Reflecting on Violent Ruptures and Loss in Qualitative Research: A Poetic Inquiry

2021 ◽  
pp. 194084472110510
Author(s):  
Tanja Burkhard ◽  
Youmna Deiri
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
Immigration And Customs Enforcement ◽  
The One ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
Recent Immigration

Presenting poetic approaches to qualitative inquiry, two immigrant educational researchers from different minoritized communities explore their loss of research participants due to increased state-enforced violence in the context of recent immigration policies (e.g., increased presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in immigrant communities and anti-Muslim rhetoric) through poetic inquiry. Presenting the processes and products of engaging with participant loss through poetry, the authors highlight a theoretical and methodological approach to qualitative inquiry, which works toward building intimacies among women of color feminist educational researchers. On the one hand, this work aims to develop qualitative methodologies that seek to reduce harm and violence and foster understanding among different communities of researchers and their participants. On the other hand, it seeks to illustrate how poetic approaches to qualitative research can be used as a reflexive tool to explore the hidden socio-emotional components of the educational research process.

scholarly journals Do It for the Culture: The Case for Memes in Qualitative Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110258
Author(s):  
Constance Iloh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Rapport Building ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
Remote Data

Memes are a prominent feature of global life in the 21st century. The author asserts that memes are significant to current and future qualitative research. In particular, the text establishes memes as: (a) part of everyday communication, expression, and explanation, thus useful in qualitative research; (b) valuable cultural units and symbols; (c) forms of rapport building and cultivating relational research; (d) approaches that bolster and sustain remote data collection; (e) methods that infuse agency, humor, and creativity into the research process. The author then showcases distinctive ways memes can be effectively incorporated in qualitative research pursuits and publications. The article concludes with the necessity of data collection and representation approaches that advance the meaningfulness and cultural-relevance of qualitative inquiry.

The Research Audit Trail: Methodological Guidance for Application in Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Carcary
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Information Systems Management ◽  
Audit Trail ◽  
Research Outcomes ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Research Findings

The merits of qualitative research remain an issue of ongoing debate and investigation. Qualitative researchers emphasise issues such as credibility, dependability, and transferability in demonstrating the trustworthiness of their research outcomes. This refers to the extent to which the research outcomes are conceptually sound and serves as the basis for enabling other researchers to assess their value. Carcary (2009) proposed trustworthiness in qualitative inquiry could be established through developing a physical and intellectual research audit trail – a strategy that involves maintaining an audit of all key stages and theoretical, methodological, and analytical decisions, as well as documenting how a researcher’s thinking evolves throughout a research project. Since 2009, this publication has been cited in greater than 600 studies. The current paper provides an analysis of the use and value of the research audit trail, based on the author’s application of this strategy across diverse research projects in the field of Information Systems management over a ten year time period. Based on a critical reflection on insights gained through these projects, this paper provides an in‑depth discussion of a series of guidelines for developing and applying the research audit trail in practice. These guidelines advance existing thinking and provide practical recommendations in relation to maintaining a research audit trail throughout a research project. Based on these guidelines and the core issues that should be covered at a physical and intellectual research audit trail level, a checklist that can be tailored to each project’s context is provided to support novice researchers and those who are new to the research audit trail strategy. As such, this paper demonstrates commitment to rigor in qualitative research. It provides a practical contribution in terms of advancing guidelines and providing a supporting checklist for ensuring the quality and transparency of theoretical, methodological, and analytical processes in qualitative inquiry. Embedding these guidelines throughout the research process will promote critical reflection among researchers across all stages of qualitative research and, in tracing through the researcher’s logic, will provide the basis for enabling other researchers to independently assess whether the research findings can serve as a platform for further investigation.

scholarly journals From cartonera publishing practices to trans-formal methods for qualitative research

2020 ◽  
pp. 146879412091451
Author(s):  
Lucy Bell ◽  
Alex Flynn ◽  
Patrick O’Hare
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Aesthetic Practice ◽  
Activist Anthropology ◽  
The One

Interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and counter-disciplinarity are the hallmark of cultural studies and qualitative research, as scholars over the past three decades have discussed through extensive self-reflexive inquiry into their own unstable and ever-shifting methods (Denzin and Lincoln, 2018; Dicks et al., 2006: 78; Grossberg, 2010). Building on the interdisciplinary thought of Jacques Rancière and Caroline Levine on the one hand and traditions of participatory action research and activist anthropology on the other, we bring the methods conversation forward by shifting the focus from disciplines to forms and by making a case for aesthetic practice as qualitative research process. In this paper, the question of methods is approached through the action-based Cartonera Publishing Project with editoriales cartoneras in Latin America – community publishers who make low-cost books out of materials recovered from the street in the attempt to democratise and decolonise literary/artistic production – and specifically through our process-oriented, collaborative work with four cartonera publishers in Brazil and Mexico. Guided by the multiple forms of cartonera knowledge production, which are rooted not in academic research but rather in aesthetic practice and community relations, we offer an innovative ‘trans-formal’ methodological framework, which opens up new pathways for practitioners and researchers to work, think and act across social, cultural and aesthetic forms.

scholarly journals Is There a Definition? Ruminating on Poetic Inquiry, Strawberries and the Continued Growth of the Field

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Vincent
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
History Of

Over the last ten years, Poetic Inquiry (PI) has proven itself as an emergent arts-based research methodology. It has gained greater acceptance in the larger community of qualitative research due in large part to the hundreds of published studies that employ the writing or analysis of poetry as a major focus of the research process (Finley, 2003; Prendergast, Leggo & Sameshima, 2009; Prendergast & Galvin, 2012). However, despite this greater acceptance and increase in studies found in the literature, there has not been a critical contemporary exploration of the history, theory and method of PI that could lend itself to defining what the method is, for those unfamiliar with it. This article provides a summary of PI as it exists in the literature today. This includes surveying the rhizomatic history of the method, exploring debates around who should or should not use the method and conversation around the current uses of PI in qualitative research.

Informing Client-Centred Practice through Qualitative Inquiry: Evaluating the Quality of Qualitative Research

2002 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 175-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Whalley Hammell
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Consumer Involvement ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Critical Scrutiny

Occupational therapists are increasingly embracing qualitative research methods yet little published advice exists in the occupational therapy literature to enable readers to gauge the quality and relevance of researchers' work. If qualitative research is to provide convincing evidence with which to inform theory and practice, it must be capable of withstanding critical scrutiny and practitioners must be given sufficient information with which to evaluate the strength and plausibility of the evidence reported. The process of undertaking qualitative research and of writing and critiquing subsequent reports is not about assessing adherence to rigid rules but of ensuring the appropriateness and thoroughness of data collection, analysis and reporting, given the nature and context of the issue. The espousal of a client-centred ethic also demands consideration of research relevance and usefulness to clients and the degree of consumer involvement throughout the research process. This paper examines an evaluative framework that may be used to assess the quality of qualitative evidence as this is both researched and reported. Recourse to a set of general strategies — used where appropriate – will serve to enhance the quality of qualitative research and assert its potential to inform the client-centred, evidence-based practice of occupational therapy.

Qualitative Research in Veterinary Medical Education: Part 1—Principles of Qualitative Design

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 511-518
Author(s):  
Eva King ◽  
Elizabeth J. Norman ◽  
Liz H. Mossop ◽  
Kate A. Cobb ◽  
Susan M. Matthew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Data Sampling ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies

Qualitative methodologies are relative newcomers to health sciences education research. While they may look very different to their quantitative counterparts in terms of size and scope, when well-applied they offer a fresh perspective and generate valuable research findings. Although qualitative research is being increasingly conducted in veterinary medical education, there are few contextualized resources to assist those who would like to develop their expertise in this area. In this article, we address this by introducing the principles of qualitative research design in a veterinary medical education context. Drawing from a range of contemporary resources, we explore the types of research goals and questions that are amenable to qualitative inquiry and discuss the process of formulating a worthwhile research question. We explain what research paradigms are and introduce readers to some of the methodological options available to them in qualitative research. Examples from veterinary medical education are used to illustrate key points. In a second companion article, we will focus on the decisions that need to be made regarding data sampling, collection, and analysis. We will also consider how qualitative research is evaluated, and discuss how qualitative findings are applied. Taken together, the two articles build an understanding of qualitative research, illuminate its potential to contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning in veterinary medical education, and equip readers with an improved capacity to appraise its value.

