Gender, identity and experience: researching marginalised groups
Gender, identity and experience: researching marginalised groups
This article will examine the status of the researcher when conducting research with Gypsy families and Asian women. It will explore how the positioning of the researcher as an outsider and insider can affect the research relationship and can be a useful and privileged position from which to engage in the research process. Gender, identity and experience can create a shared empathy and a shared understanding between the respondent and the researcher in which trust and rapport can encourage respondents to open up and discuss their personal experiences. The article also examines the complexities and tensions associated with how the status and identity of the interviewer can affect the research relationship and how an appreciation of difference is fundamental to this process.
Race, Gender, Power, Research process, Asian and Gypsy Traveller communities
Bhopal, Kalwant
5ac0970e-1c42-4757-87df-6fdb6f826314
2010
Bhopal, Kalwant
5ac0970e-1c42-4757-87df-6fdb6f826314
Bhopal, Kalwant
(2010)
Gender, identity and experience: researching marginalised groups.
Women's Studies International Forum, 33 (1).
(doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2009.12.005).
Abstract
This article will examine the status of the researcher when conducting research with Gypsy families and Asian women. It will explore how the positioning of the researcher as an outsider and insider can affect the research relationship and can be a useful and privileged position from which to engage in the research process. Gender, identity and experience can create a shared empathy and a shared understanding between the respondent and the researcher in which trust and rapport can encourage respondents to open up and discuss their personal experiences. The article also examines the complexities and tensions associated with how the status and identity of the interviewer can affect the research relationship and how an appreciation of difference is fundamental to this process.
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Published date: 2010
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Race, Gender, Power, Research process, Asian and Gypsy Traveller communities
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Social Justice & Inclusive Education
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/72118
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