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Doing Research for and With Others : A Researcher's Relationship With Research Content (2022)

Ndomo, Q. (2022). Doing Research for and With Others : A Researcher's Relationship With Research Content. In A. G. Gibson (Ed.), The Affective Researcher (pp. 63-94). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-333-820221003

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Ndomo, Quivine

Parent publication: The Affective Researcher

Parent publication editors: Gibson, Andrew G.

ISBN: 978-1-80262-336-9

eISBN: 978-1-80262-333-8

Publication year: 2022

Publication date: 27/07/2022

Pages range: 63-94

Number of pages in the book: 166

Publisher: Emerald

Place of Publication: Bingley

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-333-820221003

Persistent website address: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-80262-333-820221003/

Publication open access: Not open

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Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/85697

Abstract

The chapter discusses the question of social justice in social science research by problematizing the researcher-research content relationship and its guiding principle framework Science-Society-Me. With a focus on early career researchers, the author draws on her own PhD research experience to highlight the social justice tension inherent in the normative approaches and methods for selecting research topic, collecting data and relating with research participants, and analyzing and interpreting data especially in empirical research with fellow human beings. Drawing on the theory of affect, the chapter centralizes the position, biography and experience of the researcher, and the relationship between the researcher and the research participants to balance out the privileged (power) position of ‘science’ and ‘society’ in the current framework. To this end, I make two ontological and methodological adjustment recommendations: (1) Relocating the space of research from a fixed and exclusive ‘location’ of science theories, methods, concepts etc., to the space of daily life experience and interaction, requiring a compassionate approach to research, and thus the second recommendation; (2) Developing long-term, inclusive and equal relationships with research participants augmented by constant reflexivity – as including the biographies and experiences of the researcher and the research participant – as well as political reflexivity.

Keywords: social sciences; research subjects; methodology; social justice; power structures; inclusion; social inclusion; reflection (cognitive processes)

Free keywords: Science-society-me; social justice; reflexivity; compassionate research; inclusive research; power

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Ministry reporting: Yes

VIRTA submission year: 2022

JUFO rating: 1