In Another World: Five Years Later – A Phenomenological Nursing Inquiry Into Meanings, “Essences” of Mothers’ Lived Experience With Perinatal Death of a Wished-For Baby Unfolding Over Time

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Sarah Steen Lauterbach
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Perinatal Death ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Nursing Research ◽  
Over Time

This article discusses the author’s qualitative nursing research, which used M. van Manen’s and P. Munhall’s method of phenomenology to investigate mothers’ experience with the death of a wished-for baby. The findings from the original doctoral inquiry are discussed, along with the findings from the 5-year followup with participants from the original research. Further, this paper articulates the first use of a longitudinal perspective to phenomenology and proposes its use when looking at meanings in human experience over time. In addition, there is a discussion of the balancing of therapeutic and research imperatives and the emergence in qualitative research of a caring imperative into sensitive human phenomena.

Knitting Feminist Politics: Exploring a Yarn-Bombing Performance in a Postdisaster City

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Farinosi ◽  
Leopoldina Fortunati
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Knitted Fabric ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The City ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Research Studies

The aim of this article is to explore urban knitting as a worldwide social movement, rather than solely a kind of “inoffensive urban graffiti” made with knitted fabric. Building on the available literature and original research, the article argues that this movement weaves together elements from craftivism, domesticity, handicraft, art, and feminism. It then explores a specific urban knitting initiative, called “Mettiamoci una pezza” (“Let’s patch it”), carried out in L’Aquila, Italy, 3 years after the earthquake that devastated the city in 2009. To analyze the sociopolitical aspects of this initiative, a series of qualitative research studies was conducted over time, to which were added semistructured interviews with the initiative’s local organizers. The findings show that the initiative in L’Aquila clearly exhibits the five original features of the urban knitting movement that emerge from the literature as being characteristic of this movement.

scholarly journals COVID-19: Qualitative Research With Vulnerable Populations

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Kashica J. Webber-Ritchey ◽  
Shannon D. Simonovich ◽  
Roxanne S. Spurlark
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Nursing Research ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
The World

With COVID-19 affecting all types of research, the authors of this article contribute to the discussions on how COVID-19 affects the world of qualitative nursing research in irrefutable ways. Underrepresented and vulnerable populations are faced with higher rates and severity of COVID-19, heightening the need to better address their health needs, which require their voices to be heard. Moreover, nurses’ perspectives on practicing during COVID-19 are needed. These nurses are vulnerable and their voices must be heard. Qualitative research methodology is advantageous to bringing attention to the lived experience of others as they unfold. Thus, we offer suggestions to aid in the collection and interpretation of qualitative data among vulnerable populations. We also provide practical tips for qualitative researchers, including an exemplar of conducting qualitative research among vulnerable nurses in light of COVID-19.

Phenomenology for the Holistic Nurse Researcher: Underpinnings of Descriptive and Interpretive Traditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl M. Patton
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Nursing Research ◽  
Qualitative Research Method ◽  
Nursing Science

Phenomenological research is increasing in popularity in nursing research for good reason. The qualitative research method allows an in-depth exploration of patient lived experience. This knowledge has the potential to enhance quality of holistic patient care. To undertake this method of inquiry, however, it is imperative that holistic nurse researchers understand the philosophical underpinnings of the method and are familiar with the two major types of phenomenology in order to approach the study in a scholarly manner. The purpose of this article is to explicate the method’s historical roots of phenomenology, its evolution, its two major traditions and their differences, and some of the specialized terminology unique to phenomenology’s jargon so that their studies can contribute to sound nursing science and complete patient care.

scholarly journals Co-sexuality : the lived experience of organizing around sexuality

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Cristin A. Compton
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Master Narrative ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
Core Part ◽  
Over Time

