Pub Date : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.1177/14687941241255243
Amabel Hunting, Kay Hammond
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.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.1177/14687941241255248
Mia Harrison, Tim Rhodes, K. Lancaster
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.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-09DOI: 10.1177/14687941241245954
Charlie Davis, Adam Matthews, Georgiana Mihut, Stacey Mottershaw, Jessica Hawkins, Penny Rivlin, Blair Matthews
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.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1177/14687941241246173
Jennifer Rowsell
Scholars point to the ubiquity of visual images in media and popular culture as driving striking developments in visual research over the past decade. Yet, with this popularity, there is less attention paid to affective, non-representational dimensions of visual images and specifically to the ways that photos animate and inform ethnographic fieldwork. The felt, sensory qualities photographs hold play a role in not only what gets documented, but also what photos produce as shared, felt objects that circulate during fieldwork. This article redresses a gap in qualitative research literature on the affective, embodied co-experiencing of visual methods that happens during fieldwork by spotlighting a research study on family photographs. In the article, I begin by defining affect, then I profile extant non-representational, affect-driven visual methods and discuss how matter invites affect, and then I spotlight a larger research study I was involved in on visualising the modern Canadian family. In the article, I offer insights that emerged from photo-sharing interviews which produced what I call in the article, affective figured worlds. Built on Holland's concept of ‘figured worlds’ coupled with Ahmed's notion of ‘sticky objects’, the article explores the notion of affective figured worlds to attune researchers to more of the non-representational methods in play during visual research.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1177/14687941241245961
Ash Watson, Emma Kirby
How we elicit rich reflections from people about their feelings and experiences is a central consideration of qualitative research. Creative techniques of elicitation can open reflective dialogic spaces between participants and researchers, bridging memory and meaning. In this article we discuss participant-led explorations of a digital story-mapping platform as an elicitation technique in qualitative interviews. This platform is Queering the Map, a community-generated counter-mapping project that digitally archives queer moments in place. An atemporal cartographic representation of queer life, visitors to the site zoom, drag and click to reveal the anonymous contributions of others: micro-stories of experience, poems, messages and yearnings, claiming a global landscape of queer feeling. Here we offer reflections from our experience of asking participants to explore and guide us around the map within an interview. We chart how this method of live digital discovery was generative of elicitation and evocation, of insights on affective roots (where have I come from?) and affective routes (where can I take you?). This article contributes to scholarship on elicitation and live methods, including digital and spatial approaches, and to conceptualisations of orientation and mapping.
如何激发人们对其感受和经历的丰富思考，是定性研究的核心问题。创造性的诱导技术可以在参与者和研究人员之间开启反思性的对话空间，在记忆和意义之间架起桥梁。在本文中，我们将讨论由参与者主导的对数字故事地图平台的探索，并将其作为定性访谈中的一种诱导技术。这个平台就是 "同性恋地图"（Queering the Map），它是一个由社区生成的反地图项目，以数字化的方式将同性恋的瞬间记录下来。网站的访问者可以通过缩放、拖拽和点击来显示其他人匿名提供的信息：微小的经历故事、诗歌、信息和渴望，从而展现出同性恋情感的全球景观。在此，我们将根据我们的经验进行反思，即让参与者在访谈中围绕地图进行探索和引导。我们描绘了这种实时数字发现方法是如何激发和唤起人们对情感根源（我从哪里来？ ）和情感路线（我能带你去哪里？）这篇文章有助于激发和现场方法的学术研究，包括数字和空间方法，以及定向和绘图的概念化。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-12DOI: 10.1177/14687941241246174
Christopher C Jadallah
Attention to researcher positionality is an important component of qualitative research, particularly in research done with and for communities. However, discussions of researcher positionality are often limited in that they narrowly focus on positionality with respect to human research participants and whether the researcher is an insider or outsider. In this article, I build with the contributions of Indigenous scholarship to make a methodological argument for broadening our notions of positionality to consider relationality with respect to place and land. Relationality is a core tenet across many Indigenous epistemologies and research methodologies, and refers to the interconnected and mutually constitutive relationships between people and land. I argue that building and participating in relationships with land—as a core methodological consideration in qualitative research—can catalyze new possibilities for ethical research in which researchers are answerable to complex social and ecological relations in the places where they live and work.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-12DOI: 10.1177/14687941241246165
Susana Beltrán-Grimm
Co-design methods offer a powerful collaborative approach that allows for integrating various participants’ needs and expectations in the design process. However, current co-design tools often reflect a Eurocentric bias, limiting their utility in diverse settings. This article explores co-design methodologies and their application in a study with Spanish-speaking Latina mothers living in Southern California. I focus on co-design tools and processes, integrating culturally sustaining methods that respect and value the lived experiences of Latina mothers. Drawing from a qualitative phenomenological research approach and using in-depth interviews, the study underscores the mothers’ ways of knowing, highlighting personal math experiences and traditions in co-design sessions where the mothers sought to develop a math activity for their children. The article contributes to the literature on co-design methodologies to include culturally inclusive research tools and practices, emphasizing a co-design process that works “with” rather than “for” nondominant social groups.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-12DOI: 10.1177/14687941241246159
David Rodriguez Goyes, Sveinung Sandberg
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.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1177/14687941241234272
Erica Russ, Melissa Petrakis, Louise Whitaker, Robyn Fitzroy, Monica Short
Co-operative inquiry, pioneered by Heron and Reason, is a qualitative, participatory methodology that powerfully transforms research from inquiring about people to inquiring with people. Contemporary qualitative research is increasingly trending from studying others to engaging all participants in research processes as equal collaborators. Consequently, many qualitative researchers are looking to participatory methodologies such as co-operative inquiry to create authentic research partnerships between researchers, professional practitioners and people with lived experience. This methodology engages participants in the entire research process as co-researchers, co-inquirers, co-participants and co-authors, generating new knowledge by analysing rich understandings of people and their experiences. This article analyses and self-evaluates four co-operative inquiries. They demonstrate the utility, accessibility and knowledge base of the methodology, its ethical strengths, and how it is particularly appropriate for fostering co-design and co-production by eliciting varied and broad perspectives regarding complex phenomena.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-21DOI: 10.1177/14687941241234299
S. Chicken, Gisselle Tur Porres, Dawn Mannay, Jade Parnell, Jacky Tyrie
There has been much debate around the ‘voice’ of the child in qualitative research. This paper contributes to these discussions by drawing on the philosophy of Reggio Emilia, which emphasizes dialogical encounters that recognize the value of children's subjectivities. The paper critically reflects on a qualitative study of primary education during the COVID-19 pandemic that involved children aged 5–7 (n = 30), teachers (n = 6) and parents and carers (n = 18) in Wales. The study generated data using creative methodologies, field notes and qualitative interviews. The philosophy of Reggio Emilia was utilized to be reflexive about the processes of research design, fieldwork, data analysis and dissemination, questioning tensions between voice and silence and how research teams can face and respond to the challenging issues that complicate the intent of respecting children's subjectivities and perspectives. A key lesson from this process of reflection and questioning was the need to be attentive to and attuned with the subtleties of children's paralanguage and to maintain a level of flexibility in research design and processes that respected children's requirements and preferences. While the study focussed on children's experiences, the lessons learnt from evaluating the study in relation to the philosophy of Reggio Emilia have value for wider qualitative projects with diverse communities.
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