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I'm proud to be chairing 'How Creative Research Methods Challenge Power Dynamics in Knowledge Production', for Policy Press. 📅 24.03.2025 | 📍 Zoom For further information and to register now, click here: bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #CRMethods

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I really like this conceptualization of reflexivity by Braun & Clarke (2022): "good reflexivity isn't a surface reflection, it isn't a comforting feeling or something designed to make you feel like a better person; it can and should be discomforting, unsettling, and change-bringing."

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Thinking about research ethics mainly from the vantage point of researchers' interests is problematic. For example, thinking about our research practices only because we're planning to conduct research on the same communities in the future & we don't want to ruin our relationship with them.

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Impact in Qualitative Research blog: www.quahrc.co.uk/podcasts-blo... There is often limited opportunity to demonstrate impact in #qualitative research, and so we are hoping to provide a place to do this. If you are based at King’s and have an idea for a blog post, get in touch at [email protected]

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

To have a complete understanding of research ethics, we need to hear more from research participants and researched communities.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It is not possible to do ethical research without knowing the ethics of the researched community.

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📢 New publication "Reflexivity for Qualitative Research Quality and the Quality of Reflexivity" with Alexander Stoffel for The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality (ed. Uwe Flick) 1/6 https://buff.ly/3PlKaz3 @lsemethodology.bsky.social #reflexivity #qualitativeresearch #researchquality

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

I really like this conceptualization of reflexivity by Braun & Clarke (2022): "good reflexivity isn't a surface reflection, it isn't a comforting feeling or something designed to make you feel like a better person; it can and should be discomforting, unsettling, and change-bringing."

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

The first episode in our SEVENTH series of the #Qualitative Open Mic podcast is here! #Neurodiversity Matters: Damian Milton on double empathy and #autistic worlds www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne... #QualitativeResearch #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent #Autism

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

The video of last week's methods panel is up! Come check out Freddie Jones, Léon Van Ommen and I talked about using qualitative methods with nonspeaking people. Link to the full panel video (and to the slides for my section) available here: www.heasutherland.com/talk/ethnogr...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Our qualitative study got desk reject for “sample size” & “validity”. Appealed & reply said we should add 1)coder reliability & 2)numerical data in a table to justify “theme saturation” for paper to go to review. I’ve published qual work for 9 years & don’t know how to deal w/ this quant bias. Help!

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

iaani.org/2025isan/ The 2025 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN) 28th Feb-2nd March, online. #AcademicSky #QualitativeResearch

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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

submitted 23 days ago • 142 comments

Why are we allowing universities to basically become captive markets for Big Tech, for OpenAI and Microsoft to create generations of students unable to think, read or write without LLMs? We are shooting ourselves in the foot, repeatedly, and being told its a "revolution"

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

📣 Do you write in a way that enables your readers to become reflexive about the things you are talking about? My new article "Writing as Social Practice: From Researchers’ to Readers’ Reflexivity" aims to develop a research program to address this question ⬇️ In #OA 1/ brill.com/view/journal...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

An extraordinary week spent discussing Openness, Transparency and Rigour at #QRS2025! Thank you to everyone for creating an incredibly inspiring, and friendly conference! Check out our great summary vid including our keynotes @maddipow.bsky.social and Sarah Neal 💪 What did you learn from QRS 2025?

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

"Conventionally, researchers use one or perhaps two methods and impose them on participants. Research can be done well this way. However, our work has shown that giving participants choices [of creative methods] can benefit early years research at all stages."

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Throw away your half-eaten fruit and mobile phones in the bin on the left, 😁.

submitted 37 days ago • 14 comments

New journal article! 'From the Mosaic approach to cultural probes: Why research improves when participants can choose.' Co-authored with Judith Brown. Enjoy!

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

I went through my Twitter bookmarks today and wanted to share these informative and thoughtful provoking pieces on positioning, positionality, and positionality statements written in recent years (in case you haven't seen them already 😊):

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

I am excited to share my latest research paper published in Social Media + Society, titled 'Internet Memes as Stabilizers of Conspiracy Culture: A Cognitive Anthropological Analysis' and co-authored with @britdavidson.bsky.social, Tim Hill, and Adam Joinson. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

Writing + preaching are “completely unattached. When you are standing in the pulpit, you must sound as though you know what you’re talking about. When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know,… what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.”

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

I went through my Twitter bookmarks today and wanted to share these informative and thoughtful provoking pieces on positioning, positionality, and positionality statements written in recent years (in case you haven't seen them already 😊):

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

🎧You can now listen to my lecture "Wounds Inside: The Anticipated Mental Health Consequences of the Genocide in Gaza" as part of the @KingsAKC podcast series! Link: open.spotify.com/episode/4Bvy...

submitted 51 days ago • 7 comments

How can researchers balance creativity with rigor in data analysis? 🎨📊 Jess Miles chats with me, Dawn Mannay, & @alistairroy.bsky.social, editors of The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis, about innovation, ethics, & anxieties around creative methods. www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/01/14/p...

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting special collection on "innovative qualitative research methods conducted across sub-Saharan Africa and other emerging economies contexts." All the articles included in this volume are open access.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Do you have an ethical quandary in your #ParticipatoryResearch? Are you struggling to fit participatory work into university ethics processes? Join this free surgery Feb 13th - sign-up link available here: www.quahrc.co.uk/training-sem... #ResearchMethods #ResearchEthics #AcademicSky

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💥New: Documenting the community response after the Grenfell Tower fire, @floracornish.bsky.social & Cathy Long suggest how the collaborative creation of archives can support local sense-making post-disaster & preparation for future crises. #CoProduction #Grenfell blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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Ethiopian artist Makeda Bizuneh, The Roofs in the Moonlight (c.2013) #womensart

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

So true. So much for "co-production"

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

If researchers ask communities “what do you want us to research?”, they should expect that communities may say we do not want research. We want other interventions. In my experience, that is often the case.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

I love one of the reasons Braun & Clarke provided (written as a footnote) as to why they use the term "phase" rather than "step" in their six phase approach to doing reflexive thematic analysis: "Steps and stairs are also one of the ways our physical environments are made inaccessible for many"

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #womensart

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Africans are least represented in global health organizations, boards, conferences, and publications Read this importance piece to know how visa inequities play a role www.nature.com/articles/d44...

submitted 63 days ago • 5 comments