1st Edition

Qualitative Researcher Vulnerability Negotiating, Experiencing and Embracing

262 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Qualitative Researcher Vulnerability provides conceptual, experiential, and practical insights into the vulnerability of the qualitative researcher. Compared to participants’ vulnerability, researcher vulnerability has seen limited attention in the qualitative research process, but yet it is an important consideration. Drawing on an interdisciplinary group of authors—across criminology,... Read more

Introduction: The Relevance and Importance of Researcher Vulnerability in Qualitative Research

Bryan C. Clift, Ioannis Costas Batlle, Kia Banks, Josie Rodohan, Sheree Bekker, and Katharina Chudzikowski

1. Vulnerability, the Pursuit of Knowledge, and the Humanity of Doing Research

Milli Lake and Alexandra C. Hartman

Section I: Strategies for Negotiating Researcher Vulnerability

2. Research Journaling to Deal with Vulnerabilities in Research

Nicole Brown

3. Qualitative Analysis in Online Research: Protecting Against Researcher Vulnerabilities

Olivia Brown, Julie Gore, and Adam Joinson

4. Supporting Emotionally Demanding Research: Developing Guidance for a University Research Centre

Susie Smillie and Julie Riddell

5. Addressing Researcher Vulnerability with the Trauma and Resilience Informed Research Principles and Practices Framework

Natalie Edelman

Section II: Experiences of Researcher Vulnerability

6. Sticking Your Head Above the Parapet: On the Importance of Researcher Resilience in Auto/biographical Writing

Kate Woodthorpe

7. Affecting Accounts: Autobiographical Memoirs and the Vulnerable Researcher

Cassie Lowe

8. Researcher, Fighter, Cunt: Vulnerability and Violence in the MMA Field

Zoe John

9. Ethnographic Vulnerabilities: Power, Politics, and Possibility

Devra Waldman, Michael Dao, Hugo Ceron-Anaya, and Michael D. Giardina

Section III: Embracing Researcher Vulnerability

10. Femme Praxis: Using Femme Theory to Foster Vulnerability within Research Design and Institutions

Rhea Ashley Hoskin and Lilith Whiley

11. Framing Transdisciplinary Research as an Assemblage: A Case Study from a Mental Health Setting

Mark Batterham and Aled Singleton

12. ‘Please Explain to Me How I’m Vulnerable’: Learning How to Rework Experiences of Researcher Vulnerability by Listening Carefully to Care-Experienced Young People

Dawn Mannay

Biography

Bryan C. Clift is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research (CQR) in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Department for Health at the University of Bath, UK.

Ioannis Costas Batlle is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK, and a Co-Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research.

Sheree Bekker is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department for Health at the University of Bath, UK. She is a member of the Centre for Qualitative Research, Centre for Health and Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (CHI2PS), and UK Collaborating Centre on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (UKCCIIS).

Katharina Chudzikowsi is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Organisation Studies at the School of Management, University of Bath, UK.