Joan M. Eakin
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View article: Practising “soft science” in the field of health
Practising “soft science” in the field of health Open
While many reject the label of “soft science” that is often used derogatorily to characterize qualitative research in the health sciences, we propose we should embrace and redefine the label, asserting its methodological potency for unders…
View article: Advancing the Impact of Critical Qualitative Research on Policy, Practice, and Science
Advancing the Impact of Critical Qualitative Research on Policy, Practice, and Science Open
Discourses of research impact shape the ways in which critical qualitative research and researchers are evaluated in contemporary academic environments. Mainstream conceptualizations of research impact arise from a positivist perspective t…
View article: <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 policy measures—Advocating for the inclusion of the social determinants of health in modelling and decision making
<span>COVID</span>‐19 policy measures—Advocating for the inclusion of the social determinants of health in modelling and decision making Open
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
View article: “Value-adding” Analysis: Doing More With Qualitative Data
“Value-adding” Analysis: Doing More With Qualitative Data Open
Much qualitative research produces little new knowledge. We argue that this is largely due to deficits of analysis. Researchers too seldom venture beyond cataloguing data into pre-existing concepts and scouting for “themes,” and fail to ex…
View article: Doing Science Differently: A Framework for Assessing the Careers of Qualitative Scholars in the Health Sciences
Doing Science Differently: A Framework for Assessing the Careers of Qualitative Scholars in the Health Sciences Open
Hiring and promotion of qualitative researchers in the health sciences, in Canada and internationally, is impacted by the prestige of quantification as the ultimate measure of scientific quality in current academic and health-care settings…