{"title":"The world café is an unmethod within co-produced research","authors":"J. Monforte, Jake Netherway, Brett W. Smith","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2023.2239728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2023.2239728","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The world café (WC) has gained popularity as a participatory method for collecting qualitative data. In this article, we present an instrumental case study -the Moving Social Work cafés- to illuminate why and how the WC might be applied within co-produced research. Our principal argument is that the WC constitutes a coherent and effective means for living up to the principles and values of co-production, as long as it is not treated as a method. We also contend that the WC should be approached as an unmethod, and we explain this approach through the metaphors of jazz and contact improvisation. Broadly, the article encourages qualitative researchers to resist the temptation to methodologize processes that have more potential when they remain constitutionally immature.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"20 1","pages":"398 - 419"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46436828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Holders of knowledge are communities, not academic institutions”: lessons from involving minoritised older people as co-researchers in a study of loneliness in later life","authors":"Natalie Cotterell, T. Buffel","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2023.2180463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2023.2180463","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A growing body of work suggests that co-research with older adults contributes to a better understanding of later experienced health and social problems. Yet, few studies have involved minoritised older people as co-researchers, and there has been a lack of critical appraisal of challenges encountered in the process. In response, this paper presents lessons from a project which was aimed at co-producing research to explore experiences of loneliness with and by ethnically and sexually minoritised older people (50+) in Greater Manchester (United Kingdom). The paper presents findings based upon field notes and focus groups with ten older co-researchers reflecting on their motivations,roles, and responsibilities. Four themes will be critically assessed: power and privilege; co-research as an extractive process; co-ownership; and time and financial constraints. At the core of this paper is an examination of how the power held by academics shape opportunities for individuals to meaningfully engage in co-research.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"20 1","pages":"441 - 470"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46697240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Henrik Skovlund, Line Lerche Mørck, M. Celosse-Andersen
{"title":"The art of not being neutral in qualitative research","authors":"Henrik Skovlund, Line Lerche Mørck, M. Celosse-Andersen","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2023.2223529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2023.2223529","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article is a contribution to the ongoing dispute about ethical and methodological standards of neutrality within qualitative research. By invoking the notions of friendship-based research and situated ethics, we discuss important ethical dilemmas that can arise in research processes when informant and researcher develop friendship-like relations. We consider the benefits and drawbacks of such an approach, especially when working within sensitive fields – in this case, the impact of psychiatric diagnoses and gang exit processes on identity formation. We challenge traditional ideals of personal non-involvement in qualitative research, particularly with regard to ethical issues by analyzing and discussing a case of unforeseen events during the establishment of a research group that transformed a formal informant – researcher relationship into friendship-based research.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"20 1","pages":"363 - 381"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41927893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The promise of agency in the narrative productions methodology. Thinking through decolonial feminisms","authors":"Núria Sadurní-Balcells","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2023.2217509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2023.2217509","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Narrative Productions Methodology (NPM) is a methodological tool grounded in feminist epistemologies, particularly in situated knowledges. In the NPM, a Narrative is co-created between researcher and participant, which has raised interest in many researchers and participants alike. The possibility to modify the text as they wish is an effort to foster participants’ agency. However, the promise of agency is undelivered. Throughout the article, a feminist decolonial approach is used to understand how colonial difference affects communication between researcher and participant. The privileging of gender as the site of subordination in feminist epistemologies is also questioned in the article and linked to the NPM. Finally, the aporia of hospitality is brought into the conversation to discuss how researcher and participant relate to each other in the NPM. This allows for deepening into the effects of the colonial matrix of power in the NPM and, thus, the problem with participants’ agency.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43057984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chronotopic diffraction: an analytical device for narrative production methodology applied to ‘adjustment to disability’","authors":"Laura Sanmiquel-Molinero","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2023.2217503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2023.2217503","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article advances an analytical device in the field of Narrative Production Methodology (NPM) called ‘Chronotopic Diffraction’ (CD) by presenting partial results of an ongoing research project with people who have recently become disabled. Firstly, the paper illustrates how the bakhtinian notion of ‘chronotope’ has different meanings that enrich the epistemological and ethico political principles of NPM. Secondly, I describe the process of constructing a Narrative through the optics of CD, which takes the form of a diary. Thirdly, I demonstrate how CD allows us to grasp that: (a) Disability and adjustment to it emerge as a liminal chronotope if we let changes in subjectivities appear in the Narrative. (b) Mal/adjusting to a disability is a process that unfolds in the site of Narrative construction itself. (c) Situating power relations between researcher and the participant allows us to be responsible for the phenomena that emerge in our inquiry.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47009798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. DeCosta, T. Skinner, J. Sørensen, Martha Krogh Topperzer, D. Grabowski
