Talking and Thinking About Qualitative Research

Ellis, Carolyn; Bochner, Arthur P.; Denzin, Norman K.; Lincoln, Yvonna S.; Morse, Janice M.; Pelias, Ronald J.; Richardson, Laurel

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“…Encouraged by Ellis et al (2008) where famous qualitative researchers converse, including Denzin et al, as well as a "conversation" with the editor, I set off on another round of discovery, resonating with Lather (1988, p. 569) who writes "[y] I am a constantly moving subjectivity". A core issue and danger for the supervisory conversationalist is that of reification.…”

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“…Within this perspective, it is possible to find the dramatic (Ellis et al, 2008, p. 257;Goffman, 1969Goffman, , 1967Goffman, /1990Boje, 1994), poetic (Richardson, 1993;Ellis et al, 2008), narrative (Gubrium and Holstein, 2009), and critical. In the critical frame, Denzin and Lincoln (2011, p. 5) describe feminism, Marxism, cultural studies, constructivism and queer theory.…”

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Supervisory conversations on rigour and interpretive research

Whiteley

2012

Qualitative Research Journal

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive narrative account of supervisory conversations with doctoral students. They include providing knowledge and experience about the nature of qualitative and quantitative approaches and their respective histories and rigour requirements. Design/methodological/approach -An introduction reveals the complexity, debates and dialectics that are engaged with during the doctoral supervisory process. Two design issues are discussed. One is research design; the other is supervisor method. Findings -Rigour in interpretive research is distinctive, linked to its characteristics and the unique role of the researcher as an instrument of data collection, conscious of the need to give voice to respondents and preserve their authentic responses. The audit trail is a centrepiece for both rigour and the reflection, reflexivity necessary to address ongoing biases, decisions and dilemmas. Research limitations/implications -Supervisory conversations are dynamic but there is a core, a set of initial conditions and these relate to the ethics and integrity of the doctoral student and the supervisor. Originality/value -The paper penetrates the social space where supervisors and doctoral students interact. Within the text, "advice" and seminal ideas are presented from literature and the supervisor's experience that will inform researchers and demonstrate a supervisor method.

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Supervisory conversations on rigour and interpretive research

Whiteley

2012

Qualitative Research Journal

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“…Historically, there has been a great deal of intra-community critique (O'Reilly & Kiyimba, in press), wherein the very notion of qualitative research has been argued and works claiming to be qualitative have been deemed to be 'not enough like my approach to qualitative research to count as real qualitative research' (see, for example, Pelias' discussion in Ellis et al, 2008).…”

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Is Evidence-Based Practice a Threat to the Progress of the Qualitative Community? Arguments From the Bottom of the Pyramid

Lester

O’Reilly

2015

Qualitative Inquiry

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Although scholars have gone to great lengths to illustrate the value of qualitative research and ensure that it is well represented in all areas of academic life, there remains a gap of equality when compared with quantitative research, which is still viewed by many as superior, specifically in applied fields such as health. This has become particularly true as the evidence-based movement has continued to find its way into discussions around the legitimacy of qualitative research. In this article, we argue that the evidence-based movement, particularly in medicine and health, continues to pose challenges for us as a qualitative community—challenges that we will need to grapple with in the coming years.

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“…Aiming to shock myself out of the habit of focusing on face-to-face interaction and interview accounts, I excluded these from another review of the data. A materio-centric review of the corridors unfolded a new way of knowing, in one of those epiphanies that bestow a moment of grace on the dirty work of repainting the world as sociology (Ellis et al, 2008; see also Denzin, 1989). By writing first-and in minute detail-the stone, plastic, wooden-framed, papery, magnolia-painted materiality of the corridors, I could then-only then-return the participants to their proper places in the ethnography, as parts of a spatialized, materialized, mobilized world in process (Atkinson, 1990;Van Maanen, 1995).…”

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In the Picture or Off the Wall? Ethical Regulation, Research Habitus, and Unpeopled Ethnography

Hurdley

2010

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article focuses on two unintended consequences of ethical regulation of social enquiry: the exclusion of participants and, subsequently, a transformation of research practice. An ethnography of corridor life in a large university building forms the basis of the discussion. Originally intended as a pilot for a broader study of informal networks of power, the project’s aim seemed unachievable. External ethical bureaucracy engendered an overdeveloped sensitivity to doing wrong, resulting in a bizarre form of reflexivity. The first consequence of ethical constraint is, paradoxically, the exclusion of participants and their worlds, as research projects are ever more tightly framed. However, forced to reflect on her research habitus, the author discovered that a conventional qualitative research focus on participants’ narrative/biographic accounts and face-to-face interaction can be similarly restrictive. In conclusion, the author discusses how practicing an unpeopled ethnography can open up space for democratic, innovative research within the confines of current ethical regulation.

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Talking and Thinking About Qualitative Research

Cited by 105 publications

References 17 publications

Supervisory conversations on rigour and interpretive research

Supervisory conversations on rigour and interpretive research

Is Evidence-Based Practice a Threat to the Progress of the Qualitative Community? Arguments From the Bottom of the Pyramid

In the Picture or Off the Wall? Ethical Regulation, Research Habitus, and Unpeopled Ethnography

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