563 research outputs found
Digging deep! The archaeological metaphor helping researchers get into Big Qual
No full textWorking across qualitative data sets is a relatively new but nevertheless exciting proposition, but can it be done well and with integrity? In this episode of the Methods Podcast, we talk to Dr Susie Weller from the University of Southampton who, with colleagues (Prof Rosalind Edwards, Prof Lynn Jamieson and Dr Emma Davidson) and as part of an NCRM funded research project, has developed an archeological metaphor to do just that.<br/
Collaborating with original research teams: Some reflections on good secondary analytic practice
No full textIn this blog, Dr Susie Weller, Senior Research Fellow at the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods and the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton reflects on her experiences of thinking about good practice in qualitative secondary analysis. Susie draws on a recent ESRC National Centre for Research Methods study – Working across qualitative longitudinal studies: A feasibility study looking at care and intimacy – conducted with Prof Rosalind Edwards, Prof Lynn Jamieson and Dr Emma Davidson. She considers some of the possibilities and challenges of developing collaborative relationships between secondary analysts and members of the original teams who created the data sets. In so doing, she shows how attachments to data and notions of ownership – for both original researchers and re-users of the data – shift over time
I-Poems as a method of qualitative interview data analysis: young people’s sense of self: Dataset
No full textI-poems are one of a range of possible ways of analysing in-depth qualitative interview data. The particular focus is on identifying how interviewees talk about themselves (their first person ‘voices’) and interpreting their sense/s of self or subjectivities. This exemplar of the I-poem form of analysis demonstrates the steps involved, and reflects on the implications of a process that aims to trace how participants represent themselves in interviews. The material used is provided by Professor Rosalind Edwards and Dr Susie Weller from the University of Southampton, and is taken from their qualitative longitudinal research study: Your Space, which focuses on the dynamics of young people’s sibling and friendship relationships over time. The exemplar data consists of an audio recording and transcript of an interview with ‘Jasmin’ (a pseudonym), one of the young people participating in the research study, undertaken specifically for data analysis demonstration purposes, and an I-poem produced from analysis of the transcript annotated to identify the ‘voices’ in which she speaks. This exemplar will show you how to construct an I-poem and use it to identify and trace continuities and changes in research participants’ sense/s of self within an interview
Weller Calf survival JDS supplement table
No full textSupplement Table for "Genetic and environmental analysis female calf survival in the Israel Holstein cattle population" J. I. Weller et al., author
Situating (Young) teenagers in geographies of children and youth
No full textThe past decade has been an exciting and productive period in the study of children's and young people's geographies. The principal aim of this paper is to contribute to this field of research by presenting the arguments for a more substantive focus on teenagers' geographies. Firstly, the terms ‘children’ and ‘young people’ are constructed as synonymous and used interchangeably and the complex transitional positioning of young teenagers—situated between childhood, youth and adulthood—has been relatively neglected. Secondly, many researchers have been engaged in developing methods, which aim to challenge unequal power relations between adult researchers and young participants but little focus has been placed on utilizing participants' own constructions of themselves. The final argument for a more coherent focus on teenagers' geographies rests on the contribution that geographers can make to challenging negative stereotypes of teenagers within policy and the media. The paper concludes by outlining what form an emphasis on teenagers' geographies may take
Fostering habits of care: Reframing qualitative data sharing policies and practices
No full textThis article argues that navigating the formalized, regulated and institutionalized data sharing landscape is challenging for researchers tasked with making qualitative data available for re-use. Archiving empirical material has progressively become a requirement enshrined in the policies of UK research institutions. Yet, how qualitative researchers feature – as data (co)creators and curators – within a process governed largely by quantitative data management strategies remains undocumented. Using examples from the ESRC Timescapes initiative, this article argues that to advance ethical practice in qualitative secondary analysis (QSA), data sharing policies and practices need to be re-framed to respect, value and care for the particularities of qualitative data and the emotional, intellectual and temporal investments made by qualitative researchers working in an increasingly pressurized Higher Education (HE) environment. Accordingly, ideas from the ethics of care literature are employed to propose areas where ‘habits of care’, attuned to the needs of qualitative researchers and data, can be fostered.</p
Understanding Care and Thinking with Care
No full textWhat does ‘care’ mean in contemporary society? How are caring relationships practised in different contexts? What resources do individuals and collectives draw upon in order to care for, care with and care about themselves and others? How do such relationships and practices relate to broader social processes? Care shapes people’s everyday lives and relationships and caring relations and practices influence the economies of different societies. This interdisciplinary book takes a nuanced and context-sensitive approach to exploring caring relationships, identities and practices within and across a variety of cultural, familial, geographical and institutional arenas. Grounded in rich empirical research and discussing key theoretical, policy and practice debates, it provides important, yet often neglected, international and cross-cultural perspectives. it is divided into four sections covering: Caring within educational institutions; caring amongst communities and networks; caring and families; and caring across the life-course. Contributing to broader theoretical, philosophical and moral debates associated with the ethics of care, citizenship, justice, relationality and entanglements of power, Critical Approaches to Care is an important work for students and academics studying caring and care work in the fields of health and social care, sociology, social policy, anthropology, education, human geography and politics. © 2013 Chrissie Rogers and Susie Weller
Skateboarding alone? Making social capital discourse relevant to teenagers’ lives
No full textBound to the notion of teenage apathy is the concern that young people are increasingly disengaged from political and community issues and lacking in social capital. Voting is often regarded as the ultimate form of civic engagement, which implicitly excludes young teenagers from consideration through their status as non-voters. Teenagers’ alternative forms of participation are rarely valued as legitimate acts of civic engagement. As a result, many of the dominant writers on social capital neglect teenagers’ abilities to generate and utilize social capital. Drawing on a three-year research project undertaken with over 600 teenagers aged 13–16, this paper uses three illustrative examples to highlight the ways in which teenagers deploy their social capital in order to transform people and places in two key ways. Firstly, teenagers’ alternative forms of civic engagement are highlighted, demonstrating the ways in which many (re)shape their environments by, for example, campaigning for skate park facilities. Secondly, teenagers’ alternative understandings of community, many of which are associated with lifestyle choices, are explored. In doing so, the paper brings to the fore the significance of teenagers’ social capital
Evolving creativity in qualitative longitudinal research with children and teenagers
No full textThe past two decades have been an exciting and productive time for research with children and teenagers, with many studies at the forefront of developing research practices infused with creativity and innovation. Such approaches are often participatory, using methods that draw upon and incorporate children and teenagers’ diverse skills and interests to foster active participation in the research process. Similarly, innovation and adaptation feature as trademarks of much qualitative longitudinal research that is, by its very nature, dynamic and evolving. Utilising personal reflection and participant feedback, this paper draws on an ongoing qualitative longitudinal study with over 50 children and teenagers to contemplate the potentials and pitfalls involved in the long-term use of creative methods and approaches. In doing so, it focuses on three elements of the research process, namely participant involvement, data collection and analysis and dissemination, to explore the evolving nature of creativity in qualitative longitudinal research
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