Qualitative Research Journal
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Digital storytelling with South African youth: a critical reflection
Diane Levine, Linda TheronIn this paper the authors share, and reflect critically on, the experience of using digital storytelling (DS) methods in a South African township. We interrogate the…
Marginalized engineering students' narrative construction through photo elicitation
Debalina Maitra, Brooke ColeyThe goal of this study is to explore an immediate step in understanding the lived experiences of under-represented students through metaphor construction and possibly…
How do we design and conduct cross-language research? A reflexive approach building on Squires' criteria
Daeul JeongThis paper demonstrates complexity surrounding cross-language research involving an interpreter and illustrates how the author attempted to ensure methodological rigor…
A constructivist grounded study on children's perception of loneliness after parental divorce
Soraya Ramezanzadeh, Ozra Etemadi, Faramarz AsanjaraniDivorce has negative effects on children, although emotions that children experience after parental divorce are open to different interpretations. Accordingly, this study…
Speaking the language of defence: narratives of doctoral examiners on the PhD viva
Wee Chun TanThis paper aims to investigate doctoral examiners' narratives on their expectations of the candidate's oral performance in the PhD viva. Both the PhD examiners and…
Cultural identity construction of Iranian EFL teachers: a narrative study in the context of private language institutes
Mahmood Reza Moradian, Akram Ramezanzadeh, Fatemeh ErshadiThis narrative study seeks to explore cultural identity (CI) construction of Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in light of Tong and Cheung's (2011…
Readiness for discharge from hospital: a concept analysis
Arezoo Monfared, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri, Nazila Javadi-Pashaki, Fateme JafaraghaeeThis study aimed to analyze and define the concept of readiness for hospital discharge (RHD) in patients with myocardial infarction (MI).
Discovering ethnography and passing on the baton: exploring life in a hospital school
Pat Sikes, Madeline PlattThis paper considers an undergraduate student's coming to, and use of, an ethnographic approach as a particularly appropriate way in which to investigate aspects of life…
Community members speak –“Why are healthcare personnel subjected to disrespect and violence?”
Lubna Ansari Baig, Zaeema Ahmer, Hira Tariq, Saleema Arif, Zaini SarwarHealthcare personnel (HCP) are at high risk of facing violence globally. Their sanctity and respect are threatened by violence in healthcare settings. Mostly, this occurs…
Addressing in/equalities: a re-imagined curriculum for low-attaining youth
Liz AtkinsThis paper aims to report on a project re-imagining of a Level 1 English-model broad vocational curriculum for low-attaining youth. The project, funded by Rothschild, has…
Navigating “the chaos”: teacher considerations while adapting curriculum and instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic
Erin NerlinoThe pandemic has presented many new challenges tasking teachers with meeting the various social-emotional, academic and logistical needs of students in the midst of an…
Extended qualitative content analysis: researching the United Nations and other international institutions
Janne MendeThis paper aims to introduce the extended qualitative content analysis (EQCA) method to integrate data-reducing and data-complicating research steps when conducting…
Wisdom in higher education: discussions with education academics utilising the Bhagavad Gita
Shelly Rampal, Sue Erica Smith, Anna SoterIn this paper we seek to provide insight as to how wisdom is, or might be, perceived and enacted in Higher Education contexts. Selected constructs of wisdom derived from…
“There was help for me at the time, but I didn't feel like I deserved it”: exploring the unmet needs of adolescents experiencing maternal cancer in Ireland
Leonor Rodriguez, Pat Dolan, Michael Kerin, Annmarie GroarkeThis secondary data analysis explores the unmet needs of adolescents experiencing maternal cancer in Ireland. Research has shown that one of the challenges adolescents…
A functional model explaining the dynamics of flourishing during adolescence: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Durgesh Nandinee, Suvashisa Rana, Naga SeemaThe objectives of the study were to explore the lived experiences of adolescents for understanding the process of their flourishing and develop a functional model to…
The SAMR model as a framework for scaffolding online chat: a theoretical discussion of the SAMR model as a research method during these “interesting” times
Janine ArantesThe purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of the substitution, augmentation, modification and redefinition (SAMR) model as a research method via a project that…
Positioning the researcher for studying Indian immigrant children's asthma in New Zealand: a reflective account
Indu Sudarsan, Karen Hoare, Nicolette Sheridan, Jennifer RobertsThis article aims to explore the meanings of positionality and demonstrate how reflective memos can illustrate positionality in a constructivist grounded theory (CGT) study.
Scoping review: barriers to primary care access experienced by immigrants and refugees in English-speaking countries
Hamza Kamran, Hadi Hassan, Mehr Un Nisa Ali, Danish Ali, Moizzuddin Taj, Zara Mir, Munj Pandya, Shirley R. Steinberg, Aamir Jamal, Mukarram ZaidiThis study examined 46 articles in total, which yielded 5 recurring themes: perceived discrimination, language barriers, socioeconomic barriers, cultural barriers and…
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