Reflexivity: A Practical Guide for Researchers in Health and Social Sciences

Reflexivity is a popular tool used to analyse personal, intersubjective and social processes which shape research projects. It enables researchers, particularly within the qualitative tradition, to acknowledge their role and the situated nature of their research. In the current climate, which sees the popularity of qualitative methods coupled with increased public and professional scrutiny of research, reflexivity provides a means of bolstering greater transparency and quality in research.This book recognises the considerable value of reflexivity to researchers, and provides a means to navigate this field. The book is foremost a practical guide which examines reflexivity at different stages of the research process. The editors and contributors offer candid approaches to the subject, which supply readers with diverse strategies on how to do reflexivity in practice.Features * Provides an accessible, practical guide to reflexive research processes, methods and outcomes* Encompasses both the health and social science fields * Includes contributions from international researchersThe book is aimed at postgraduate and final year students of health and social sciences. Interested clinicians will also find useful insights in the text.Content: Chapter 1 The Reflexive Journey: Mapping Multiple Routes (pages 3–20): Linda FinlayChapter 2 Deconstructing Reflexivity (pages 21–35): Brendan GoughChapter 3 Necessary Subjectivity: Exploiting Researchers' Motives, Passions and Prejudices in Pursuit of Answering ‘true’ Questions (pages 49–51): Ilja MasoChapter 4 Three Journeys Towards Reflexivity (pages 52–65): Elizabeth McKay, Susan Ryan and Thelma SumsionChapter 5 Navigating Multiple Research Identities Reflexivity in Discourse Analytic Research (pages 66–77): Claire BallingerChapter 6 Developing a Critically Reflexive Position Using Discourse Analysis (pages 78–92): David HarperChapter 7 Reflexivity as Presence: A Journey of Self?Inquiry (pages 93–102): Gweneth DoaneChapter 8 Through the Looking Glass: Intersubjectivity and Hermeneutic Reflection (pages 106–119): Linda FinlayChapter 9 Analysing the Interviewer: The Joint Construction of Accounts of Psychotic Experience (pages 121–132): Eugenie GeorgacaChapter 10 Reflexivity, ‘Bias’ and the in?Depth Interview: Developing Shared Meanings (pages 133–145): Paula NicolsonChapter 11 Shifting Researcher Positions During a Group Interview Study: A Reflexive Analysis and Re?View (pages 146–160): Brendan GoughChapter 12 Doing Reflexivity: A Collaborative Narrative Approach (pages 163–175): Maria J. AwayChapter 13 Shifting Identities: The Negotiation of Meanings Between Texts and Between Persons (pages 176–186): Jonathan A. SmithChapter 14 Researcher as Storyteller and Performer: Parallels with Playback Theatre (pages 187–199): Nick RoweChapter 15 Using Reflexivity to Loosen Theoretical and Organisational Knots within Participatory Action Research (pages 200–213): Majella McVadden and Alison McCamleyChapter 16 Holding up the Mirror to Widen the View: Multiple Subjectivities in the Reflexive Team (pages 214–228): Christine A. BarryChapter 17 The Next Turn: Reflexively Analysing Reflexive Research (pages 229–250): Katie MacMillan