Role Of Researcher

The Role of the Researcher in Qualitative Research Bethan Jones Swetketu Patnaik Sarah Robinson Wayne St-Amour

Theme 1 – Identity & Context 

What does the researcher do to retain: – – –

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Voice Self-interest Action orientation

How & where does the researcher see themselves making a difference? A tension emerges between the researcher and the ‘system’ requirements (institutional, academic journal publications, researcher community practices)

Theme 2 – Our ‘Collective’ Environment  Institutional

‘career’ pressures – PhD as an ‘apprenticeship’  Publication pressures – generate innovative theory but, don’t be too ‘different’  Researcher community pressures – boundaries or locus of expertise?

Theme 3 – Beyond the Dialectic How do we discover scenarios that transcend, the either/or condition that deplete energy by forcing choice of one polar opposite? We can engage in: – – – –

Networks Communities Impartial mentors Models

Ideas are bigger than one person’s individual capability

Researcher Role in Practice (one view) Researcher Engagement & Reflection

Networks Communities Mentors Models

Qualitative Researcher Practice Pressures from ‘the environment’

Researcher Role