Exiting fieldwork “with grace”: reflections on the unintended consequences of participant observation and researcher-participant relationships

Franco, Paolo; Yang, Ye

doi:10.1108/qmr-07-2020-0094

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“…In our case, the project involved several years of dialogue between ourselves and local government officers, neighbourhood teams and local elected members from MCC. In engaged scholarship, these partnerships can often be rekindled (Barbour et al , 2017), contrasting with the need to carefully create “exit plans” in traditional participant–researcher studies (Franco and Yang, 2021). The construction of ongoing relationships with external partners not only helped to mitigate any initial distrust but also meant MCC and the academic team were well-placed to successfully bid for European funding to extend the existing work by several years.…”

Section: Partnership Workingmentioning

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Researchingwithplaces: on using engaged scholarship in marketing

Steadman

Millington²

2022

QMR

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Purpose As a core element of the marketing mix, place is of central concern within marketing. Yet existing literature typically presents accounts of research about rather than with places. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to argue that engaged scholarship can help academics, practitioners, policymakers and communities to work collaboratively to solve place-based “wicked problems”. Specifically, this paper focuses on high street revitalisation, a challenge frustrating policymakers and communities since the 1980s. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on a mixed-method research project conducted with place-based stakeholders in Manchester, the UK, to discuss the benefits and challenges arising through an engaged scholarship approach. Findings The authors outline several benefits to engaged scholarship, including forming tailored solutions to place-based problems, engendering trust and ongoing research partnerships and generating real-world impact beyond the academy. However, the authors also draw attention to the challenges including political sensitivities within places, additional layers of scrutiny and challenges to dissemination arising through partnership working with organisations external to the university. Originality/value Whereas a range of techniques have been used to research places within marketing, engaged scholarship is lacking. This paper, therefore, provides first-hand insights into the benefits and challenges that the authors experienced using the approach. This is of significance because of the rising importance of generating real-world impact within the academy, which the authors feel requires more institutional support. This paper also suggests Van de Ven’s diamond model of engaged scholarship extends to encompass issues of research governance.

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Researchingwithplaces: on using engaged scholarship in marketing

Steadman

Millington²

2022

QMR

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Navigating the role of clinician-researcher: Insights from a Constructivist Grounded Theory study in traumatic brain injury

Ranola

2022

Australasian Journal of Neuroscience

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Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is an umbrella term for two dementia subtypes Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) and Parkinson’s Disease Dementia (PDD) (Armstrong et al., 2020a; Larrson et al., 2019). Despite being the second most common type of dementia after Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), 1 in 3 cases of LBD are believed to be missed or misdiagnosed (Armstrong et al., 2020a; Chin et al., 2019). Diagnosis is difficult due to widespread clinical and pathological features that overlap with AD (Tang et al., 2015) consequently, it can take multiple consultations, over many years, before individuals receive an accurate diagnosis. (Galvin et al., 2010a). By then quality of life (QoL) has already been significantly impacted. LBD differs from AD in that more frequent non-cognitive symptoms, including autonomic dysfunction, motor and neuro-psychiatric symptoms - delusion, anxiety, depression and apathy (van de Beek et al., 2019) can have devastating effects on social engagement and wellbeing (Larrson et al., 2019). Additionally, fluctuations in cognition, wakefulness, attention, visual hallucinations and sleep behaviours (McKeith et al., 2017, as cited in Larsson et al., 2019, p.1) provide distinct challenges for living with LBD (Boot 2015, as cited in Larsson et al., 2019, p.1). A scoping literature review was conducted to explore support that is available to people with Lewy Body Dementia and family caregivers and to identify gaps in research and service delivery.

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Leaving the field: negotiating disengagement between respondents and ethnographer

Ronsin¹

2022

sociologies

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Exiting fieldwork “with grace”: reflections on the unintended consequences of participant observation and researcher-participant relationships

Cited by 3 publications

References 37 publications

Researchingwithplaces: on using engaged scholarship in marketing

Researchingwithplaces: on using engaged scholarship in marketing

Navigating the role of clinician-researcher: Insights from a Constructivist Grounded Theory study in traumatic brain injury

Leaving the field: negotiating disengagement between respondents and ethnographer

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