Qualitative Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Qualitative Research is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical dilemmas63
Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece reports as epic and drama38
Doing research into Indigenous issues being non-Indigenous34
Qualitative research in crisis: A narrative-practice methodology to delve into the discourse and action of the unheard in the COVID-19 pandemic34
Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia33
Turning the tables or business as usual? COVID-19 as a catalyst in North–South research collaborations32
Challenging methodologies: Deploying liberatory epistemologies to unlock creative research practices32
Enhancing participatory research with young children through comic-illustrated ethnographic field notes32
Fusion of horizons: Realizing a meaningful understanding in qualitative research22
Children as co-researchers and confessional research tales: Researcher positionality and the (dis)comforts of research22
Tupua te Kawa: Indigenous methodologies for non-Indigenous (and Indigenous) organisations21
Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography, security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia21
Absence, multiplicity and the boundaries of research? Reflections on online asynchronous focus groups20
Gendered fieldwork with Chinese police: Negotiations among a researcher, gatekeeper, and participants19
Remote qualitative research after the COVID-19 pandemic: Ethical reflections from a prepandemic study with families of the enforced disappeared in Perú18
In praise of awkwardness in the field: Increasing our understanding of relational concepts by reflecting on researchers’ emotion work17
Embodied graffiti and street art research16
Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method16
Emerging ethical challenges in researching vulnerable groups during the COVID-1915
Notes from a field: a qualitative exploration of human–animal relations in a volunteer shepherding project15
Using crystallization to understand loneliness in later life: integrating social science and creative narratives in sensitive qualitative research14
Examining the value of using naturally occurring data to facilitate qualitative health research with ‘seldom heard’ ‘vulnerable’ groups: A research note on inpatient care14
Book Review: Research Exposed: How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age13
Researching tribute bands: tools, counter-interpretations and extending research relations to Facebook in a tight network13
Secondary ethnographic analysis: Thinking about things13
Engaging older people through visual participatory research: Insights and reflections13
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork13
Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative methodology13
The research politics of (re)naming participants: A sociology of names perspective12
Becoming interested—the evolvement of research interest in case study research on sports12
Achieving co-presence when together and apart: Hybrid engagements and multi-modal collaborative research with urban indigenous youth12
Drawing the researcher into data: drawing as an analytical tool in qualitative research12
Book Review: Qualitative Inquiry at a Crossroads: Political, performative and methodological reflections11
Making ‘meanwhile. . .’: representing queer African youth through spontaneous collaborative graphic autoethnography11
Troubling go-alongs through the lens of care11
The triality of roles for the trilingual researcher: Processes from a community-engaged qualitative cross-language health study10
Chasing scorpions across North Africa: Ethical reflections on life story research with Sub-Saharan migrants10
Managing neutrality, rapport, and antiracism in qualitative interviews10
Told and untold stories: Finding new ways to represent the voices of culturally diverse learners through narrative vignettes10
Giving up the ‘Good Research Child’9
“Wait, really, stop, stop!”: Go-along interviews with visually disabled people and the pitfalls of ableist methodologies9
The challenges of ‘researching with responsibility’: Developing intersectional reflexivity for understanding surfing, place and community in Aotearoa New Zealand9
Book Review: Richa Nagar, Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability9
Ethnographer as creation: A Whiteheadian interpretation of the ethnographic subject8
Can everyone hear me? Reflections on the use of global online workshops for promoting inclusive knowledge generation8
Implementing continuous consent in qualitative research8
Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: Nuancing power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women8
Trust and temporality in participatory research8
Face value: Recruitment lessons for research interviews8
Drawing in-situ: Matters of care and representation in daily life with dementia8
Unveiling racism through qualitative research: The politics of interpretation7
Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research7
Post-research reflexivity in qualitative research: Through cloaks and cross-threading7
It’s a sprint, not a marathon: a case for building short-term partnerships for community-based participatory research7
Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth7
Thinking with edges – and at the edges: some retrospective reflections on fieldwork and missed connections7
