My eyes got a bit watery there: using stories to explore emotions in coaching research and practice for injured, sick and wounded military personnel

“A Common Danger Unites”: Reflecting on Lecturers’ Higher Education Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic Using an Ethnographic Fictional Analysis

“…We chose to represent these experiences using an ethnographic fiction for numerous reasons. First, ethnographic fictions can provide a rich insight into the complexity and ambiguity of lived experiences from a unique perspective [66,108]. Using a conversational dialogue in our story, we were able to simultaneously showcase different perceptions and experiences of working from home during the pandemic.…”

“…Using a conversational dialogue in our story, we were able to simultaneously showcase different perceptions and experiences of working from home during the pandemic. Second, the accessible, colloquial language used within ethnographic fictions enables information to be presented in an understandable and engaging way for wider audiences [66,92,109,110]. Third, due to the fear and uncertainty associated with the lack of job security for academics working within the Higher Education sector [6], we felt it was important to provide a means through which individuals would feel safe to voice their experiences.…”

“…We used a storytelling approach [65] to represent the challenges academics working in Higher Education experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. We view this approach of data representation to be positioned within a broader narrative-inquiry framework in which stories are valued for their ability to coherently capture, represent, and make sense of our own and other people's experiences of, and meanings ascribed to, life events [66][67][68]. This approach aligns with our constructionist epistemology because stories enable people to create and communicate meanings to make sense of their lived experiences [69].…”