Lectures and presentations
Walking alongside or visitors in life? Participant–researcher relations in qualitative longitudinal research
All experts: Niina Rutanen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Mari Vuorisalo, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Kaisa Vehkalahti, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Helena Ristaniemi, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Elisa Tiilikainen, Univeristy of Easten Finland
Activity details
Nature of event: Scientific conference
Name of event: 7th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
Presentation type: Other public presentation
Start date: 10/01/2024
End date: 12/01/2024
Year: 2024
Description
Our Dream Team will invite the participants to collaborative reflection on the
strengths and challenges in qualitative longitudinal research. Qualitative
longitudinal research is often described as walking side-by-side the participants,
whose life paths may challenge many of the expectations and plans written down in
the proposals. The aim of this Dream Team is to update this image by gathering
experiences from a variety of approaches, where the relation to participants might
be more diverse, fluid, changing, and even disturbing sometimes, raising multiple
ethical questions and tensions.
Our aim is to learn from each other and offer a floor to joint exploration focusing on
the changing relations between the participants and the researcher(s). How to work
with the relation analytically as intrinsically tied to knowledge production during the
process? How to work with the fact that the participants see the relationship from a
very different, sometimes unpredictable lenses than the researcher? What are the
ethical commitments made, unwritten, yet powerful at the time of ruptures and
doubts?
The coordinators represent diverse disciplines and present short introductory notes
and provocation/questions from their projects and experiences as invitation and
opening space to the joint reflections. The examples presented will come from
different projects, where the participants age range from early years (1-8-year-olds)
to old age.
strengths and challenges in qualitative longitudinal research. Qualitative
longitudinal research is often described as walking side-by-side the participants,
whose life paths may challenge many of the expectations and plans written down in
the proposals. The aim of this Dream Team is to update this image by gathering
experiences from a variety of approaches, where the relation to participants might
be more diverse, fluid, changing, and even disturbing sometimes, raising multiple
ethical questions and tensions.
Our aim is to learn from each other and offer a floor to joint exploration focusing on
the changing relations between the participants and the researcher(s). How to work
with the relation analytically as intrinsically tied to knowledge production during the
process? How to work with the fact that the participants see the relationship from a
very different, sometimes unpredictable lenses than the researcher? What are the
ethical commitments made, unwritten, yet powerful at the time of ruptures and
doubts?
The coordinators represent diverse disciplines and present short introductory notes
and provocation/questions from their projects and experiences as invitation and
opening space to the joint reflections. The examples presented will come from
different projects, where the participants age range from early years (1-8-year-olds)
to old age.