Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2023.2266683
Michelle O’Reilly, Sarah Adams, Rachel Batchelor, Diane Levine
A critical analysis of the benefits and challenges of adopting a hybrid approach to conducting qualitative research in schools with children as co-researchers is presented. The study involved 18 children (10–11-years), working as co-researchers in pairs to interview each other with a goal of understanding their experiences online, particularly in terms of digital citizenship and mental wellbeing. Children participated in a pre-research lesson for the acquisition of interviewing skills. Analysis identified three key methodological lessons. First, the co-research approach with foundational learning enabled children to be active and responsible interviewers. Second, the adult researcher and school staff had a role in empowering children through empathy, reassurance, positive praise, and supporting them when upset. The final theme recognised the challenges of research being conducted remotely with implications for future research.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2023.2276960
Imani Randolph, Raven Simonds, Dalia Sharps, Jamala Wallace, Hannah Joseph, René Ropac, Tiffany Bergin
Research has documented numerous barriers to recruitment of marginalized individuals, including historic exploitation, distrust, and accessibility. Such challenges are commonly observed among racial minorities, unhoused individuals, and individuals with lower socioeconomic statuses. Public health researchers have led investigations on ways to engage hard-to-reach populations, but the nuances of recruiting such individuals within criminal justice research remain less explored – a crucial oversight given the prevalence of these populations within the criminal legal system. While literature has identified barriers unique to these distinct identities, it has not fully explored how intersectional identities may complicate these barriers. To bridge these critical gaps, the current paper addresses the challenges of recruiting individuals with multiple identities within the same study. We discuss how the proposed techniques for recruitment of these populations translate into criminal justice contexts, with particular attention to the ways individuals with lived experience enhance study design, recruitment, and overall integrity.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2022.2097394
P. Jabkowski
ABSTRACT Social research methodologists have postulated that the transparency of survey procedures and data processing is mandatory for assessing the Total Survey Error. Recent analyses of data from cross-national surveys have demonstrated an increase in the quality of documentation reports over time and significant differences in documentation quality between the projects. This research note replicates previous results with an extended set of documentation-related quality indicators describing the degree of completeness of information at the consecutive steps of the survey cycle. It also extends earlier findings by indicating no significant relationship between the quality of the survey documentation and the quality of the survey itself. We analysed a meta-data set of survey characteristics, studying all available up-to-date methodological reports of 1,145 national surveys from four large-scale multi-wave projects: the European Quality of Life Survey (2003–2016), European Social Survey (2002–2018), European Values Study (1981–2017), and International Social Survey Programme (1985–2018).
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2023.2262376
Kacey Beddoes
ABSTRACTDespite their many benefits, longitudinal studies are much less common than one-time data collection or pre-post intervention designs. One reason for their scarcity is that longitudinal studies introduce requirements and challenges that non-longitudinal studies do not. One of the biggest challenges is participant attrition. In order to help researchers plan and conduct longitudinal studies and mitigate some of these challenges, this article presents methodological findings from five years of mixed-methods data collection with the same 16 participants. Findings consist of participants’ reasons for continued participation, which spanned a range of personal and professional reasons, and my reflections on methodological lessons I have learned over these years. Understanding why participants have continued to participate and lessons I have learned can support the successful design and completion of future longitudinal research, which in turn will advance understandings of social processes, changes over time, pathways, and emergences.KEYWORDS: Longitudinalmixed-methodsengineeringreflectiongender AcknowledgmentsI am very grateful to my participants for their continued contributions to the study. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant EEC #1929727. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation [EEC #1929727].Notes on contributorsKacey BeddoesKacey Beddoes is a Project Director for the San Jose State University College of Engineering Dean’s Office. She holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech, along with graduate certificates in Engineering Education and Women’s Studies. Her current research focuses on gender, interdisciplinarity, and mental wellness in engineering and engineering education.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2023.2267836
Annie Irvine
Engaging with primary researchers during qualitative secondary analysis is a practice much recommended but rarely written about. In this article, I reflect on my experience of crossing an imagined boundary between the discrete textual dataset and its creators, of acknowledging and engaging with those researchers who invested in constructing the data, some of whom are still actively working with it. Focusing on four rationales for engaging with primary researchers - orientation, navigation, interpretation and the ethics of ownership - I describe the opportunities, tensions and dilemmas that presented themselves as I entered into dialogue with members of the primary research team. As the encouragement of rapid archiving practices and open qualitative research present new possibilities in working with contemporary ‘living’ archives, so it also raises new methodological and ethical considerations regarding engagement with and relationality towards primary researchers still active in their fields.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2023.2251321
Simon Massey
The UK-based article develops a quantitative method for measuring 8–9-year-old children’s Gender Ability Beliefs through drawings, assessing the reliability and validity of the measure and its association with respondents’ self-reported gender. The measure, originally used in the US by Beilock et al. (2010), required respondents to draw two pictures: one of someone good at mathematics and another good at reading. They also had to show whether each drawing was of a male or female by ticking a provided box. Findings indicate children are more likely to draw someone of the same assigned gender as their own for both skillsets. Male respondents were found to be more likely to indicate more traditional views in males being good at mathematics and females good at reading. The article concludes that drawings can be used as quantitative self-completion methods with child respondents, whilst presenting evidence to consider how we do so with concepts like gender that require validity and can be used internationally.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2023.2265256
