scholarly journals Constructing (Inter)Disciplinary Identities: Biographical Narrative and the Reproduction of Academic Selves and Communities

2021 ◽  
pp. 247-262
Author(s):  
Carlos Cuevas-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
Academic Identities ◽  
The Core ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Responsible Research

AbstractInterdisciplinarity has become prominent in science policy and academia because of its potential to lead to more interesting, innovative and responsible research. However, its implications for the development of academic careers and identities are not well known, partly because different disciplinary communities regard it differently. Shedding light on how academic identities are constructed and negotiated in the context of interdisciplinary research, this chapter presents a discourse analysis of the biographical narratives that scholars from different disciplines—including mathematics, computer science, economics and archaeology—articulated during qualitative research interviews. The analysis illustrates how these narratives allowed the interviewees to identify themselves as members of specific disciplinary communities, having the personal traits these require, and emphasizing or playing down their interdisciplinary moves accordingly. The findings suggest that individuals’ biographical narratives deserve careful attention because they contribute to the establishment, reproduction and maintenance of academic disciplines. Consequently, they have the potential to make the narratives that constitute the ‘core’ of a discipline become, little by little, more heterogeneous.

scholarly journals Internally Incentivized Interdisciplinarity: Organizational Restructuring of Research and Emerging Tensions

Minerva ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Salmela ◽  
Miles MacLeod ◽  
Johan Munck af Rosenschöld
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Organizational Restructuring ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Internal Funding

AbstractInterdisciplinarity is widely considered necessary to solving many contemporary problems, and new funding structures and instruments have been created to encourage interdisciplinary research at universities. In this article, we study a small technical university specializing in green technology which implemented a strategy aimed at promoting and developing interdisciplinary collaboration. It did so by reallocating its internal research funds for at least five years to “research platforms” that required researchers from at least two of the three schools within the university to participate. Using data from semi-structured interviews from researchers in three of these platforms, we identify specific tensions that the strategy has generated in this case: (1) in the allocation of platform resources, (2) in the division of labor and disciplinary relations, (3) in choices over scientific output and academic careers. We further show how the particular platform format exacerbates the identified tensions in our case. We suggest that certain features of the current platform policy incentivize shallow interdisciplinary interactions, highlighting potential limits on the value of attempting to push for interdisciplinarity through internal funding.

Working With Asian Language Interpreters in Qualitative Research: A Comparative Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 868-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Wong ◽  
Jane Koziol-McLain ◽  
Marewa Glover
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
English Language ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Asian Languages ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

Health researchers employ health interpreters for research interviews with linguistically diverse speakers. Few studies compare inconsistencies between different interpretations of the same interview data. We compared interpreted with independently reinterpreted English language transcripts from five in-home family interviews conducted in five different Asian languages. Differences included augmented, summarized, and/or omitted information. Researchers should ensure that they, and their interpreters, follow rigorous processes for credible qualitative data collection, and audit their interpreted data for accuracy. Different interpretations of the same data can be incorporated into analyses.

scholarly journals The Contribution of Lexical Cohesion to the Text Cohesion in EFL Students’ Expository Texts

ELT in Focus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Hanif Nurcholish Adiantika
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Expository Texts ◽  
West Java ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Twelfth Grade ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Text Cohesion

This study aims to investigate the use of lexical cohesion in students’ expository texts. It reveals thetypes of lexical cohesion employed by the students in their expository texts and the contribution oflexical cohesion to the text’ cohesion. This study employs qualitative research by using a case studydesign. Nine students of twelfth grade in a public senior high school in Kuningan regent, West Java,are chosen as the participants. The data in this study include the documents of students’ expositorytexts. The data are analyzed by using the concept of cohesive devices proposed by Halliday andHasan (1976). The findings show that there are two lexical cohesions identified in nine students’expository texts i.e. reiteration (covering i.e. antonymy, repetition, synonymy, meronymy, andhyponymy) and collocation. This study also indicates that lexical cohesion contribute to the processof keeping track of the participants and engaging the readers to the core argument of the text.Moreover, it can be stated that the contribution of lexical cohesion towards students’ expositorytexts is considered low. Therefore, there must be an encouragement for the students to use properlexical cohesion to make their text more cohesive.

scholarly journals Qualitative research interviews using online video technology – challenges and opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charl de Villiers ◽  
Muhammad Bilal Farooq ◽  
Matteo Molinari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Video Technology ◽  
Contextual Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Accounting Research ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Prior Literature ◽  
Research Interviews

Purpose This study aims to examine the methodological and method-related challenges and opportunities arising from the use of video interviews in qualitative accounting research, focussed on collecting contextual data and visual cues, enriching communication quality and building and maintaining rapport with interviewees. Design/methodology/approach Prior literature and the authors’ experiences using video technologies for research, including conducting interviews, inform this research. This study uses a transactional conceptual refinement of information richness theory and channel expansion theory to critically analyse the challenges and opportunities of using video technology to conduct qualitative research interviews. Findings The ability, need for and significance of collecting contextual data depend on the researchers’ ontological and epistemological assumptions, and are, therefore, influenced by their research design choices. Video technology enables researchers to view research settings by video. In addition, whilst group/panel interviews have their advantages, it is often difficult to get everyone together in person, something video technology can potentially overcome. The feasibility and the quality of video interviews can be improved if both interview participants are experienced with using video technology, as well as with judicious investment in good quality video technology and through testing and practice. We also discuss how rapport building with interviewees can be facilitated by overcoming the video’s sense of disconnect and enhancing interviewees’ willingness to engage. Originality/value The study builds on the limited prior literature and considers the challenges and opportunities related to methodology and method when conducting video-based qualitative interviews in accounting research. Broadly, qualitative researchers will find the paper useful in considering the use of video interviews and in making research design choices appropriate for video interviews.

