Qualitative Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Qualitative Research is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things72
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama41
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections39
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology36
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method35
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies25
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective25
Fusion of horizons: Realizing a meaningful understanding in qualitative research25
Situated empathy: The politics and ethics of feeling with the other24
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities24
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts20
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it18
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada18
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines17
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies16
Transnational online research: recognising multiple contexts in Skype-to-phone interviews16
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Practices, ethics and experiences15
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups15
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society15
My face turned red, but it led me … nowhere. Notes on epistemically pointless embarrassment in ethnographic practice15
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges14
“He/his/she/her/father/mother/son/daughter”: A critical reflection of reproductions of cis-normativity and cis-dominance in preparing qualitative data for analysis13
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power13
Hopes and challenges of creating and using a smartphone application. Working on and working with a digital mobile tool in qualitative sociospatial research13
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field13
“Nothing about us without us”: Tending to emancipatory ideologies and transformative goals in participatory action research partnerships12
Freeplaying with narrative: A Jogando method in/as Capoeira research12
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage12
Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty12
A qualitative fallacy: Life trapped in interpretations and stories12
Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended ethnography11
Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens11
Researching masculinities and food protein practices: A trio of more-than-human participatory workshops11
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?10
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship10
Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world10
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants10
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data10
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space10
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis10
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners10
Birds of a feather (don’t always) flock together: Critical reflexivity of ‘Outsiderness’ as an ‘Insider’ doing qualitative research with one’s ‘Own People’9
Being in the wood: Using a presuppositional interview in hermeneutic phenomenological research9
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys8
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews8
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research8
Book Review: Qualitative Inquiry at a Crossroads: Political, performative and methodological reflections8
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork8
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants8
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia8
‘Say cheese!’ Exploring consent and performance in the ‘shutter moment’ of School Photo Day8
My dear diaries: Following, valuing and reflecting on moments with research materials7
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice7
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships7
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy7
Book Review: Ethnographic Engagements: Encounters with the Familiar and the Strange7
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field7
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation7
COVID times make ‘deep listening’ explicit: changing the space between interviewer and participant7
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void7
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents7
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research6
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction6
Remaking a sense of place: Using video methods to research a London ten-pin bowling league6
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court6
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher6
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space6
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis6
Listen to her: Re-finding culturally responsive poetic inquiry as home knowing for women of African descent6
Thinking with autoethnography in collaborative research: A critical, reflexive approach to relational ethics6
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-196
Provoked perplexity in live methods6
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries6
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology5
On being a ‘passive observer’: The corporeal and affective dimensions of power in observational research on trafficked women in criminal proceedings5
Participatory action research and oral history as natural allies in mental health research5
RETRACTED: “I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan”5
Ethical challenges confronted in non-clinical, public health research with young people in England5
Towards a natural semiotics for centralising ‘out of this world’ images in research with children5
Retraction Notice: “I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan”5
Who can you trust these days?: Dealing with imposter participants during online recruitment and data collection5
Researching tribute bands: tools, counter-interpretations and extending research relations to Facebook in a tight network4
Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: Nuancing power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women4
Emerging ethical challenges in researching vulnerable groups during the COVID-194
Embodied graffiti and street art research4
Drawing in-situ: Matters of care and representation in daily life with dementia4
The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study4
Becoming interested—the evolvement of research interest in case study research on sports4
Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography, security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia4
Can everyone hear me? Reflections on the use of global online workshops for promoting inclusive knowledge generation4