Sex and sexuality are a core part of the human experience. What has been socially constructed as "normal" sexuality (e.g., acts, behaviors, preferences, conversation topics, vocabulary, etc.) has changed dramatically over time. Because sex and sexuality are fundamentally acts of power (Foucault, 1978/1990), human sexuality is a highly regulated construct that people organize around. This is particularly true in the context of the workplace, where policies and daily practices both explicitly and implicitly regulate performances of and communication about sexuality. This dissertation explores the process of co-sexuality: how "normal" sexuality is communicatively constructed in the modern Midwestern workplace as well as how people organize around the constructed norm. Participants identifying with a variety of sexualities, genders, and professions drew on the master narrative of the Midwest, the expectation of aggressive sexuality, and acts of silence/ing to describe the process of co-sexuality. Participants also described feeling simultaneously pulled toward and pushed away from the "normal" sexual center and the complex identity work needed to remain effective in the workplace. Implications for theory, sexuality scholarship, and political implications are also discussed.

When Culturally Significant Songs are Decontextualised: The Initiation Song Somagwaza, A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Dowling ◽  
Somikazi Deyi ◽  
Anele Gobodwana
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Ritual Music ◽  
Constant Comparative Method ◽  
Small Focus ◽  
Over Time

While there have been a number of studies on the decontextualisation and secularisation of traditional ritual music in America, Taiwan and other parts of the globe, very little has been written on the processes and transformations that South Africa’s indigenous ceremonial songs go through over time. This study was prompted by the authors’ interest in, and engagement with the Xhosa initiation song Somagwaza, which has been re-imagined as a popular song, but has also purportedly found its way into other religious spaces. In this article, we attempted to investigate the extent to which the song Somagwaza is still associated with the Xhosa initiation ritual and to analyse evidence of it being decontextualised and secularised in contemporary South Africa. Our methodology included an examination of the various academic treatments of the song, an analysis of the lyrics of a popular song, bearing the same name, holding small focus group discussions, and distributing questionnaires to speakers of isiXhosa on the topic of the song. The data gathered were analysed using the constant comparative method of analysing qualitative research.

Studying Globalization at Home

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Interpretive Methods ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
At Home

This chapter documents the ethnographic context in which the interviews and participant observation were conducted for the study presented in this book. It also situates the study within the context of narrative inquiry and develops arguments about the role of self-reflexivity in doing ethnography at “home” and producing qualitative forms of knowledge that are based on personal, experiential, and cultural narratives. It is argued that there is significant interest in the adoption of interpretive methods or qualitative research in psychology. The qualitative approaches in psychology present a provocative and complex vision of how the key concepts related to describing and interpreting cultural codes, social practices, and lived experience of others are suffused with both poetical and political elements of culture. The epistemological and ontological assumptions undergirding qualitative research reflect multiple “practices of inquiry” and methodologies that have different orientations, assumptions, values, ideologies, and criterion of excellence.

scholarly journals Are We Closer to International Consensus on the Term ‘Food Literacy’?: A Systematic Scoping Review of Its Use in the Academic Literature (1998–2019)

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 2006
Author(s):  
Courtney Thompson ◽  
Jean Adams ◽  
Helen Anna Vidgen
Keyword(s):  
Scoping Review ◽  
International Agency ◽  
Original Research ◽  
International Consensus ◽  
Food Literacy ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Review Articles ◽  
Article Type ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Over Time

(1) Background: The term ‘food literacy’ has gained momentum globally; however, a lack of clarity around its definition has resulted in inconsistencies in use of the term. Therefore, the objective was to conduct a systematic scoping review to describe the use, reach, application and definitions of the term ‘food literacy’ over time. (2) Methods: A search was conducted using the PRISMA-ScR guidelines in seven research databases without any date limitations up to 31 December 2019, searching simply for use of the term ‘food literacy’. (3) Results: Five hundred and forty-nine studies were included. The term ‘food literacy’ was used once in 243 articles (44%) and mentioned by researchers working in 41 countries. Original research was the most common article type (n = 429, 78%). Food literacy was published across 72 In Cites disciplines, with 456 (83%) articles from the last 5 years. In articles about food literacy (n = 82, 15%), review articles were twice as prevalent compared to the total number of articles (n = 10, 12% vs. n = 32, 6%). Fifty-one different definitions of food literacy were cited. (4) Conclusions: ‘Food literacy’ has been used frequently and broadly across differing article types and disciplines in academic literature internationally. However, agreement on a standardised definition of food literacy endorsed by a peak international agency is needed in order to progress the field.

