Qualitative Researcher Vulnerability: Negotiating, Experiencing and Embracing

Qualitative Researcher Vulnerability provides conceptual, experiential, and practical insights into the vulnerability of the qualitative researcher, exploring ethics, risk, empathy, emotion, and power. It is suitable for undergraduate, postgraduate students, and emerging and established researchers, especially those examining sensitive topics or developing more responsive, responsible, ethical, or reciprocal approaches to qualitative practices.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 246 pages
Publication date: 23 June 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Qualitative Researcher Vulnerability offers comprehensive conceptual, experiential, and practical insights into the vulnerability of qualitative researchers. While participants' vulnerability has received greater attention in qualitative research, researcher vulnerability remains an essential consideration. This book, brought together by an interdisciplinary group of authors from various fields, including criminology, education, feminism, geography, health, kinesiology, nursing, management and organization, policy, political science, psychology, sociology, and qualitative inquiry, explores various aspects of researcher vulnerability.

The authors delve into how we can understand and work with researcher vulnerability, particularly in relation to ethics, risk, empathy, emotion, and power. They argue that researcher vulnerability is a vital component of research practices throughout the research process, benefiting both emerging and experienced researchers. While it is important to protect against researcher vulnerability, the authors encourage researchers to be aware of, explore, learn from, work with, and, at times, embrace it.

This book is designed for undergraduate, postgraduate students, and emerging and established researchers who employ qualitative research methodologies. It is particularly valuable for researchers examining potentially sensitive topics or those seeking to develop more responsive, responsible, ethical, or reciprocal approaches to qualitative practices.

Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Chapter 11 of this book is also freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attri.

Weight: 480g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032393339