Ethical and professional dimensions of socially sensitive research.

Sieber, Joan E.; Stanley, Bárbara

doi:10.1037/0003-066x.43.1.49

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“…Such challenges, as the extant literature reveals, have been explored by the wider disciplines of psychology (Banyard & Flanagan, 2006;Sieber & Stanley, 1988), education (Seidman, 2006;Tillman, 2002), sociology (Birenbaum-Carmeli, Carmeli, & Gornostayev, 2008;Brackenridge, 1999;Miller et al, 1998), public health (Alty & Rodham, 1998;Dickson-Swift, James, Kippen, et al, 2007Dickson-Swift, James, & Liamputtong, 2009), and social research (Lee & Renzetti, 1990;LeeTreweek & Linkogle, 2000). By joining this conversation, we seek to highlight its relevance to contemporary marketing research, and offer insights into the ways researchers construct knowledge about vulnerable consumers.…”

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Exploring researcher vulnerability: Contexts, complications, and conceptualisation

Jafari

Dunnett

Hamilton

et al. 2013

Journal of Marketing Management

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Research involving vulnerable consumer populations is on the increase, and understanding the social consequences of consumption within different marketing contexts has become a common theme across Consumer Culture Theory, transformative consumer research, and critical marketing. Yet the diverse difficulties faced by researchers who investigate consumer vulnerability have not been sufficiently addressed. In line with the need for greater reflexivity in research, this paper reflects on our own research experiences, and highlights the complexities associated with conducting research on sensitive topics in challenging contexts. With reference to such experiences, we illustrate the phenomenon of researcher vulnerability and discuss its implications for knowledge generation within the marketing domain.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Exploring researcher vulnerability: Contexts, complications, and conceptualisation

Jafari

Dunnett

Hamilton

et al. 2013

Journal of Marketing Management

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“…In this description, there was no mention of the participants. Sieber and Stanley (1988) indicate that the source of the data is not even considered in questions of ownership or custodianship.…”

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Lessons From the Participants in Decolonising Research

Barlo¹

2017

LCJ

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This paper reflects on research undertaken as part of a Doctor of Philosophy, focusing on the restoration of contemporary Aboriginal men's dignity. These reflections centre on how the research participants began to train this researcher in decolonising research practices. Personal discovery and growth, as well as developing strong, ethical and reciprocal relationships, are core to doing decolonising research. Yarning as methodology and art as a method of communicating research are presented as ways of building such relationships and promoting personal transformation in research. Key lessons from this research are shared and demonstrate that for this researcher, the greatest act of decolonising research started with addressing his own mindset, which led to the realisation that Indigenous Australia no longer wishes to be studied or seen as requiring someone to lift them up.

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“…Although the market segments research did not explicitly address personal and 'sensitive issues' (Lee, 1993;Renzetti & Lee, 1993, Sieber & Stanley, 1988, participants were given the opportunity to share opinions about their personal politics, government, economic climate, 'green' policies and recycling in their local area -and were quite willing to do so (Greenfield, Midanik, and Rogers, 2000;Sturges & Hanrahan, 2004). Indeed for potentially sensitive matters some argue that telephone interviews might be more suitable than face-to-face interactions (Greenfield, Midanik & Rogers, 2000;SturgesSturges & Hanrahan, 2004, Trier-Bieniek, 2012.…”

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Researching a segmented market: reflections on telephone interviewing

Lord¹,

Bolton

Fleming

et al. 2016

MRR

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Purpose The purpose of this paper was to review the effectiveness of telephone interviewing for capturing data and to consider in particular the challenges faced by telephone interviewers when capturing information about market segments. Design/methodology/approach The platform for this methodological critique was a market segment analysis commissioned by Sport Wales which involved a series of 85 telephone interviews completed during 2010. Two focus groups involving the six interviewers involved in the study were convened to reflect on the researchers’ experiences and the implications for business and management research. Findings There are three principal sets of findings. First, although telephone interviewing is generally a cost-effective data collection method, it is important to consider both the actual costs (i.e. time spent planning and conducting interviews) as well as the opportunity costs (i.e. missed appointments, “chasing participants”). Second, researchers need to be sensitised to and sensitive to the demographic characteristics of telephone interviewees (insofar as these are knowable) because responses are influenced by them. Third, the anonymity of telephone interviews may be more conducive for discussing sensitive issues than face-to-face interactions. Originality/value The present study adds to this modest body of literature on the implementation of telephone interviewing as a research technique of business and management. It provides valuable methodological background detail about the intricate, personal experiences of researchers undertaking this method “at a distance” and without visual cues, and makes explicit the challenges of telephone interviewing for the purposes of data capture.

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Ethical and professional dimensions of socially sensitive research.

Cited by 170 publications

References 17 publications

Exploring researcher vulnerability: Contexts, complications, and conceptualisation

Exploring researcher vulnerability: Contexts, complications, and conceptualisation

Lessons From the Participants in Decolonising Research

Researching a segmented market: reflections on telephone interviewing

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