Virtual via Teams
Seminario MARC 2023-2024 «Ética y antropología»
Sesión 2: Quality and ethics in qualitative research: a relational approach
Seminario MARC 2023-2024 «Ética y antropología»
Sesión 2: Quality and ethics in qualitative research: a relational approach
A cargo del Prof. Virpi Timonen (University of Helsinki, Finland), coordinado por el Dr. Fernando Vidal i la Dra. Blanca Deusdad (URV).
Despite the extensive literature on quality in qualitative research, understanding and demonstrating quality remains a challenge, especially for researchers who are new to qualitative research. Researchers tend to be more familiar with the core elements of research ethics (such as informed and voluntary consent), yet ethics and quality overlap in many ways. The purpose of this talk is to outline both paradigm-specific and cross-paradigm understandings of quality in qualitative research, before offering a parsimonious conception of the core constituents of quality, applicable and adaptable regardless of the paradigm that the (qualitative) researcher adopts. I will argue that quality in qualitative research is a relational process where the researcher constructs a set of relations that are constitutive of credibility and relevance. Quality in this understanding arises from formulating a research question that is relevant (for the studied concern and participants); sampling for (or accessing) data through a credible process that pertains to the relevant phenomenon; engaging analysis in a manner that is credible; and doing justice to the data while continuing to remain relevant to the studied concern. Quality is a set of relationships, threaded through the entire research process, between the researcher and the researched concern, the data, data analysis, and the audience or readership of the research. Concern with quality of qualitative inquiry layers an ethic of commitment over established formal research ethics procedures, achieved in practice through engaging a relational ethic of care at every stage of the research process.
La sesión está prevista para el 7 de noviembre entre las 17-19h y se realizará online mediante la plataforma MSTeams.
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