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Showing papers in "Qualitative Research in 2021"


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TL;DR: For many social science scholars, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to re-think our approaches to research as mentioned in this paper, as a result of new social distancing measures, those of us who conduct in-person qualit...
Abstract: For many social science scholars, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to re-think our approaches to research. As a result of new social distancing measures, those of us who conduct in-person qualit...

152 citations


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TL;DR: Comics have long been a focus of scholarly inquiry as discussed by the authors, and this interest has taken a methodological turn, with scholars integrating comics creation into the research process itself, and they have become a source of inspiration for many researchers.
Abstract: Comics have long been a focus of scholarly inquiry. In recent years, this interest has taken a methodological turn, with scholars integrating comics creation into the research process itself. In th...

44 citations


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TL;DR: The design and development of methods employed in the new project ‘Living with Personal Data’ are outlined, taking up more-than-human theoretical perspectives and research-creation methods to elicit the affective and multisensory contexts of people's feelings, practices and imaginaries concerning their digital data.
Abstract: As the number of digital technologies expands, entering more domains of everyday life, people’s activities, bodies and preferences are rendered into constantly changing flows of digitised informati...

33 citations


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Anna Colom1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a digital ethnography with young activists in Western Kenya to conduct online and mobile focus groups and found that the presence of WhatsApp in participants' everyday lives offers a context with high ecological validity.
Abstract: WhatsApp’s ubiquity in many people’s everyday lives points at new possibilities for conducting online and mobile focus groups. Yet, research on the benefits and potential pitfalls of this is negligible. This paper offers new empirical insights from using the method as part of a digital ethnography with young activists in Western Kenya. The presence of WhatsApp in participants’ everyday lives offers a context with high ecological validity. The paper suggests that this opens up new options for designing online focus groups, transcending the traditional categorisation between synchronous and asynchronous interactions and some limitations of both approaches. WhatsApp also offers opportunities for creating more inclusive group discussions. Using discourse analysis of the WhatsApp focus group, the paper also finds that this familiarity and inclusivity affords the potential for group deliberation, which can be particularly valuable in participatory research.

32 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore and contribute to producing a performative research paradigm where post-qualitative as well as artistic research might dwell and breathe, and explore a thread of d...
Abstract: In this article, the authors explore and contribute to producing a performative research paradigm where post-qualitative as well as artistic research might dwell and breathe. Entering a thread of d...

28 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the Researcher-in-Residence model and its application within health services research in three East London hospitals is discussed. But the authors focus on the use of Researcher in Residence models in participatory research.
Abstract: This paper contributes to the literature on ethics in Participatory Research by looking at the Researcher-in-Residence model and its application within health services research in three East London...

25 citations


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TL;DR: It is concluded that the remote PV method has great potential as a stand-alone method, moving the landscape of co-production research away from a requirement for geographical co-presence and potentially shifting power and ownership towards local co-researchers and participants.
Abstract: In this paper, I outline an innovative remote participatory video (PV) methodology that makes use of participants’ smartphones. It was developed as an alternative to co-production research and can ...

24 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the pressing ethical challenges associated with increased online platforming of sensitive research on conflict-affected settings since the onset of Covid-19, and argue that such platforms are not suitable for sensitive research.
Abstract: This research note explores the pressing ethical challenges associated with increased online platforming of sensitive research on conflict-affected settings since the onset of Covid-19. We argue th...

22 citations


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TL;DR: This article put reflexivity to work, providing a critical commentary on data generated through ethnographic research, and found that reflexivity is continually called for as a marker of quality ethnography research.
Abstract: Reflexivity is continually called for as a marker of quality ethnographic research. In this paper we put reflexivity to ‘work’, providing a critical commentary on data generated through ethnographi...

19 citations


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TL;DR: The authors describe a form of qualitative inquiry, dialogical inquiry, which allows for multiple investigators from different positions or traditions to collaboratively inter-interview each other in a collaborative manner.
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe a novel form of qualitative inquiry, dialogical inquiry, which allows for multiple investigators from different positions or traditions to collaboratively inter...

18 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors engage with the methodological and conceptual challenges of making anti-science and anti-innovation decisions against the background of critique in public engagement scholarship on new and emerging science and innovation.
Abstract: Against the background of critique in public engagement scholarship on new and emerging science and innovation, this article engages with the methodological and conceptual challenges of making anti...

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TL;DR: Reflexivity is considered a hallmark of qualitative research as mentioned in this paper, and more attention is needed to what it means to practice reflexivity within the context of team-based research, with the continued growth in teambased research.
Abstract: Reflexivity is considered a hallmark of qualitative research. With the continued growth in team-based research, more attention is needed to what it means to practice reflexivity within the context ...

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TL;DR: The term curation was once only utilized by museum professionals as mentioned in this paper, however, the term seems to have been borrowed by aesthetically-minded persons looking to collect ideas or objects.
Abstract: The term curation was once only utilized by museum professionals. Currently, the term seems to have been borrowed by aesthetically-minded persons looking to collect ideas or objects. Through a deta...

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TL;DR: When conducting interviews about sensitive subject matter such as family life, powerful emotions may arise as mentioned in this paper, and these kinds of unexpected distress can surface in interviews concerning topics laden with topics that are difficult to discuss.
Abstract: When conducting interviews about sensitive subject matter such as family life, powerful emotions may arise. The kinds of unexpected distress that can surface in interviews concerning topics laden w...

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine ways of approaching informed consent as a relationally constituted process in qualitative research practices and argue that a researcher's operationalization of informed consent can be seen as a relational process.
Abstract: This article examines ways of approaching informed consent as a relationally constituted process in qualitative research practices. It argues that a researcher’s operationalization of informed cons...

