Qualitative Research

Article	Citations
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective	59
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things	55
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama	37
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology	36
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies	34
Situated empathy: The politics and ethics of feeling with the other	30
Saturation – a one-size-fits-all fallacy: A critique rooted in phenomenological and qualitative content analysis perspectives	26
Amplifying marginalized voices: The necessity of anonymity for diversity and inclusivity in qualitative research	25
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method	25
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities	22
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it	21
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections	21
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	17
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts	16
Transcript frame analysis: Thinking with Goffman about interview data	15
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society	15
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power	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
Recalibrating epistemic alignment: A researcher's journey toward methodological coherence	12
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	12
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage	12
Ethnography in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis: Both, neither, or something else altogether?	11
Opening reflexive spaces: Maps as an anticipatory tool in expert interviews	11

Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended ethnography	11
Richness, rapport, and rigor in digital interviews: Rethinking methodological presence through the “pocket-size ethnographer” positionality	11
Off track or on point? Side comments in focus groups with teens	11
Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field	11
Researching masculinities and food protein practices: A trio of more-than-human participatory workshops	10
Speculative approaches in social science and design research: Methodological implications of working in ‘the gap’ of uncertainty	10
Custodians of an ecology of data: Foundational theory and practice for data analysis in a complex world	10
Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory approaches for researchers and community partners	10
Pandemic ethnography: Fieldwork in transformed social space	10
The continuum of rapport: Ethical tensions in qualitative interviews with vulnerable participants	10
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
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
Following one’s nose: ‘Smellwalks’ through qualitative data	9
Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of scholarship	9
Viewing life as a timeline: Digital visual research to retrace people's journeys	9
Insider/outsider debates: Making whiteness visible in the Irish context	9
Cocreating a sonopoetic analysis	9
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants	8
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews	8
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork	8
‘Say cheese!’ Exploring consent and performance in the ‘shutter moment’ of School Photo Day	8
Building and sustaining equitable and inclusive transdisciplinary research teams: A case for in-person collaboration	7
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia	7
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships	6
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation	6
‘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	6
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: Towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents	6
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy	6
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction	6
Interviewing respondents with a similar social status: Power, positionality, poetics	6
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice	6
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-19	6
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void	5
Screens and clouds: Methodological changes and ethical dilemmas when researching digital literacy socialisation of a toddler	5
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries	5
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis	5
Remaking a sense of place: Using video methods to research a London ten-pin bowling league	5
Visual methods in disaster recovery research: Cultural and ethical challenges in implementation	5
Driving together: Shared car journeys as research space	5
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher	4
The dilemma of researching home; controversies of researching Basarwa and the shifting positionalities	4
Document analysis: How to make sense of legal and authoritative texts	4
Vulnerability is not a checklist: Grounded Normative Theory in global deliberation	4
Ethnographic focus groups in communities of practice: Maximal variation and emic perspectives	4
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research	4
Provoked perplexity in live methods	4
The Researcher-As-Obstacle: A methodology for the study of creativity while it happens	4
Researcher street race-gender in qualitative field work	4
Between you and me: Researcher-researched positionalities, trauma, and paradoxes in knowledge-production	4

