Qualitative Research

Article	Citations
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things	66
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama	44
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective	39
Amplifying marginalized voices: The necessity of anonymity for diversity and inclusivity in qualitative research	39
Situated empathy: The politics and ethics of feeling with the other	35
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities	30
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology	29
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies	27
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method	26
Saturation – a one-size-fits-all fallacy: A critique rooted in phenomenological and qualitative content analysis perspectives	25
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada	19
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies	19
Transcript frame analysis: Thinking with Goffman about interview data	18
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it	16
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power	15
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts	15
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups	14
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges	13
Book Review: Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers by Ugo Corte CorteUgo, Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers. Chicago: Uni	13
Drawing insight: sequential art narrative as reflexive analysis in hermeneutic phenomenology	12
Richness, rapport, and rigor in digital interviews: Rethinking methodological presence through the “pocket-size ethnographer” positionality	12
Opening reflexive spaces: Maps as an anticipatory tool in expert interviews	12
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage	12
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field	12
Recalibrating epistemic alignment: A researcher's journey toward methodological coherence	12

Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended ethnography	11
Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens	11
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?	11
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space	10
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants	10
Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world	10
Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty	10
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners	10
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data	9
Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis	9
Fieldwork in flux: Injury, disruption and the case for flexibility in research design	9
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys	8
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia	7
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis	7
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews	7
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship	7
Building and sustaining equitable and inclusive transdisciplinary research teams: A case for in-person collaboration	7
Birds of a feather (don’t always) flock together: Critical reflexivity of ‘Outsiderness’ as an ‘Insider’ doing qualitative research with one’s ‘Own People’	7
Insider/outsider debates: Making whiteness visible in the Irish context	7
Stamped with meaning: post-cards as qualitative inquiry in educational travel	6
‘Say cheese!’ Exploring consent and performance in the ‘shutter moment’ of School Photo Day	6
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation	6
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy	6
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-19	6
“I probably would've passed the opportunity otherwise”: Incorporating text message interviewing in multi-modal data collection methods	6
Ending participatory research projects: Entangled temporalities, endy moments and afterlives	6
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: Towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents	6
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction	5
Screens and clouds: Methodological changes and ethical dilemmas when researching digital literacy socialisation of a toddler	5
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void	5
‘It is always putting things into words, but now it was about feeling, truly feeling’: Affect Houses as a novel method to attend to of affect	5
Interviewing respondents with a similar social status: Power, positionality, poetics	5
Visual methods in disaster recovery research: Cultural and ethical challenges in implementation	5
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis	5
The Researcher-As-Obstacle: A methodology for the study of creativity while it happens	4
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space	4
Decolonizing methodology: Co-designing research with the voices and footprints of the community	4
Book Review: Epistemic Flows: Migrant Scholars Engage Migration Scholarship by Gemignani M, Hernández-Albújar Y, & Sládková J GemignaniMHernández-Alb	4
Researcher street race-gender in qualitative field work	4
Vulnerability is not a checklist: Grounded Normative Theory in global deliberation	4
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries	4
The dilemma of researching home; controversies of researching Basarwa and the shifting positionalities	4
Fieldwork in precarious times: Reflecting on ‘dangerous fields’	4
On being a ‘passive observer’: The corporeal and affective dimensions of power in observational research on trafficked women in criminal proceedings	4
Caring in qualitative interviews: A working model for interviews in the transformative paradigm	4