{"title":"Narrative and play-based interviewing - a framework for eliciting the perspectives of young children","authors":"P. DeCosta, T. Skinner, J. Sørensen, Martha Krogh Topperzer, D. Grabowski","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2023.2195366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2023.2195366","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to provide researchers a detailed framework for conducting high-quality research with young children 3–6 years of age. We argue that young children’s insider perspectives, perceptions and experiences are underrepresented in research owing to methodological challenges. In this article, we present a narrative and play-based approach to eliciting the perspectives of young children, 3–6 years of age, through a developmentally sensitive and child-centred approach to interviewing. We will present a practical step-by-step guide to conducting narrative and play-based interviews with young children. Throughout the article, we will provide practical examples and insights from young children. We will discuss the theory and guiding principles of child-centredness and the child’s perspective that underpin the method. Last, we will consider the advantages and limitations of the method.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"20 1","pages":"337 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46962434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“It is like the king and his kingdom”: mapping constellations via the model of the agonistic self methodology (MAS-M)","authors":"S. Grbić, Vladimir Džinović, D. Vesić","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2023.2201199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2023.2201199","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Building on the Dialogical Self Theory (DST) and the Model of Agonistic Self (MAS), this paper introduces the Model of Agonistic Self Methodology (MAS-M). This approach employs constellations as the interpretative framework for the qualitative analysis of data on the self-in-context. Constellations are defined as wider patterns of interactions between voices which follow specific and repetitive scenarios. In order to develop MAS-M, reflexive thematic analysis was performed on individual reports written after interviewing nine elementary school teachers. The data was gathered during two-stage interview process employing the Agonistic Self Interview (ASI), which was introduced into the standard MAS-M procedure. We identified six constellations, whose structure and dynamics were formally described: The King and His Kingdom constellation, Crisis Intervention, Defense of Purpose, Value Conflict, Temporary Inclusion of Sidelined Perspectives, and Reflection. We will discuss the psychological function of each constellation, and their future application as a practical, diagnostic, and research framework.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"20 1","pages":"289 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47425149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking the dialogical dimension of narrative productions beyond co-construction: unveiling the role of disagreement, contradictions, and dispute","authors":"Nicolás Schöngut-Grollmus, Antonia Larrain, Javiera Navarro Marshall, María-Alejandra Energici","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2023.2191356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2023.2191356","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Narrative productions methodology (NPM) constitutes a social research technique that, within feminist epistemologies and, in particular, Haraway’s situated knowledge, seeks to produce partial knowledge from co-writing practices of research texts between researcher and participant. The question that emerges is the extent to which NPM goes beyond co-construction to involve a deeper sense of dialogism, in which alterity is not dissolved but remains as a tensioned difference. The aim of this paper is to explore how dialogizing NPM can improve narratives as a feminist research tool. This has political and epistemological implications, as in the construction of knowledge some validation mechanisms dominated by specific groups have been privileged. As a consequence, not all knowledge has the same recognition, and feminist epistemologies argue against this over-representation. The political and epistemological implications of these suggestions are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42893347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The methodological and epistemic narrative of narrative productions","authors":"Joan Pujol-Tarrés","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2023.2183914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2023.2183914","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48210242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical realism and qualitative research in psychology","authors":"M. Willis","doi":"10.1080/14780887.2022.2157782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2022.2157782","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Qualitative researchers wishing to circumnavigate the limitations of positivism, on the one hand, and strong constructionism, on the other, tend to be attracted to critical realism (CR), which offers a middle ground between the two: CR combines ontological realism and epistemological relativism. As a philosophical position for qualitative research, CR has been adopted by researchers utilising diverse data collection and analytic methods. However, there are at least two distinct approaches claiming the CR name: one developed by Joseph Maxwell, with qualitative research specifically in mind, and one developed by Roy Bhaskar and colleagues, as a general philosophy of natural and social sciences. In this paper I compare these two forms of CR on four dimensions, which on the surface they appear to share: (1) what does ‘critical’ mean; (2) epistemological relativism; (3) ontological realism; (4) causality. It is obvious that, below the surface when the details are examined, the two approaches to CR differ considerably on at least the last three dimensions, if not all four. I propose four reasons for preferring Bhaskar’s CR over Maxwell’s CR, arguing the former is more appropriate for qualitative research in psychology.","PeriodicalId":48420,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Psychology","volume":"20 1","pages":"265 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47055044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}