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Reflexivity, Positionality and Participatory Ethics: Negotiating Fieldwork Dilemmas in International Research Open
There are critical disjunctures between aspects of everyday behaviour in the field and the University’s institutional frameworks that aim to guide/enforce good ethical practice, as the conduct of fieldwork is always contextual, relational,…
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Decolonizing Methodologies in Qualitative Research: Creating Spaces for Transformative Praxis Open
Though there is no standard model or practice for what decolonizing research methodology looks like, there are ongoing scholarly conversations about theoretical foundations, principal components, and practical applications. However, as qua…
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Positionality practices and dimensions of impact on equity research: A collaborative inquiry and call to the community Open
Background Many engineering education researchers acknowledge that their positionality impacts their research. Practices for reporting positionality vary widely and rarely incorporate a nuanced discussion of the impact of demographic ident…
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Benefits, Motivations, and Challenges of International Collaborative Research: A Sociology of Science Case Study Open
Contemporary science is marked by expanding and diverse forms of teamwork. Collaboration across organizational and cultural boundaries extends the possibilities of discovery. International collaborative research projects often provide find…
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Toward a Moderate Autoethnography Open
Autoethnography is an avant-garde method of qualitative inquiry that has captured the attention of an ever-increasing number of scholars from a variety of disciplines. Personal experience methods can offer a new and unique vantage point fr…
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Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research Open
Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research by Mario Luis Small and Jessica McCrory Calarco is a comprehensive guide that offers a framework for evaluating the quality of qualitative research. The book i…
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The Shadowban Cycle: an autoethnography of pole dancing, nudity and censorship on Instagram Open
This paper contributes to the social media moderation research space by examining the still under-researched “shadowban”, a form of light and secret censorship targeting what Instagram defines as borderline content, particularly affecting …
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Learning with ChatGPT 3.5 as a more knowledgeable other: an autoethnographic study Open
ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence language model introduced in November 2022, is potentially applicable in many contexts, including higher education. Although academics are already using it to draft papers or develop search queries for s…
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I’m Interested in Autoethnography, but How Do I Do It? Open
Autoethnography is one of the qualitative research methodologies that remains somewhat mysterious to many scholars. While the use of autoethnography has expanded across numerous fields, it can be difficult to find much guidance about the p…
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Ethical Autoethnography: Is it Possible? Open
Autoethnography is a widely applied qualitative research method to examine self-experience in relation to life events, and also situated experiences in cultural and institutional contexts. In this paper the ethical challenges arising in co…
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Bourdieu and Critical Autoethnography: Implications for Research, Writing, and Teaching Open
This article argues that by combining critical ethnographic and autoethnographic perspectives we can move beyond the insider/outsider dualism, better understand the ways in which stories of personal experience are “strategic,” and interrog…
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COVID-19 Impacts on Teaching and Learning: A Collaborative Autoethnography by Two Higher Education Lecturers Open
The phenomenon of the Covid-19 lockdown in New Zealand during 2020 enabled two Higher Education (HE) lecturers to reflect on grappling with new technologies, changes in lifestyle and livelihoods, and the impact that social isolation had on…
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I lost my baby today: Embodied writing and learning in organizations Open
This article focuses on miscarriage and the sharing of intimate experiences as an example of alternative writing that can be used to challenge and resist dominant masculine discourse in academia. It steps back from patriarchal forms of wri…
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We Are Woke: A Collaborative Critical Autoethnography of Three “Womxn” of Color Graduate Students in Higher Education Open
This critical collaborative autoethnography examines how three “womxn” of color (Asian American, Latina, and African American) graduate students experience and resist intersectional racism and sexism in higher education. The authors reflec…
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Writing the doctoral thesis differently Open
Writing a doctoral thesis is a testament to years of anxiety, excitement, confusion, terror and passion. A thesis is, however, much more than just an output of learning. It is a formative process through which a doctoral student learns wha…
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Sexual abuse and the grooming process in sport: Learning from Bella's story Open
Through a process of collaborative autoethnography, we explore the experiences of one female athlete named Bella who was groomed and then sexually abused by her male coach. Bella’s story signals how the structural conditions and power rela…
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A Sample of One Open
First-person research (i.e., research that involves data collection and experiences from the researcher themselves) continues to become a viable addition and, possibly even, alternative to more traditional HCI methods. While we have seen t…
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Bullying and the neoliberal university: A co-authored autoethnography Open
The purpose of this article is to deepen the understanding of academic bullying as a consequence of neoliberal reforms in a university. Academics in contemporary universities have been put under pressure by the dominance of neoliberal proc…
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South African Higher Education Institutions at the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Sense-Making and Lessons Learnt Open
After the unprecedented changes experienced in higher education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a need to integrate initial thoughts and reflective experience to decide on the way forward. This study aimed to reflect on, and make se…
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Critical Autoethnography in Pursuit of Educational Equity: Introduction to the IJME Special Issue Open
In this introduction to the special issue of IJME, we highlight critical autoethnography’s potential for connecting the deeply personal experiences of race, gender, culture, language, sexuality, and other aspects of marginalization and pri…
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Who’s Afraid of ‘Toxic Masculinity’? Open
Part autoethnography, part critique, this essay details the author's personal experience with the far-right media world and explores the universal opposition to "toxic masculinity" from the Left and the Right. The Left opposes the substanc…
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Autoethnography: introducing ‘I’ into medical education research Open
Context Autoethnography is a methodology that allows clinician‐educators to research their own cultures, sharing insights about their own teaching and learning journeys in ways that will resonate with others. There are few examples of auto…
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Good Autoethnography Open
As Pelias astutely argued more than two decades ago, we devote much of our waking life to critique and evaluation.1 We assess our and others' (re)actions. We determine whether certain foods, drinks, and flavors will quench us, give us ener…
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A Methodology for the Marginalised: Surviving Oppression and Traumatic Fieldwork in the Neoliberal Academy Open
This article proposes that survival may be considered a research method for social researchers, especially if they are undertaking fieldwork within marginalised communities of which they are a part. Drawing on an autoethnographic account o…
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Navigating Graduate School with a Disability Open
In graduate school, people with disabilities use disability accommodations to learn, network, and do research. However, these accommodations, often scheduled ahead of time, may not work in many situations due to uncertainty and spontaneity…
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Academic identities and sense of place: A collaborative autoethnography in the neoliberal university Open
Neoliberalism, precarious jobs, and control of work have multiple effects on academic identities as our allegiances to valued social groups and our connections to meaningful locations are challenged. While identities in neoliberal universi…
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Strategies for Reflexive Ethnography in the Smart Home: Autoethnography of Silence and Emotion Open
Smart technologies in the home promise efficiency and control, but this simplistic story obscures their potential to reconfigure relationships and introduce new tensions into domestic contexts. This article explores ethnography as a method…
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A Case Study of a Case Study: Analysis of a Robust Qualitative Research Methodology Open
A unique multi-part qualitative study methodology is presented from a study which tracked the transformative journeys of four career-changing women from STEM fields into secondary education. The article analyzes the study’s use of archived…
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An Autoethnographic Case Study of Generative Artificial Intelligence's Utility for Accessibility Open
With the recent rapid rise in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) tools,\nit is imperative that we understand their impact on people with disabilities,\nboth positive and negative. However, although we know that AI in general poses\nb…
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Autoethnography and cognitive adaptation: two powerful buffers against the negative consequences of workplace bullying and academic mobbing Open
Work is undoubtedly fundamental to human life, social development and the economic development of individuals, organizations and nations. However, the experience of working is not always pleasant as there are many instances where relations…