scholarly journals Using Secondary Analysis to Maintain a Critically Reflexive Approach to Qualitative Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Research History ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Over Time

Maintaining a ‘critical reflexivity’ ( Heaphy 2008 ) or ‘investigative epistemology’ ( Mason 2007 ) in relation to the sedimented assumptions built up over the course of one's own research history and embedded in common research boundaries, is difficult. The type of secondary analysis discussed in this paper is not an easy or quick ‘fix’ to the important issue of how such assumptions can embed themselves over time in methods chosen and questions asked. Even though archived studies are often accompanied by relatively detailed metadata, finding relevant data and getting a grasp on a sample, is time-consuming. However, it is argued that close examination of rawer data than those presented in research reports from carefully chosen studies combining similar foci and epistemological approaches but with differently situated samples, can help. Here, this process highlighted assumptions underlying the habitual disciplinary locations and constructions of so-called ‘vulnerable’ as opposed to ‘ordinary’ samples, leading the author to scrutinise aspects of her previous research work in this light and providing important insights for the development of further projects.

Re-Envisioning Evidence Gap Maps With Qualitative Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-329
Author(s):  
Shannon Simonovich ◽  
Kristine L. Florczak
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Nursing Research ◽  
Evidence Map ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evidence Summaries

Evidence gap maps (EGMs) are the concern of this column. A brief history of evidence summaries including literature and systematic reviews is presented followed by a discussion of the process of creating an evidence map. Then, concerns about a lack of inclusion of qualitative nursing research in particular are addressed.

scholarly journals Path to Accessibility: The current state of disability access in Aotearoa New Zealand museums

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Riah King-Wall
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
Audience Development ◽  
Research Frameworks

<p>The New Museology posits museums and galleries as institutions entwined with issues of social justice and political responsibility. The relationship between museums and their communities is the founding aspect of this theoretical and practical framework. ‘Path to Accessibility’ explores the ways museums and galleries around Aotearoa New Zealand are engaging with communities of people with disabilities, consulting both with representatives from the disability sector and cultural organisations from around the country. This dissertation addresses a current gap in the literature available on how New Zealand museums are adapting to the needs of these audiences; a shift that is necessary given one in four New Zealanders identifies as having lived experience of disability. It also forges a valuable contribution to the field of museum studies by drawing on theory such as audience development and visitor research, and utilising emancipatory research frameworks from disability studies, as well as conducting original research on an under-examined topic.  The research comprised a multi-method approach to ensure credibility. Focus group and interview stages collected the experiences and viewpoints of existing museum visitors with disabilities. This provided a foundation on which to create a nationwide survey of 41 museums and galleries. The survey explored multiple aspects of disability access, including physical ingress, inclusive exhibition design, tailored public programming, digital accessibility, and levels of disability representation in staff and management positions.  The findings of this research project reveal that museums and galleries in Aotearoa New Zealand are for the most part considering disability access in some way. However, actioning related initiatives is often limited to achieving minimum legislative requirements rather than approaching it comprehensively as part of wider audience development strategies. The analysis of data gathered puts forward a number of suggestions around improving practice in New Zealand museums, central to which is establishing relationships with communities of people with disabilities and their advocacy groups to ensure long-term sustainability. These recommendations have global applicability for museum practice as comparative overseas studies demonstrate strong similarities to the New Zealand context.</p>

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