Caring in qualitative interviews: A working model for interviews in the transformative paradigm	4
Making consent meaningful: The ‘dance’ of seeking consent for an ethnography in the family court	4
On being a ‘passive observer’: The corporeal and affective dimensions of power in observational research on trafficked women in criminal proceedings	4
Fieldwork in precarious times: Reflecting on ‘dangerous fields’	4
Creative writing as critical fieldwork methodology	4
Book Review: Epistemic Flows: Migrant Scholars Engage Migration Scholarship by Gemignani M, Hernández-Albújar Y, & Sládková J GemignaniMHernández-Alb	4
Decolonizing methodology: Co-designing research with the voices and footprints of the community	4
The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study	3
Beyond vulnerable populations: vulnerability, fieldwork and knowledge production	3
Emerging ethical challenges in researching vulnerable groups during the COVID-19	3
Using qualitative research co-design for intergenerational perspectives of online play	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
Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography, security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia	3
‘Episodic participant observation’: Critiquing the ideal and offering an inclusive version of participant observation as a supplementary method in qualitative studies	3
Prime incentives, ethical dilemmas: The case of Amazon gift cards and lessons for integrity in social research	3
Who can you trust these days?: Dealing with imposter participants during online recruitment and data collection	3
Ethical challenges confronted in non-clinical, public health research with young people in England	3
Transcribing encounters with the ‘wild’: The neglected case of the poetics of ordinary talk	3
Retraction Notice: “I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota	3
Plática as methodology and method: Using a critical lens to research AfroLatine and Queer Latine college experiences	3
“Say more?” Refusal, resonance, and the feminist ear in academic review	3
Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: Nuancing power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women	3
Book Review: Doing Good Social Science: Lessons from Immersion, Understanding Social Life and Exploring the In-between by Christopher R. Matthews Matthew	3
Towards a natural semiotics for centralising ‘out of this world’ images in research with children	3
‘We are like mice here, in a lab!’ Visibility as a reflexive tool for qualitative research	3
‘Softening hedges’ as analytic lens and methodological tool in research on advance care planning with Vietnamese migrants	2
Translating (in) the margins: The dilemmas, ethics, and politics of a transnational feminist approach to translating in multilingual qualitative research	2
Visual reasoning: the role of abduction within qualitative research on interprofessional working	2
Dilemmas in embodied methods: Towards holistic description in qualitative research	2
At home in the field, in the field at home? Reflections on power and fieldwork in familiar settings	2
The rise of virtual yarning: An Indigenist research method	2
‘It looks like an abandoned site!’: Emotions and imagination in a focused organisational ethnography of French–Italian construction sites	2
North-South research collaboration during complex global emergencies: Qualitative knowledge production and sharing during COVID-19	2
Remote interviewing, accessibility, and scams: Notes on a case of fraudulent responses to a recruitment flyer	2
Mapping working practices as systems: An analytical model for visualising findings from an institutional ethnography	2
Remote collaborative fieldwork in the global South: Equity implications for researchers and participants	2
Multi-sited research disrupted: chokepoints and the Panama Canal	2
Portraits of Territory : A methodological tool to create dialogue and alternatives around territorial conflicts	2
Using interview excerpts to facilitate focus group discussion	2
Fieldwork, participation, and unique-adequacy-in-action	2
Exploring art-oriented interview: An arts-based methodological tool to elicit narratives	2
Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical dilemmas	2
Participant observation in the 21st century: How the digital dimension matters for all ethnographers	2
Trust, nuance, and care: Advantages and challenges of repeat qualitative interviews	2
Elicitation using kit bag methods: Exploring embodied practice with female boxers	2
Understanding the contested, complex or confusing: effective strategies for collaborative thematic analysis using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software	2
Qualitative research with LLM chatbots: Technological reflexivity for interpretative technology	2
Eating, inventing, and caring together: Ephemeral commensality in an experimental restaurant	2
Vibes-based methods	2
Learning together: Insights on knowledge production from a study on sexual and gender-related violence	2
Young migrants on the move: Ethics and methods of conducting qualitative research ‘in the moment’	1
Re-thinking vulnerability: Research fraud and bureaucratic harm in community-engaged online research	1
Through the looking glass: A step-by-step guide to arts-based reflexivity	1
Achieving co-presence when together and apart: Hybrid engagements and multi-modal collaborative research with urban indigenous youth	1
Desire-led futures of anti-colonial methodologies	1
Stop-motion storytelling: Exploring methods for animating the worlds of rare genetic disease	1
Absence, multiplicity and the boundaries of research? Reflections on online asynchronous focus groups	1
‘Can’t Help Myself’: on generative AI, the performance of qualitative research and slow scholarship	1
Giving up the ‘Good Research Child’	1
The politics of gatekeeping: respondents as gatekeepers and gatekeepers as respondents	1
Exploring client-therapist relationships through joint interviews	1
‘Being affected’: The epistemic value of vulnerability in fieldwork	1
Future memory work: unsettling temporal Othering through speculative research practices	1
On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing	1
Turning the tables or business as usual? COVID-19 as a catalyst in North–South research collaborations	1
The Slalom Method: How to zig-zag between digital methods and traditional methods in ethnography	1
More-than-human research: Being with as onto-epistemological method	1
Preparatory participation as method: Reconceptualising pre-fieldwork through embodied and relational practice	1
Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth	1
AI-replicas as ethical practice: introducing an alternative to traditional anonymisation techniques in image-based research	1
‘We need the vibes’: Co-designing safe spaces to talk about loneliness with young people	1
Thinking with edges – and at the edges: some retrospective reflections on fieldwork and missed connections	1
Foregrounding the background: A methodological reflection on the roles and effects of participant-generated photos	1
Chasing scorpions across North Africa: Ethical reflections on life story research with Sub-Saharan migrants	1
A day without Global North researchers: Making space for equitable collaboration after COVID-19	1
Researching everyday geographies of caregiving youth: Versatile Everyday Emotion Mapping (VEEMethod)	1
Disrupting norms of time and talk: Email interviews as a neurodivergent-affirming method for ethical and rich qualitative research	1
Reimagining environmental education research through narrative inquiry as a relational ethical practice of care and reciprocity with teachers	1
Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work	1
Enhancing participatory research with young children through comic-illustrated ethnographic field notes	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
Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video	1
In praise of awkwardness in the field: Increasing our understanding of relational concepts by reflecting on researchers’ emotion work	1
Book Review: Post-conflict Participatory Arts: Socially Engaged Development	1
Using creative methods in understanding lesbian/queer women sex worker identities in South Australia	1
Practicing care-full scholarship: Exploring the use of ‘visual informed consent’ in a study of motherhood, health and agroecology in Coventry, UK	1
Online, offline, hybrid: Methodological reflection on event ethnography in (post-)pandemic times	1
Challenging methodologies: Deploying liberatory epistemologies to unlock creative research practices	1
Pain(ful) research: Hyperembodiment and the value of lived experience of pain in qualitative research	1
Remote qualitative research after the COVID-19 pandemic: Ethical reflections from a prepandemic study with families of the enforced disappeared in Perú	1
The challenges of ‘researching with responsibility’: Developing intersectional reflexivity for understanding surfing, place and community in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK	1
An intersectional reflexive account on positionality: researching Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim lone motherhood	1
Writing against the chain transmission of fear: Reflections on institutionalised ethics	1
Making a difference with matter in researchers’ positionality dynamics in qualitative inquiry	1
Affecting photos: Photographs as shared, affective ethnographic spaces	1
Vulnerability in procedural ethics: A study of 44 national research ethics guidelines	1
Exploration and specificity: a critical analysis of uses of comics as a method across qualitative research processes	1
Learning danger: Cultural difference and the limits of trust in dangerous fieldworks	1
Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies from three activist-scholars	1
Troubling go-alongs through the lens of care	1
The elephant in the room: Arguments against horizontalized line-by-line coding in qualitative research	1