03:19:05Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241245954
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Authors:David Rodriguez Goyes, Sveinung Sandberg; Sveinung Sandberg6305Department of Criminology Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print. 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 over a short period of time. This article is based on interviews and research logs from a project in which over 350 incarcerated persons in Latin America were interviewed. We evaluate the advantages and shortcomings of repeat interviewing, in this case, three sessions with each participant with up to a week in between sessions. We find that repeat interviewing increases trust and rapport, contributes to nuanced data, generates reflexivity, and ensures more ethical research by making it easier for researchers to care for participants. Yet the method also has the disadvantages of demanding a significant investment of resources, the risk of losing participants, and on occasion, the emotional challenge of breaking strong bonds when researchers and participants part ways. We argue that the advantages of repeat interviews exceed the shortcomings, but ethical concerns added to the cost in time, energy, and money might at times proscribe the method. Citation: Qualitative Research PubDate: 2024-04-12T11:47:09Z DOI: 10.1177/14687941241246159
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