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TL;DR: Scholars from wide-ranging disciplines are turning to social media platforms as research sites, and as platforms expand their communicative possibilities, they create more spaces for users to enact their beliefs as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Scholars from wide-ranging disciplines are turning to social media platforms as research sites, and as platforms expand their communicative possibilities, they create more spaces for users to enact...

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TL;DR: Co-produced research is said to create new knowledge through including the perspectives of those traditionally excluded from knowledge production, which in turn is expected to enhance research qualitatively as discussed by the authors, which is also referred to as knowledge sharing.
Abstract: Co-produced research is said to create new knowledge through including the perspectives of those traditionally excluded from knowledge production, which in turn is expected to enhance research qual...

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TL;DR: Social network analysis (SNA) is an interdisciplinary method that takes as its starting point the premise that social life is created primarily and most importantly by relations and the patterns of relationships as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Social network analysis (SNA) is an interdisciplinary method that takes as its starting point the premise that social life is created primarily and most importantly by relations and the patterns fo...

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TL;DR: This article explored the use of fiction as a mode of representing data in social research and found that three of the key drivers for fictionalizing research accounts relate to the ambitions of aesthetically appealing authors.
Abstract: This article explores the use of fiction as a mode of representing data in social research. I show that three of the key drivers for fictionalising research accounts relate to the ambitions of aest...

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TL;DR: Using a feminist theoretical framework, the authors reflect on the issues of power between "the researched" and "the researcher" and highlight the problematic of shared identities and dissimilar identities in research.
Abstract: Using a feminist theoretical framework, this article reflects on the issues of power between ‘the researched’ and ‘the researcher’ and highlights the problematic of shared identities and dissimilar...

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TL;DR: The authors built on the notions of thick and thin description elaborated by Geertz and looked at what descriptive methods have been used in the field of papyrology, a sub-discipline of classics.
Abstract: This article builds on the notions of thick and thin description elaborated by Geertz and looks at what descriptive methods have been used in the field of papyrology, a sub-discipline of classics t...

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TL;DR: This paper re-conceptualized the highly ambivalent relationships between researchers and research participants in conflict zones, with a focus on recognizing respondents' multiple and fluid positions about conflict zones.
Abstract: This article re-conceptualizes the highly ambivalent relationships between researchers and research participants in conflict zones, with a focus on recognizing respondents’ multiple and fluid posit...

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TL;DR: Google Docs is a widely used online word processing software as discussed by the authors, but it is under-utilised as a tool to facilitate qualitative interviews in business and education, despite its broad popularity.
Abstract: Google Docs is a widely used online word processing software. Despite its broad popularity in business and education, Google Docs is under-utilised as a tool to facilitate qualitative interviews wi...

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TL;DR: The authors provides an overview of the ways in which voice has been defined, defined and valorized in qualitative research and argues that alternative imaginings and conceptualizations of voice have been proposed.
Abstract: This article provides an overview of the ways in which ‘voice’ has been engaged, defined and valorized in qualitative research and argues that alternative imaginings and conceptualizations of ‘voic...

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TL;DR: In this paper, the highly self-reflexive processes involved in mining personal data are subject to a set of cul-de-sacs. But they are not suitable for the analysis of complex emotional experiences.
Abstract: Autoethnography can be an appropriate method for researching complex emotional experiences. However, the highly self-reflexive processes involved in mining personal data are subject to a set of cul...

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore a form of sensuous methodology known as smellwalks, which require a reorientation of the senses to temporarily emphasize the information received from the senses.
Abstract: This paper explores a form of sensuous methodology known as smellwalks. Smellwalks are a method which require a reorientation of the senses to temporarily emphasize the information received from th...

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present research findings from an arts-based research (ABR) project that aimed to redress the symbolic effects of negative recognition associated with place-based stigma.
Abstract: We present research findings from an arts-based research (ABR) project that aimed to redress the symbolic effects of negative recognition associated with place-based stigma. Focusing on two prominently stigmatised neighbourhoods in Melbourne and Hobart (Australia), we explain the rationale for the study and how arts-based tactics were used for phenomenological explorations of familiar environments and to generate alternate, faithful and compelling portrayals of neighbourhoods that stemmed from residents’ actual experiences. Our approach to ABR blended sociological concerns with socially engaged practices that emphasised creative and dialogic tactics, provocations and immersive experiences. We explain how art-based tactics were incorporated into artist residency projects that comprised four parts: local induction; excursions to art galleries; a six-week workshop programme; and exhibition events. Following this, interviews were conducted with artist-residents at the conclusion of the projects. Both the artistic outcomes and participants’ reflections provide evidence that blending socially engaged art practices and participatory methods can help residents and researchers navigate the internalised effects of stigma in processes of meaning-making.

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TL;DR: In this paper, an ongoing debate about the validity of interview data and the ways in which they are interpreted in the "interview society" has been discussed, and they understand the need for an extensive rela...
Abstract: This paper contributes to an ongoing debate about the validity of interview data and the ways in which they are interpreted in the ‘interview society’. We understand the need for an extensive relia...

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TL;DR: The value of fiction for public sociology and within qualitative research is well established as discussed by the authors, however, questions about process remain. Drawing from three contemporary projects, a novel, a series and a series of books, the authors present a novel-based approach to the process of qualitative research.
Abstract: The value of fiction for public sociology and within qualitative research is well established. However, questions about process remain. Drawing from three contemporary projects – a novel, a series ...

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TL;DR: It is argued that screen-recording is an innovative data collection tool in the research of language learning, and it should be included in the repertoire of mobile methods to study (im)mobilities of language learners, teachers and knowledge.
Abstract: As language learning has become increasingly globalised, mobile and online, instances of language learning of significant value cannot be obtained by using conventional means such as on-site observ...