Flexible Methodologies: A Case for Approaching Research with Fluidity

McArdle, Rachel

doi:10.1080/00330124.2021.2023593

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“…It emphasises our flexible approach, where participants could take greater autonomy over their data by choosing a balance between words and images. This aligns with calls for flexible methodologies that do not see research as linear but as uncertain and changeable (McArdle, 2022). While flexibility was our intention, it was not made as explicit to the participants as it could have been.…”

Section: Expressing Emotion With Graphic Elicitationmentioning

confidence: 79%

Remote graphic elicitation: A critical reflection on the emotional affordance and disruption management in caregiver research

Lowe

Osborne

Bell

2022

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Graphic elicitation, an arts-based method that focuses on participant-led drawing activities, is often conducted with the researcher in situ and discussed in an interview setting, either during or after drawing. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns have meant that using graphic elicitation in its current form required a re-evaluation. Reflecting on a research project that undertook graphic elicitation remotely, this paper considers the emotional affordance and disruption management of the method in caregiver research. While informal caregiving may be an emotionally fraught topic for the participants, we demonstrate how graphic elicitation explores emotions and experiences with sensitivity and care. Furthermore, we show that graphic elicitation enabled us to acknowledge the pandemic but maintain focus on caregiving itself. The caregivers were responsive to the method and found it rewarding and insightful, albeit with some initial hesitancy and ingrained perceptions of arts-based outputs. Through our discussions, we show the potential for remote graphic elicitation in geography as a method to explore potentially sensitive, emotionally charged topics like caregiving.

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Remote graphic elicitation: A critical reflection on the emotional affordance and disruption management in caregiver research

Lowe

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Bell

2022

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“…Analogous to Ian Russell’s (2022) notion of “mid-range ethics,” ground to cloud provides a guide for reflexively navigating between abstract principles, on one hand, and the specific techniques and often unanticipated choices faced in the field, on the other hand. As such, it should be adapted to sites and circumstances and over time, as a component of and potential starting point for what Rachel McArdle (2022) terms, “flexible methodologies.”…”

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From ground to cloud: Navigating research in digital geographies

Faxon

2024

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The proliferation of screens, satellites, and sensors presents new methodological challenges and possibilities for geography. This article provides a heuristic to guide empirical research that engages combinations of digital and material topics and tools. Analytically separating objects of analysis and methods of inquiry and locating them “on the ground” and “in the cloud” enables researchers to chart a pathway through complex digital geographies and research processes. Drawing on my own research in Myanmar farmers’ fields and Facebook groups, I demonstrate how iteratively combining in situ and digital ethnography, social media analysis, and interviews enabled me to understand agrarian and technological change, formulate new research questions, and adapt to acute constraints. As a strategy within growing methodologies for digital geography, moving from ground to cloud and back is a device for navigating empirical research that relies on an ethos of experimentation and an ethic of care.

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Navigating research ethics during COVID-19 in authoritarian Southeast Asia: a feminist approach to combining online and in-person qualitative methods

Fung

2024

Australian Geographer

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Flexible Methodologies: A Case for Approaching Research with Fluidity

Cited by 6 publications

References 46 publications

Remote graphic elicitation: A critical reflection on the emotional affordance and disruption management in caregiver research

Remote graphic elicitation: A critical reflection on the emotional affordance and disruption management in caregiver research

From ground to cloud: Navigating research in digital geographies

Navigating research ethics during COVID-19 in authoritarian Southeast Asia: a feminist approach to combining online and in-person qualitative methods

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