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1. Diverse teams researching diversity: Negotiating identity, place and embodiment in qualitative research.

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Mathijssen, Brenda, McNally, Danny, Dogra, Sufyan, Maddrell, Avril, Beebeejaun, Yasminah, and McClymont, Katie

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MINORITIES, NOMADS, ATTITUDE (Psychology), CULTURAL pluralism, GROUP identity, INTERVIEWING, QUALITATIVE research, RESEARCH funding, INTERMENT, DEATH, BEREAVEMENT
Abstract

Fieldwork encounters are not only contingent to biographical subjectivities, but are mediated by a confluence of identity, place and embodiment. This paper offers reflexive accounts of researchers with various socio-cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, who collaborated as a team to examine the varied funerary experiences and needs of established minorities and recent migrants in England and Wales. Focusing on the researchers' varied personal experiences with death and bereavement and on their performances of minority and majority ethnic and migrant identities, the paper highlights the mediated and embodied nature of fieldwork. It argues that reflection on the various aspects of intersectional researcher identity is necessary for a rigorous fieldwork practice that takes transparency and politics into account. This facilitates a deeper understanding of the positionality of both researchers and interlocutors, and the situated co-production of knowledge. In doing so, the paper illustrates that conducting research with a diverse team of researchers contributes to better understanding the complexity and multifacetedness of social phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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2. Diverse teams researching diversity

Author

Sufyan Abid Dogra, Katie McClymont, Brenda Mathijssen, Avril Maddrell, Yasminah Beebeejaun, Danny McNally, University of Groningen, and Comparative Study of Religion

Subjects
media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, 0507 social and economic geography, 050401 social sciences methods, Identity (social science), Gender studies, Team research, embodiment, identity, diversity, minority ethnic, migration, death studies, migration, minority ethnic, diversity, Negotiation, death studies, 0504 sociology, History and Philosophy of Science, Reflexivity, Team research, Sociology, 050703 geography, Social Sciences (miscellaneous), identity, media_common, Diversity (politics), Qualitative research, embodiment
Abstract

Fieldwork encounters are not only contingent to biographical subjectivities, but are mediated by a\ud confluence of identity, place and embodiment. This paper offers reflexive accounts of researchers\ud with various socio-cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, who collaborated as a team to examine\ud the varied funerary experiences and needs of established minorities and recent migrants in\ud England and Wales. Focusing on the researchers’ varied personal experiences with death and\ud bereavement and on their performances of minority and majority ethnic and migrant identities, the\ud paper highlights the mediated and embodied nature of fieldwork. It argues that reflection on the various aspects of intersectional researcher identity is necessary for a rigorous fieldwork practice\ud that takes transparency and politics into account. This facilitates a deeper understanding of the\ud positionality of both researchers and interlocutors, and the situated co-production of knowledge.\ud In doing so, the paper illustrates that conducting research with a diverse team of researchers\ud contributes to better understanding the complexity and multifacetedness of social phenomena.

Published
2021