Book Review: Doing Good Social Science: Lessons from Immersion, Understanding Social Life and Exploring the In-between by Christopher R. Matthews Matthew	4
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology	4
Remaking a sense of place: Using video methods to research a London ten-pin bowling league	4
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher	4
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research	4

Between you and me: Researcher-researched positionalities, trauma, and paradoxes in knowledge-production	4
Ethnographic focus groups in communities of practice: Maximal variation and emic perspectives	4
Document analysis: How to make sense of legal and authoritative texts	4
Coping with distressing research: Emotional engagement and researcher well-being	4
Provoked perplexity in live methods	4
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court	4
Who can you trust these days?: Dealing with imposter participants during online recruitment and data collection	3
Towards a natural semiotics for centralising ‘out of this world’ images in research with children	3
The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study	3
How motherhood reshapes ethnography: A mother-ethnographer's fieldwork in Algeria during the Hirak movement	3
‘We are like mice here, in a lab!’ Visibility as a reflexive tool for qualitative research	3
Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: Nuancing power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women	3
Beyond vulnerable populations: vulnerability, fieldwork and knowledge production	3
Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography, security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia	3
Book Review: The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty by Wacquant L. WacquantL. (2025). The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty. New York: Oxford Univ	3
“Say more?” Refusal, resonance, and the feminist ear in academic review	3
Prime incentives, ethical dilemmas: The case of Amazon gift cards and lessons for integrity in social research	3
Using qualitative research co-design for intergenerational perspectives of online play	3
Emerging ethical challenges in researching vulnerable groups during the COVID-19	3
Ethical challenges confronted in non-clinical, public health research with young people in England	3
Retraction Notice: “I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota	3
‘Episodic participant observation’: Critiquing the ideal and offering an inclusive version of participant observation as a supplementary method in qualitative studies	3
Transcribing encounters with the ‘wild’: The neglected case of the poetics of ordinary talk	3
Participant observation in the 21st century: How the digital dimension matters for all ethnographers	2
Multi-sited research disrupted: chokepoints and the Panama Canal	2
Mapping working practices as systems: An analytical model for visualising findings from an institutional ethnography	2
Understanding the contested, complex or confusing: effective strategies for collaborative thematic analysis using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software	2
Plática as methodology and method: Using a critical lens to research AfroLatine and Queer Latine college experiences	2
Translating (in) the margins: The dilemmas, ethics, and politics of a transnational feminist approach to translating in multilingual qualitative research	2
Investigative policy analysis: Leveraging ethnography's postures to research secretive state policies in access-restricted authoritarian contexts	2
Troubling go-alongs through the lens of care	2
Exploring art-oriented interview: An arts-based methodological tool to elicit narratives	2
‘It looks like an abandoned site!’: Emotions and imagination in a focused organisational ethnography of French–Italian construction sites	2
Eating, inventing, and caring together: Ephemeral commensality in an experimental restaurant	2
Remote interviewing, accessibility, and scams: Notes on a case of fraudulent responses to a recruitment flyer	2
Dilemmas in embodied methods: Towards holistic description in qualitative research	2
Visual reasoning: the role of abduction within qualitative research on interprofessional working	2
Remote collaborative fieldwork in the global South: Equity implications for researchers and participants	2
Using interview excerpts to facilitate focus group discussion	2
Using creative methods in understanding lesbian/queer women sex worker identities in South Australia	2
North-South research collaboration during complex global emergencies: Qualitative knowledge production and sharing during COVID-19	2
Fieldwork, participation, and unique-adequacy-in-action	2
Vibes-based methods	2
Portraits of Territory : A methodological tool to create dialogue and alternatives around territorial conflicts	2
Trust, nuance, and care: Advantages and challenges of repeat qualitative interviews	2
‘Softening hedges’ as analytic lens and methodological tool in research on advance care planning with Vietnamese migrants	2
Dialogic inquiry interviews: presenting a novel method for exploring young people's conceptualisations of well-being	2
Elicitation using kit bag methods: Exploring embodied practice with female boxers	2
Book Review: How to Craft Autoethnography: A Practical-ish Guide by Weaver-Hightower M. B. Weaver-HightowerM. B. (2026). How to Craft Autoethnography: A	2
At home in the field, in the field at home? Reflections on power and fieldwork in familiar settings	2
Young migrants on the move: Ethics and methods of conducting qualitative research ‘in the moment’	2
Qualitative research with LLM chatbots: Technological reflexivity for interpretative technology	2
