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View article: He Kept Me Safe: a play on intimate partner violence amongst gay and bisexual men
He Kept Me Safe: a play on intimate partner violence amongst gay and bisexual men Open
He Kept Me Safe is a multi-actor theatre play shedding light on the experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) amongst gay and bisexual men (GBM). The play is based on qualitative research conducted with 10 GBM survivors in Scotland us…
View article: ‘There is Something Missing Out There…’: A Performative Portrait Approach to Understanding the Experience of Living with Dementia
‘There is Something Missing Out There…’: A Performative Portrait Approach to Understanding the Experience of Living with Dementia Open
People with dementia (PwD) often face symptoms that influence their memories and capabilities to express themselves meaningfully. These symptoms make it particularly challenging for qualitative researchers to capture and demonstrate PwD's …
View article: Correction: Digital Psychotherapies for Adults Experiencing Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Correction: Digital Psychotherapies for Adults Experiencing Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Open
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View article: Correction: Digital Psychotherapies for Adults Experiencing Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Preprint)
Correction: Digital Psychotherapies for Adults Experiencing Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Preprint) Open
UNSTRUCTURED Depression affects 5% of adults and it is a major cause of disability worldwide. Digital psychotherapies offer an accessible solution addressing this issue. This systematic review examines a spectrum of digital psychotherapie…
View article: Digital Psychotherapies for Adults Experiencing Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Digital Psychotherapies for Adults Experiencing Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Open
Background Depression affects 5% of adults and it is a major cause of disability worldwide. Digital psychotherapies offer an accessible solution addressing this issue. This systematic review examines a spectrum of digital psychotherapies f…
View article: Digital Psychotherapies for Adults Experiencing Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Preprint)
Digital Psychotherapies for Adults Experiencing Depressive Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Depression affects 5% of adults and it is a major cause of disability worldwide. Digital psychotherapies offer an accessible solution addressing this issue. This systematic review examines a spectrum of digital psychotherapies …
View article: ‘Already Given Over’: Activism in Inquiry and in the World
‘Already Given Over’: Activism in Inquiry and in the World Open
This is the second of two part-issues on qualitative inquiry as activism. The first focused upon activism and/in the academy (academic work, academic cultures, academic practices, etc.), and this second focuses upon activism in the process…
View article: Testing proximity and intimacy
Testing proximity and intimacy Open
While sexuality, in general, has been an area of human life that has been the object of social regulation, gay sexualities have been disproportionately disciplined and oppressed in a way that both public and private life have been punished…
View article: The Everyday Lives of Gay Men
The Everyday Lives of Gay Men Open
The Everyday Lives of Gay Men draws on the expertise of twelve contributors from different countries and fields, writing from an autoethnographic first person approach.
\nPutting the power of personal stories at the centre of the construct…
View article: What is conjured when we talk about the everyday lives of gay men?
What is conjured when we talk about the everyday lives of gay men? Open
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents examples of how being gay infuses his professional, social, and married life, offering a rich narrative of the …
View article: Notes on the contributors' experiences
Notes on the contributors' experiences Open
Written by the editors, the chapter 'Notes on the contributor's experiences' is informed by the authors' experiences of writing their autoethnographic texts. Drawing on transcripts of Zoom conversations with the contributors, the chapter e…
View article: Conclusion
Conclusion Open
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides the view that being gay is a personal, social, and cultural phenomenon that has multiple implications in people…
View article: Qualitative Inquiry, Activism, the Academy, and the Infinite Game: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Qualitative Inquiry, Activism, the Academy, and the Infinite Game: An Introduction to the Special Issue Open
This is the first of two special issues on qualitative inquiry as activism. This first issue focuses upon activism and/in the academy (academic work, academic cultures, academic practices, etc.), the second on activism in the processes of …
View article: <i>With our Clipped Wings</i>: a research-based performance on gay men’s identities devised through narrative portraiture
<i>With our Clipped Wings</i>: a research-based performance on gay men’s identities devised through narrative portraiture Open
With our Clipped Wings is a performance that showcases the research findings of the doctoral research project “Understanding gay men’s identities through narratives of their erotic and romantic relationships.” The performance delivers comp…
View article: ‘Making narrative portraits: a methodological approach to analysing qualitative data’
‘Making narrative portraits: a methodological approach to analysing qualitative data’ Open
This paper proposes the method of ‘narrative portraiture’, which, located within the wider field of narrative studies, offers an analytical tool to narrative data. Two research projects, one on disability and one on identity, are used to i…
View article: The Confluence of Us
The Confluence of Us Open
This essay explores gay men's identities as processes of creative-relational construction of the self. I problematize the common sex-centered conception of being gay as “I am gay because I have sex with men.” Bringing together Paul Ricœur'…
View article: The Maltese cactus: an autoethnography of the colonization of desire
The Maltese cactus: an autoethnography of the colonization of desire Open
This article presents an autoethnographic account of an encounter between two men – a Mexican scholar and a British artist – who met in Malta, to examine how post-colonialism influences the seemingly personal experience of erotic desire. T…
View article: Reflexivity and ethical research practice while interviewing on sexual topics
Reflexivity and ethical research practice while interviewing on sexual topics Open
Reflexivity is a multimodal research feature that relies on the researcher’s subjectivity and self-awareness. This paper discusses uses of reflexivity when carrying out qualitative in-depth interviews on sexual topics. Through extracts of …
View article: Understanding gay men’s identities through narratives of their erotic and romantic relationships
Understanding gay men’s identities through narratives of their erotic and romantic relationships Open
‘Gay identity’ is an often taken-for-granted concept in research. When researchers refer to gay men’s identities, the term is used in relation to sexuality, as a labelling process, and operationalised through reference to homosexual relati…
View article: I'm So Glad I Came, but I Can't Wait to Leave
I'm So Glad I Came, but I Can't Wait to Leave Open
Can a theatre play provide actors and audiences with a feeling of being at home? This article is an autoethnographic work that addresses how the author finds, in his work directing the research-based theatre play Heavier than Air devised b…