Positionality, relationality, place, and land: Considerations for ethical research with communities7
On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing7
Autopsy as a site and mode of inquiry: de/composing the ghoulish hu/man gaze6
Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video6
Book Review: The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research: Addressing Moments of Discomfort6
Quest for Equity: Using multiple methodologies to promote collaboration and engagement in anti-racism education6
More than participatory? From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’ remote practices using digital technologies6
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines6
“Under threat”: handling threats during ethnographic fieldwork6
Navigating institutional ethics processes: Insights from higher degree by research students and supervisors doing research in fragile contexts6
Using guanxi to conduct elite interviews in China6
“You have the right to love and be loved”: participatory theatre for disability justice with self-advocates6
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy6
Addressing the binaries of regional/urban and boundaries of research methodologies in and through ‘slow’ research with women from non-urban communities6
Transnational online research: recognising multiple contexts in Skype-to-phone interviews6
Book review: Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents5
Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions and methodological impacts5
Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation5
My dear diaries: Following, valuing and reflecting on moments with research materials5
COVID times make ‘deep listening’ explicit: changing the space between interviewer and participant5
Uncomfortable interviews: A research journey of discomfort and how to make the most of it5
Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies from three activist-scholars5
Thinking methodologies with textiles, thinking textiles as methodologies in the context of transitional justice5
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Navigating the challenges of research in Ghana5
Indigenizing collaborative methods in studying human–water relations in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia, Canada5
Creating with ‘voice without subject’: An aesthetic reconceptualization of voice5
Embodied reflexivity in voice-only interviewing: Navigating gender in difficult-to-access contexts5
Ethical challenges in participatory action research: Experiences and insights from an arts-based study in the pacific5
Digitally shaped ethnographic relationships during a global pandemic and beyond4
Book Review: A Guidebook for Novice Qualitative Researchers4
Reflexivity in research teams through narrative practice and textile-making4
You fold the robes to perfection! A story from doing working participant observation4
Life history mapping: Exploring journeys into and through housing and homelessness4
Methods for more-than-human wellbeing: A collaborative journey with object interviews4
Studying insecurity from relative safety — Dealing with methodological blind spots4
Practicing care-full scholarship: Exploring the use of ‘visual informed consent’ in a study of motherhood, health and agroecology in Coventry, UK4
Covid-19 and research in conflict-affected contexts: distanced methods and the digitalisation of suffering4
Visual reasoning: the role of abduction within qualitative research on interprofessional working3
Participatory research in and against time3
The borders of theory: Towards an artful ontology of knowing in qualitative research3
Tracing the smells of childhoods with an olfactory research inquiry3
Sociocultural contexts and power dynamics in research interviews: Methodological considerations in Confucian society3
(Un) exceptional times: Compounding crises and local stakeholders in field work during COVID-193
Telling visual stories of loss and hope: body mapping with mothers about contact after child removal3
Good listening: A key element in establishing quality in qualitative research3
Visibilities and invisibilities in data reuse: video records of practice in education3
Translating Interviews, interpreting lives: bi-lingual research analysis informing less westernised views of international student mobility3
Erratum to ‘Book review: Doing excellent social research with documents – Aimee Grant’3
Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction3
Images as ‘potentials’: Feminist new materialist orientations to photovoice3
Digitally dispersed, remotely engaged: Interrogating participation in virtual photovoice3
Reflecting on the use of Google Docs for online interviews: Innovation in qualitative data collection3
Drawing as a method of researching social representations3
On staying: Extended temporalities, relationships and practices in community engaged scholarship3
Re-thinking research interview methods through the multisensory constitution of place3
Fostering habits of care: Reframing qualitative data sharing policies and practices2
Solidarity as methodological praxis2
Zine-making for critical cultural justice inquiry: a qualitative multi-method approach to reimagining Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area, Norfolk Island2
Should ChatGPT help with my research? A caution against artificial intelligence in qualitative analysis2
Co-constructing participatory ethics to address hierarchy and inequality: Social work ethics in research practice2