Learning together: Insights on knowledge production from a study on sexual and gender-related violence	2
The rise of virtual yarning: An Indigenist research method	2
Remote qualitative research after the COVID-19 pandemic: Ethical reflections from a prepandemic study with families of the enforced disappeared in Perú	1
More-than-human research: Being with as onto-epistemological method	1
Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK	1
Turning the tables or business as usual? COVID-19 as a catalyst in North–South research collaborations	1
Writing against the chain transmission of fear: Reflections on institutionalised ethics	1
Re-thinking vulnerability: Research fraud and bureaucratic harm in community-engaged online research	1
Quest for Equity : Using multiple methodologies to promote collaboration and engagement in anti-racism education	1
Post-research reflexivity in qualitative research: Through cloaks and cross-threading	1
Reconsidering the shape of power: Challenges of interviewing elites in a later-learned language	1
Chasing scorpions across North Africa: Ethical reflections on life story research with Sub-Saharan migrants	1
AI-replicas as ethical practice: introducing an alternative to traditional anonymisation techniques in image-based research	1
Evaluating collaborative action ethnography as a means of co-constructing ‘pedagogies of vulnerability’ in the post-pandemic music classroom	1
Pain(ful) research: Hyperembodiment and the value of lived experience of pain in qualitative research	1
The elephant in the room: Arguments against horizontalized line-by-line coding in qualitative research	1
Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work	1
Desire-led futures of anti-colonial methodologies	1
Vulnerability in procedural ethics: A study of 44 national research ethics guidelines	1
Practicing care-full scholarship: Exploring the use of ‘visual informed consent’ in a study of motherhood, health and agroecology in Coventry, UK	1
Achieving co-presence when together and apart: Hybrid engagements and multi-modal collaborative research with urban indigenous youth	1
Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical dilemmas	1
‘Can’t Help Myself’: on generative AI, the performance of qualitative research and slow scholarship	1
How can we do ethnographic research in a controversy? Lessons and reflections from a multi-sided ethnography of badger culling and bovine Tuberculosis	1
Preparatory participation as method: Reconceptualising pre-fieldwork through embodied and relational practice	1
Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies from three activist-scholars	1
From emotional interruptions to wilful disruptions: Zine-making as a post-qualitative method for locating, articulating, navigating, and doing emotion in research	1
The Slalom Method: How to zig-zag between digital methods and traditional methods in ethnography	1

‘We need the vibes’: Co-designing safe spaces to talk about loneliness with young people	1
The politics of gatekeeping: respondents as gatekeepers and gatekeepers as respondents	1
The challenges of ‘researching with responsibility’: Developing intersectional reflexivity for understanding surfing, place and community in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Foregrounding the background: A methodological reflection on the roles and effects of participant-generated photos	1
Thinking with edges – and at the edges: some retrospective reflections on fieldwork and missed connections	1
On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing	1
Exploring client-therapist relationships through joint interviews	1
Making a difference with matter in researchers’ positionality dynamics in qualitative inquiry	1
Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth	1
An intersectional reflexive account on positionality: researching Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim lone motherhood	1
Exploration and specificity: a critical analysis of uses of comics as a method across qualitative research processes	1
Book Review: Post-conflict Participatory Arts: Socially Engaged Development	1
In praise of awkwardness in the field: Increasing our understanding of relational concepts by reflecting on researchers’ emotion work	1
‘Being affected’: The epistemic value of vulnerability in fieldwork	1
Reimagining environmental education research through narrative inquiry as a relational ethical practice of care and reciprocity with teachers	1
Disrupting norms of time and talk: Email interviews as a neurodivergent-affirming method for ethical and rich qualitative research	1
Researching everyday geographies of caregiving youth: Versatile Everyday Emotion Mapping (VEEMethod)	1
Creating with ‘voice without subject’: An aesthetic reconceptualization of voice	1
Addressing the binaries of regional/urban and boundaries of research methodologies in and through ‘slow’ research with women from non-urban communities	1
Giving up the ‘Good Research Child’	1
Video diaries as a technique to approach social practices	1
Challenging methodologies: Deploying liberatory epistemologies to unlock creative research practices	1
Affecting photos: Photographs as shared, affective ethnographic spaces	1
The right distance. Emotional labour and researcher positioning in qualitative research	1
Institutional storylines of gatekeeping: Negotiating research access to hard-to-reach groups involved in child protection	1
Future memory work: unsettling temporal Othering through speculative research practices	1
A day without Global North researchers: Making space for equitable collaboration after COVID-19	1
Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video	1