Multi-sited research disrupted: chokepoints and the Panama Canal3
Disability and fieldwork: A personal reflection3
At home in the field, in the field at home? Reflections on power and fieldwork in familiar settings3
Translating (in) the margins: The dilemmas, ethics, and politics of a transnational feminist approach to translating in multilingual qualitative research3
Life history mapping: Exploring journeys into and through housing and homelessness3
Visual reasoning: the role of abduction within qualitative research on interprofessional working3
North-South research collaboration during complex global emergencies: Qualitative knowledge production and sharing during COVID-193
Mapping working practices as systems: An analytical model for visualising findings from an institutional ethnography3
Portraits of Territory : A methodological tool to create dialogue and alternatives around territorial conflicts3
Elicitation using kit bag methods: Exploring embodied practice with female boxers3
Drawing as a method of researching social representations3
Using interview excerpts to facilitate focus group discussion3
Methodological reflections on curating an artistic event with African youth in a Norwegian city3
‘Softening hedges’ as analytic lens and methodological tool in research on advance care planning with Vietnamese migrants3
Remote interviewing, accessibility, and scams: Notes on a case of fraudulent responses to a recruitment flyer3
Trust, nuance, and care: Advantages and challenges of repeat qualitative interviews3
Studying insecurity from relative safety — Dealing with methodological blind spots3
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Navigating the challenges of research in Ghana3
Solidarity as methodological praxis3
Book Review: Art, Ritual and Trance Inquiry: Arational Learning in an Irrational World2
Fieldwork, participation, and unique-adequacy-in-action2
Binary blues: Exploring beyond dichotomized gender comparisons with a theory-driven approach2
Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical dilemmas2
Troubling go-alongs through the lens of care2
Trust and temporality in participatory research2
Unpacking gatekeeping in medical institutions: A case study of access to end-of-life patients2
‘Do I have to say I’m gay?’: Using a video booth for public visibility and impact2
Reframing temporality in participatory visual research with timelapse video2
Children as co-researchers and confessional research tales: Researcher positionality and the (dis)comforts of research2
In praise of awkwardness in the field: Increasing our understanding of relational concepts by reflecting on researchers’ emotion work2
Using guanxi to conduct elite interviews in China2
Vibes-based methods2
The rise of virtual yarning: An Indigenist research method2
Drawing social worlds: a methodological examination of children’s artworks2
Enhancing participatory research with young children through comic-illustrated ethnographic field notes2
Turning the tables or business as usual? COVID-19 as a catalyst in North–South research collaborations2
Online, offline, hybrid: Methodological reflection on event ethnography in (post-)pandemic times1
Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK1
Good listening: A key element in establishing quality in qualitative research1
Practicing care-full scholarship: Exploring the use of ‘visual informed consent’ in a study of motherhood, health and agroecology in Coventry, UK1
Book Review: The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research: Addressing Moments of Discomfort1
‘Can’t Help Myself’: on generative AI, the performance of qualitative research and slow scholarship1
Developing African oral traditional storytelling as a framework for studying with African peoples1
Exploring client-therapist relationships through joint interviews1
Future memory work: unsettling temporal Othering through speculative research practices1
Reading the represented city and society: signs, theory, and the dynamic interpretativeness of Peircean semiotics1
The Slalom Method: How to zig-zag between digital methods and traditional methods in ethnography1
Researching everyday geographies of caregiving youth: Versatile Everyday Emotion Mapping (VEEMethod)1
Learning danger: Cultural difference and the limits of trust in dangerous fieldworks1
The politics of gatekeeping: respondents as gatekeepers and gatekeepers as respondents1
‘So what’s arts got to do with it?’: An autoethnography of navigating researcher positionality while co-creating knowledge1
‘Being affected’: The epistemic value of vulnerability in fieldwork1
Archives of place, feeling, and time: Immersive historical field research in the (Finnish) U.S. Midwest1
On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing1
Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies from three activist-scholars1
Writing against the chain transmission of fear: Reflections on institutionalised ethics1
Digital mapping as feminist method: critical reflections1
Riding shotgun – Front-seat research and the socio-material considerations of ethnography on the move1
The Performative Narrative Interview: A creative strategy for data production drawing on dialogical narrative theory1
A day without Global North researchers: Making space for equitable collaboration after COVID-191
Foregrounding the background: A methodological reflection on the roles and effects of participant-generated photos1
Re-thinking vulnerability: Research fraud and bureaucratic harm in community-engaged online research1
Affecting photos: Photographs as shared, affective ethnographic spaces1
Book Review: Post-conflict Participatory Arts: Socially Engaged Development1
Taking deliberative research online: Lessons from four case studies1
Stop-motion storytelling: Exploring methods for animating the worlds of rare genetic disease1
Erratum to ‘Book review: Doing excellent social research with documents – Aimee Grant’1
Participatory research in and against time1
Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video1
Emotions in human research ethics guidelines: Beyond risk, harm and pathology1
Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth1
An intersectional reflexive account on positionality: researching Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim lone motherhood1
Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work1
Making a difference with matter in researchers’ positionality dynamics in qualitative inquiry1
Embracing the ‘inverted commas’, or How COVID-19 can show us new directions for ethnographic ‘fieldwork’1
Imagining research together and working across divides: Arts-informed research about young people’s (post) digital lives1
How can we do ethnographic research in a controversy? Lessons and reflections from a multi-sided ethnography of badger culling and bovine Tuberculosis1
AI-replicas as ethical practice: introducing an alternative to traditional anonymisation techniques in image-based research1
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