International Journal of Qualitative Methods: ARCHIVE
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Reflexivity on an Empirical Study regarding Cancer Care
No full textFindings from an empirical, qualitative study conducted by the first author regarding cancer patients\u27 perceptions of good nursing care have previously been published. In this article, the entire research process of the study is analyzed and discussed in light of the social theories of Erving Goffman (1959, 1986), arriving at some complementary interpretations of the findings. Reflections are made specifically based on his theories concerning the interactional frames and the presentation of self in everyday life. The interviewer and the informants entered the interview situation from very different standpoints, with different expectations and objectives, social roles, theoretical backgrounds, and positions within the power structure of the clinical setting. Those differences naturally influence the interaction in the interview situation, not the least of which includes the self-presentation of the patients. The complementary insight dealt with in this article provides an important background for improving nursing care in practice as well as when planning further research
Evidence-informed primary bereavement care: A study protocol of a knowledge-to-action approach for systems
No full textUsing a systems change approach to knowledge-to-action, the purpose of this study is to increase organizational and practitioner uptake of an evidence-informed primary bereavement care guideline in home and community care through a researcher-knowledge-user partnership. Guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research a single case study design will be used to examine system change in its natural context. The project integrates an organizational change initiative and a research study. Multiple data collection and analysis strategies will be used to explore and map the interactive synergistic process of interconnected decisions and actions. Iterative cycles of analysis and feedback will incite knowledge-user reflection and action; shape and substantiate findings; use of the data in a timely fashion to inform and guide next steps, and ensure ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the process
First Nations, Inuit, and Métis women’s experiences of cancer survivorship: Protocol for the National Picture Project
No full textLittle is known about First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) women\u27s experiences with cancer, including how they relate to cultural and social factors such as geography, history, racism, identity, traditional values/practices and spirituality. Research into FNIM women\u27s strengths and challenges in relation to cancer is much needed. Our team, in partnership with Saint Elizabeth Health, is documenting the experiences and needs of 60 FNIM cancer survivors across Canada, using sharing sessions, photography (photovoice), journaling and film. We will evaluate the impact of photography and journaling on the participants to assist with the future development of supportive programs and health care delivery. This innovative research will result in a video, which will address gaps in knowledge and care. The video will then be screened in several communities and will be publicly available. In future projects, the findings and video will be used in supportive programs for cancer survivors and in educational initiatives for health professionals
Varieties of ‘Sociological Enlightenment’: Critical Arts-Based Inquiry Versus German Reconstructive Social Research
No full textThis article is a methodological reflection on recent developments in qualitative research. It discusses the methodology of critical arts-based qualitative inquiry (CAI).Since the 1980s and in postmodern, poststructural or postpositivist approaches CAI is seen as a renewal of qualitative research. Though, apart from special discourses in Cultural Studies, CAI seems to be ignored by German sociology. I will focus on the theoretical-methodological fundamentals of these approaches with respect to a politics of interpretation, and discuss these basics from the perspective of German qualitative-reconstructive research traditions. Although CAI can be a source of productive irritations, the differences suggest contrasting concepts of a “sociological enlightenment.
Dialogic Memory-Work as a Method to Explore the “Afterlife” of our Self-Study Doctoral Research
No full textWe are teacher educators and researchers in South Africa. In our doctoral studies we used self-study methodologies to improve our professional practice in relation to the challenges of teaching and learning in the South African HIV and AIDS context. This article demonstrates how we, as teacher educator-researchers, explored the “afterlife” of our doctoral research. We used self-selected exemplars from our own doctoral theses as research artefacts to investigate the relationship between our doctoral research and our professional development and practice. We combined memory-work and reflexive dialogue, using questions posed by a fictitious critical friend to examine our exemplars that consisted of short pieces of writing from our doctoral theses. We concluded that our dialogic memory-work method allowed for collaborative exploration of the afterlife of our doctoral research and this, in turn, facilitated our professional practice growth as teacher educator-researchers in the South African context of HIV and AIDS
Transformational Grounded Theory: Theory, Voice and Action
No full textGrounded theory has been evolving methodologically since Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss first described it in the late 1960s. Initially underpinned by modernist philosophy, grounded theory has had recent turns including the adoption of both constructivism and postmodernism. This article explores ontological offerings of critical realism as a basis for transformational grounded theory informed by participatory action research and decolonizing research methodologies. The potential for both theory and action to result from this critical grounded theory methodology, which promotes greater participation and equity of power for positive change, is the transformational in transformational grounded theory
An Application of Soft Systems Methodology in the Sugar Industry
No full textThis research describes and analyses a methodological approach, known as Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). SSM was applied in the sugar industry, which is characterized by diverse stakeholders who have multiple and often competing objectives. SSM is a methodology that was developed in response to the limitations of the systems engineering approach. It uses a flexible, yet organized process to bring about action to improve problematical situations. A qualitative research approach was used. Interviews and SSM workshops were held with growers and the miller, and other stakeholders. Interviews were conducted with the focus on identifying the goals of the various stakeholders in the mill area, and how communication, trust, and overall efficiency were perceived by the stakeholder groups, on their own and as a whole. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Purposeful activity models were created after an analysis of the interview transcripts, and rich pictures were constructed by stakeholders in a SSM workshop. Stakeholders were invited to a second SSM workshop where they were presented with SSM tools that were constructed. Participants then chose to work on a model and engaged in debate about how the model compared to the real world, and considered how to take action to bring about improvement. The research illustrated the value of applying SSM in the sugar industry by bringing together diverse stakeholders to identify and address the multiple perspectives held about the overlapping problems. Through the SSM process, various problematic aspects of the sugar industry were uncovered and presented to stakeholders to bring about action. SSM facilitated the identification of the various objectives that the stakeholder groups were individually pursuing, and also created space for discussions into how to jointly create a desired future that could benefit all stakeholders. This collaborative methodology enabled meaningful and systemic interaction between the researcher and participants, by providing an opportunity for respondents to share their multiple and valid perspectives about the problems, challenges and opportunities in the mill area. Through the use of the SSM tools, further insight was gained into the roles, goals, values, power, and culture of the study context
Imagination as Method
No full textIn the article the authors argue for the imagination as a central method in ethnography employed to create a more abundant, just, and connected planet. Imagination is the creative energy that links conscious with the generation of the world of material experience. Through imagination the ethnographer becomes immersed in a space of play in which the world can be imagined as something not yet or in emergence, rather than as it is. Our hope is that by employing imagination in this way, ethnography can be focused to generating new possibilities for life on the planet
Qualitative spaces: Integrating spatial analysis for a mixed methods approach
No full textSpatial context matters for qualitative social science inquiry. Yet, the explicit and consistent integration of these analyses has largely been segregated to the spatial sciences, geography and urban planning. In this article, we present a theoretical argument for integrating spatial data in qualitative inquiry and strategies for how to triangulate spatial and qualitative data. We argue that including spatial analyses in inquiries of social phenomena enhances depth and rigor to qualitative work across the social sciences