Foregrounding the background: A methodological reflection on the roles and effects of participant-generated photos2
Listen to her: Re-finding culturally responsive poetic inquiry as home knowing for women of African descent2
Creating translanguaging affirmative space through artifactual literacies: towards addressing power imbalance with multilingual parents2
Hierarchy and inequality in research: Practices, ethics and experiences2
Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday, the imaginary, and the void2
Why do people participate in research interviews? Participant orientations and ethical contracts in interviews with victims of interpersonal violence2
Structures for Indigenous sovereignty in research: Disrupting settler colonial methods and relations in research partnerships2
A novice inquiry into unique adequacy2
Researching children's COVID-19 friendship experiences online: Methodological and ethical opportunities and challenges2
Everyday power dynamics and hierarchies in qualitative research: The role of humour in the field2
Ethnomethodological ethnography: Historical, conceptual, and methodological foundations2
My face turned red, but it led me … nowhere. Notes on epistemically pointless embarrassment in ethnographic practice2
A Bergsonian analysis of time in qualitative research: Understanding lived experiences of street homeless people in Moscow2
Book Review: Ethnographic Engagements: Encounters with the Familiar and the Strange2
The sociology and practice of translation: interaction, indexicality, and power2
Recognizing the never quite absent: de facto usage, ethical issues, and applications of covert research in difficult research contexts2
‘Being affected’: The epistemic value of vulnerability in fieldwork2
Thinking with autoethnography in collaborative research: A critical, reflexive approach to relational ethics1
Partisanship and positionality in qualitative research: Exploring the influences of the researcher’s experiences of serious crime on the research process1
Hopes and challenges of creating and using a smartphone application. Working on and working with a digital mobile tool in qualitative sociospatial research1
Trust, nuance, and care: Advantages and challenges of repeat qualitative interviews1
Taking Live Methods slowly: inhabiting the social world through dwelling, doodling and describing1
Object-oriented interviews in qualitative longitudinal research1
Charlas y Comidas: Humanising focus groups and interviews1
Elicitation using kit bag methods: Exploring embodied practice with female boxers1
Archives of place, feeling, and time: Immersive historical field research in the (Finnish) U.S. Midwest1
Translating (in) the margins: The dilemmas, ethics, and politics of a transnational feminist approach to translating in multilingual qualitative research1
AI-replicas as ethical practice: introducing an alternative to traditional anonymisation techniques in image-based research1
Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage1
Designing afro-emancipatory qualitative research with and for Black people1
Remaking a sense of place: Using video methods to research a London ten-pin bowling league1
Remote interviewing, accessibility, and scams: Notes on a case of fraudulent responses to a recruitment flyer1
A qualitative fallacy: Life trapped in interpretations and stories1
Imagining research together and working across divides: Arts-informed research about young people’s (post) digital lives1
Participatory data analysis in social change work: empowering, practical, or both?1
On assistants and researchers: Power, positionality and vulnerability during fieldwork on the Colombian conflict1
‘Can’t Help Myself’: on generative AI, the performance of qualitative research and slow scholarship1
Book Review: Handbook of Autoethnography by Adams, T. E., Holman Jones, S., & Ellis, C.1
Provoked perplexity in live methods1
Seeing bodies in social sciences research: Body mapping and violent extremism in Kenya1
‘Am I resistant to a military wife identity? Maybe not entirely’: Animating life history interviews as fictive diaries1
Shifting power dynamics in interviews with children: a minority ethnic, working-class researcher’s reflections1
Emotions in human research ethics guidelines: Beyond risk, harm and pathology1
Taking deliberative research online: Lessons from four case studies1
Mapping working practices as systems: An analytical model for visualising findings from an institutional ethnography1
‘Softening hedges’ as analytic lens and methodological tool in research on advance care planning with Vietnamese migrants1
Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments: Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher1
North-South research collaboration during complex global emergencies: Qualitative knowledge production and sharing during COVID-191
Participatory video from a distance: co-producing knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic using smartphones1
Methodology for the disliked: a call for situated ethics in close-up research with anti-gender groups1
“He/his/she/her/father/mother/son/daughter”: A critical reflection of reproductions of cis-normativity and cis-dominance in preparing qualitative data for analysis1
Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK1
Questioning ‘voice’ and silence: Exploring creative and participatory approaches to researching with children through a Reggio Emilian lens1
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