Siphelo Ngcwangu
ABSTRACTThis paper grapples with methodological issues related to ongoing debates on positionality and reflexivity by drawing on the author’s experience of conducting research in a culturally familiar field. The paper is based on in-depth qualitative research that examined the lived realities of unemployed young people residing in the township of Daveyton in South Africa’s Gauteng Province. This paper aims to transcend conventional perspectives on ‘outsider–insider’ dynamics as these do not fully explain the complexity of conducting research in a familiar field. The research involved the use of one-on-one interviews and group discussions. I use the term politics of conducting research in a familiar field to explain the texture, language, and daily realities of Daveyton, which are familiar to me given my upbringing in a similar community that I grew up in. To elaborate on this, I formulate three dimensions of the politics of researching a familiar field which are as follows: (1) Ambiguities of the ‘element of surprise’; (2) Re-negotiating entry; and (3) wider concept of the researcher as ‘outsider’. The paper concludes by calling on researchers conducting studies within their own or similar communities to pay specific attention to the nuances of class privilege, exclusion, and power in order to provide meaningful analysis of the existential conditions that participants face.KEYWORDS: Youthunemploymentpositionalityresearch methodologyracetownship AcknowledgmentsI wish to thank my colleague Ms Boitumelo Matlala for her critical comments on earlier drafts of the paper. I would also like to acknowledge Mr Landisile Nomngqokwane who assisted me at various stages of this research. I thank the three blind reviewers for meaningful and constructive comments on the paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The term ‘black african’ is used within nationalist-orientated political approaches such as those of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), which still uses the notion of a ‘National Question’ in its analysis of South Africa’s social formation, that national question speaks of ‘blacks in general and Africans in particular’. While this term is used in general parlance, it is challenged from a variety of viewpoints in South African society.2. The usage of this type of language is common mainly in black communities and takes different forms. It is gendered in the sense that amongst its main speakers are males who often appropriate it as a means of building rapport and engendering a sense of brotherhood. The term ‘tsotsi’ has been given greater prominence by the Academy Award winning movie ‘tsotsi’, which is based on a story about a street thug who after stealing a car discovers that there is a baby in the back seat of the car.3. In South Africa these are popular hangout spots where people socialize and have a what Americans call a barbeque, in South Africa we call it a braai. These popular spots ar
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Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2023.2269027
Emma George
ABSTRACTDecolonising methodology requires that researchers engage in a process of learning and unlearning. This research on the inconsistent recognition of Indigenous rights and social determinants of Indigenous health in Australian policy implementation was positioned at the interface of knowledge systems and drew on a weaving metaphor to guide reflection on learning and unlearning. The aim of this paper is to share a reflection on this research methodology from a non-Indigenous standpoint. Reflexivity, deep listening, peer mentoring and supervision are identified as essential components of decolonising methodology. Through the process of weaving, both practically and philosophically, the significance of transformational unlearning is discussed. This reflection is offered as an example to other non-Indigenous researchers who are open to the challenge of decolonising research at the interface of knowledge.KEYWORDS: Reflectiondecolonising methodologyinterface of knowledgeweaving AcknowledgmentsThis research was conducted on the traditional land of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and on the land of the Yorta Yorta and Bangerang people of the Greater Shepparton region. The Author pays respect to Elders past and present, and acknowledges the contribution, insight and wisdom of all of the participants in this research. The author acknowledges the support and guidance received from PhD supervisors, Professor Fran Baum, Associate Professor Tamara Mackean, and Dr Matt Fisher, along with critical friends, Dr Courtney Ryder and Mr Tirritpa Ritchie.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity: policy research on the social determinants of health equity (APP1078046). The author received a PhD scholarship funded by the NHMRC which was topped up by Flinders University.Notes on contributorsEmma GeorgeAssociate Professor Emma George is an occupational therapist with a PhD in public health. Her research explores ways to address health inequities among marginalised people with a commitment to social and occupational justice. Her research focuses on national policy implementation, the health and well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities, and recovery from exploitation and modern slavery in Australia and India. She is the Program Director for Occupational Therapy at the University of Adelaide
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Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2023.2265257
Annina Heini, Krzysztof Kredens
This article reports on our experience of collecting language data from informants in video-conferencing settings under a research design originally developed with face-to-face interactions in mind. We had set out to investigate whether individual stylistic features persist in different modes of textual production and designed a complex set of data-collection procedures, which we then adopted for use in a fully virtual environment with 112 informants, who were asked to provide language samples in eight discourse types. We conclude that the unintended shift to virtual settings had only a minimal impact on the volume and quality of the data. While the process was occasionally afflicted by IT-related technical issues and made extra demands on the data collector, it also created opportunities, notably around the management of interactional power asymmetries. Additional benefits included instant troubleshooting during data handover sessions and the ability to recruit participants who would not have been able to travel to face-to-face sessions.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.21487/jrm.2023.8.8.2.101
Seongjin Choi
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