The Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone podcast brings author and professor Karen O’Reilly into challenging conversations with students, academics and practitioners around the world. Together, they explore how the toolkit approach - a curated collection of expert skills, knowledge, procedures, tools and information - can help navigate the complex terrain of contemporary qualitative research methods. 

I’m delighted to be joined this week by Professor Line Nyhagen. Line is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at Loughborough University, working in the areas of religion, gender, feminism and citizenship. She has authored several books and peer-reviewed articles and I especially want to draw attention to her recent book Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies: Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities (co-edited with Jennifer Cooke) , which sadly I heard about too late to mention in Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone.

In this podcast, focusing on Chapter 3, Being Ethical and Reflexive, we talk about how we both understand reflexive practice as an ongoing approach to reflexivity that takes place throughout a research project. Drawing on examples of reflexive practice in our own research engagements, we explore the notions of positionality and positioning, considering the extent to which our research might be limited or enhanced by who we are.

Both of us are driven by the desire to engage in ethical practice and to learn from our research participants with humility, so we also touched on issues of trust, rapport, risk and harm. Line shares a great example from her new book of what she terms a positionality statement—you will need to listen to the podcast to hear more about that.

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Intro music: Good Times Are Coming by Bohdan Kuzmin from Pixabay.

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