The Idea of Equality and Qualitative Inquiry

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Winter
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research ◽  
The Ideal

With his path-breaking The Qualitative Manifesto. A Call to Arms (2010), Norman Denzin calls for qualitative inquiry to be carried out with the aim of contributing to the empowerment of subjects involved in the research. He pleads passionately and vehemently in favor of a research process that is led by the ideal of social justice. My contribution wants to plead for making radical equality between researchers and research subjects a core element of qualitative inquiries as well. For this purpose, I will turn to the work of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière, who has been largely ignored in qualitative inquiry. His work, though, is of central importance for critical qualitative research. The idea of equality opens up a new and more profound understanding of politics that would allow us to specify the political meaning of qualitative studies in late capitalism more accurately.

scholarly journals The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Insights and Implications

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Alan M. Jacobs ◽  
Tim Büthe ◽  
Ana Arjona ◽  
Leonardo R. Arriola ◽  
Eva Bellin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Group Leader ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Deliberative Process ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Practical Guidance ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
Made In

In recent years, a variety of efforts have been made in political science to enable, encourage, or require scholars to be more open and explicit about the bases of their empirical claims and, in turn, make those claims more readily evaluable by others. While qualitative scholars have long taken an interest in making their research open, reflexive, and systematic, the recent push for overarching transparency norms and requirements has provoked serious concern within qualitative research communities and raised fundamental questions about the meaning, value, costs, and intellectual relevance of transparency for qualitative inquiry. In this Perspectives Reflection, we crystallize the central findings of a three-year deliberative process—the Qualitative Transparency Deliberations (QTD)—involving hundreds of political scientists in a broad discussion of these issues. Following an overview of the process and the key insights that emerged, we present summaries of the QTD Working Groups’ final reports. Drawing on a series of public, online conversations that unfolded at www.qualtd.net, the reports unpack transparency’s promise, practicalities, risks, and limitations in relation to different qualitative methodologies, forms of evidence, and research contexts. Taken as a whole, these reports—the full versions of which can be found in the Supplementary Materials—offer practical guidance to scholars designing and implementing qualitative research, and to editors, reviewers, and funders seeking to develop criteria of evaluation that are appropriate—as understood by relevant research communities—to the forms of inquiry being assessed. We dedicate this Reflection to the memory of our coauthor and QTD working group leader Kendra Koivu.1

scholarly journals Catching the “Tail/Tale” of Teaching Qualitative Inquiry to Novice Researchers

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thalia Mulvihill ◽  
Raji Swaminatha ◽  
Lucy Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
State Universities ◽  
Inquiry Teaching ◽  
Critical Friends ◽  
The Past ◽  
Analytic Process ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies

This article responds to the call for deeper examination of qualitative inquiry teaching practices by presenting representative examples from the pedagogies of three teacher-educators who have taught Qualitative Research Methods courses for the past 15 years. We focus in particular on the pedagogical complexities of teaching data analysis, which is a topic that remains under-theorized and under-represented in contemporary scholarship on qualitative methodologies. Using a critical friends framework, we analyze and synthesize our pedagogical responses to key dilemmas we have encountered in our respective contexts, all state universities, to introducing qualitative inquiry to novice researchers who often enter the analytic process with positivist notions of knowledge creation. They sometimes enter the analytic process with the belief if they can only “catch the tail” of this thing called qualitative research they will be able to “do it right.” Yet, as the metaphor implies, catching a fierce beast by the tail, thinking you can control its actions, can intrude on the inductive and holistic character of the qualitative inquiry process.

German Philosophies of Qualitative Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svend Brinkmann
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Essential Idea ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies

This chapter presents the phenomenological and hermeneutic philosophies that have been immensely relevant for qualitative research. Phenomenology began with Husserl and was continued by Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, and it was developed into tools for qualitative inquiry by scholars such as Giorgi. Hermeneutics dates back to Scheiermacher and Dilthey, and it was in a sense merged with phenomenology by Heidegger and brought up to date by Gadamer in particular. Many qualitative methodologies employ strategies from phenomenology and hermeneutics, which can be condensed to the essential idea of making the obvious obvious. The difference between phenomenology and hermeneutics in their purer forms concerns the extent to which they view interpretation (rather than description) as a necessary component in making that which is implicit in an “obvious” way explicit.

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