“…Indeed, the few recent articles that have heeded the call to explore qualitative methods in relation to Human Resource Development (ibid; see also Gibson & Hanes, 2003; Githens, 2015; Grenier & Collins, 2016), have been relatively bold; embracing research methods not commonly seen in the broader fields of management and organization studies (see Lê & Schmid, 2019; Lê & Schmid, 2022). Specifically, papers have centered on autoethnography (Grenier & Collins, 2016), phenomenology (Gibson & Hanes, 2003; Kuchinke, 2023) and associated techniques of lived experience (Lochmiller, 2023), discursive methods (Lester et al, 2023), critical action research (Githens, 2015), visual analysis (Gisby et al, forthcoming), and diffractive analysis (Li, 2023). It is thus an exciting time for qualitative approaches to human resource development.…”