talking about methodology and method, i shall once again quote my greek ancestors and give the etymology of the word: Method (from Greek methodos or met hodos meaning “way across”). so, this is again a path, a journey, a ‘mobile’ force….including some sort of travelling…

today, when in tutorial with William, i learned a few new terms of ‘research terminology’ that is useful to know,also for my review panel coming up (for example: saturation, snowballing etc). I also wrestle with the question: How many participants are enough? … Read more »

As the review panel approaches, i know that one of the maain points i will be asked to defend will be the cloice of methodological chance in relation to the research.  I have read so many things around methodology during the past couple of years in particular. Earlier today i was reading a chapter by Colin Feltham titled “The Therapist as Researcher and Inquirer” cited in the Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy (2000, London : Sage) by Feltham and Horton and fond some useful quotes worthe recording for later use: … Read more »

I picked up the Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (3rd edition) by Denzin, N., K. and Lincoln, Y., S. (2005) and read the chapter Autoethnography: Making the Personal Political by Stacy Holman Jones. I think it is a powerful text but did tire me out after a while, especially when going into the ‘performance’ bit. I was expecting to fid more abroudn reflexivity and positioning the researcher’s own story into the research, sth that I am exploring in my own study but this paper wasnt written in that sort of way. However, i found some interesting quotes that i think i shall record for future possible use in my own writings. Here they are: … Read more »

A fellow researcher, S., has shared her thoughts around analysing qualitative interviews, drawn from reading Kvale’s book. She wrote on 6.5.07: … Read more »

 Given that whichever angle or path i follow during the research process, i have personal stories involved that reveal aspects of the inquiry and are ‘data’ themselves, i am looking for readings on autoethnography which comes into the ‘methodology discussion’. W. sent me an extract from D’s thesis that talks about that, i need to look at the references and relate the whole concept and method to my own study … Read more »