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Role of Researcher

The document discusses the role of the researcher in qualitative research. It addresses 3 main themes: 1) the researcher's identity and how they see themselves making an impact, 2) pressures from the institutional and research environment, and 3) how researchers can transcend pressures by engaging in networks, communities, and impartial mentors and models. The role of the researcher is situated between engagement and reflection on qualitative research practice and pressures from the broader research environment.

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Role of Researcher

The document discusses the role of the researcher in qualitative research. It addresses 3 main themes: 1) the researcher's identity and how they see themselves making an impact, 2) pressures from the institutional and research environment, and 3) how researchers can transcend pressures by engaging in networks, communities, and impartial mentors and models. The role of the researcher is situated between engagement and reflection on qualitative research practice and pressures from the broader research environment.

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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:
– 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 Qualitative Researcher
Practice Pressures from
Networks ‘the environment’
Communities
Mentors
Models
Researcher
Role

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