Effects Of The COVID -19 Pandemıc On The Elderly: A Grounded Theory Study From Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-266
Author(s):  
Ahmet Koşar ◽  
Aytul Kasapoglu
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
Grounded Theory Methodology ◽  
Grounded Theory Study ◽  
The Core ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World

More than 95 percent of those who lost their lives as a result of the spread of the Covid-19 virus to the world since the beginning of 2020 are over the age of 60 (WHO, 2020). The main purpose of this article is to reveal the vital difficulties of the 65-75 age group in Turkey, who were quarantined due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as a result of deprivation of their former normal lives and how they overcame them. The theoretical starting point of this study is the relational sociologist H. White and his “uncertainty” classification. In the study, Grounded Theory Methodology was chosen as one of the qualitative research approaches and open, axial and selective codings were made as a requirement of this. In this context, interviews were made with 12 individuals from the 65-75 age group and the data were presented in figures. As a result of open, axial and selective coding, the core concept of the study was determined as "solidarity". In accordance with the grounded theory, at the end of the study, the "solidarity process" was narrated using the "river" metaphor.

Faculty Recruitment and Formation

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-147
Author(s):  
James L. Heft
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Faculty Recruitment ◽  
Educational Mission ◽  
Core Curricula ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Intellectual Character ◽  
Challenging Question

This chapter addresses the challenging question of how to sustain a distinctive religious intellectual tradition while hiring people who are diverse in multiple ways. It singles out multiple misunderstandings of what it means to “hire for mission,” defends the intellectual character of the mission of Catholic education, and gives examples of how to run workshops for faculty to hire for the mission of a Catholic university. Once faculty are hired, the next step is to give examples of how the continued formation of faculty in their academic disciplines can contribute with integrity to the Catholic educational mission. Structural elements, including appointments to chaired positions, the building of core curricula, and the importance of interdisciplinary research, can strengthen the mission of a Catholic university.

Teacher Leadership? Voices of Backbone Teachers in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-247
Author(s):  
Jia “Grace” Liang ◽  
Feiye Wang
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Teacher Leadership ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Local Context ◽  
School Capacity ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
The Core ◽  
Lead Teachers

This qualitative research investigated the applicability of teacher leadership, a notion mostly grounded in the Western literatures, to the educational settings in China. The current research focused on the Chinese lead teachers, backbone teachers (BTs), their experiences, and perspectives of teacher leadership. As a program designed to increase school capacity, the BT system has left its delivery of the promises largely to the local context. The BTs’ boundary expanding into other leadership domains traditionally considered as remote from the core of teaching and learning was at the mercy of the principal’s leadership and support.

The writing profession in France: Between symbolic and professional recognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisèle Sapiro
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Writing Courses ◽  
Professional Recognition ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Elective Affinities ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines current transformations of the writing profession in France. Based on qualitative research (interviews with writers and their representatives, as well as organisers of literary events) and on a national survey conducted in 2016 by the Centre national du livre, it emphasises the tension between symbolic and professional recognition at different moments of a writer’s ‘career’. In a country where literary agents are only now starting to organise, and where creative writing courses are not as well established as elsewhere, publishers still play the key role of ‘gatekeepers’ into the literary field. The relationship with the publisher is thus crucial and is based on elective affinities. Yet, once published, an author still needs to be distinguished and recognised. Apart from the traditional literary prizes, which give symbolic and professional recognition, literary events (festivals, public readings) and residencies offer new career opportunities. These related activities, or ‘activités connexes’ have significantly increased in number: the article focuses especially on analysing how they now fit into and structure the literary careers of authors, as well as how authors themselves perceive them.

scholarly journals Editorial Essay: The Tumult over Transparency: Decoupling Transparency from Replication in Establishing Trustworthy Qualitative Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Pratt ◽  
Sarah Kaplan ◽  
Richard Whittington
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Experimental Social Psychology ◽  
Research Management ◽  
The Core ◽  
Replication Crisis ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Core Issues ◽  
Editorial Essay

Management journals are currently responding to challenges raised by the “replication crisis” in experimental social psychology, leading to new standards for transparency. These approaches are spilling over to qualitative research in unhelpful and potentially even dangerous ways. Advocates for transparency in qualitative research mistakenly couple it with replication. Tying transparency tightly to replication is deeply troublesome for qualitative research, where replication misses the point of what the work seeks to accomplish. We suggest that transparency advocates conflate replication with trustworthiness. We challenge this conflation on both ontological and methodological grounds, and we offer alternatives for how to (and how not to) think about trustworthiness in qualitative research. Management journals need to tackle the core issues raised by this tumult over transparency by identifying solutions for enhanced trustworthiness that recognize the unique strengths and considerations of different methodological approaches in our field.

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