Systematic inquiry into barriers to researcher access: evidence from a homeless shelter
Systematic inquiry into barriers to researcher access: evidence from a homeless shelter
Geographers using qualitative methods face numerous challenges, including barriers to access to the research setting that emerge through the interactions among the researcher's identity, participants, and the research setting itself. However, few geographers have systematically traced, within a single research setting, (1) how barriers originate, (2) how they subsequently complicate the research enterprise, and (3) how they may potentially be overcome. Upon defining various generic barriers to access, I focus on the origins of, encounters with, and potential strategies to overcome two barriers (factions and spatiotemporal limits) during my research experiences at the Palms Mission, an emergency shelter in Central Los Angeles. Ultimately, understanding the negotiation of these barriers informs the broader research process.
qualitative research methodologies, barriers to access, homeless shelters
372-380
Deverteuil, Geoffrey
22636102-b1c3-47fc-936a-f370dd6d5856
August 2004
Deverteuil, Geoffrey
22636102-b1c3-47fc-936a-f370dd6d5856
Deverteuil, Geoffrey
(2004)
Systematic inquiry into barriers to researcher access: evidence from a homeless shelter.
The Professional Geographer, 56 (3), .
(doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.2004.05603006.x).
Abstract
Geographers using qualitative methods face numerous challenges, including barriers to access to the research setting that emerge through the interactions among the researcher's identity, participants, and the research setting itself. However, few geographers have systematically traced, within a single research setting, (1) how barriers originate, (2) how they subsequently complicate the research enterprise, and (3) how they may potentially be overcome. Upon defining various generic barriers to access, I focus on the origins of, encounters with, and potential strategies to overcome two barriers (factions and spatiotemporal limits) during my research experiences at the Palms Mission, an emergency shelter in Central Los Angeles. Ultimately, understanding the negotiation of these barriers informs the broader research process.
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Published date: August 2004
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qualitative research methodologies, barriers to access, homeless shelters
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/55351
ISSN: 0033-0124
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