Reflexivity and Researcher
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Corlett, Sandra; Mavin, Sharon

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“…This research approach recognizes that knowledge is subjective (Love et al, 2020). As a result, the researchers must use reflexivity throughout the study (Corlett & Mavin, 2018). Reflexivity enables the research team to consider how subjective elements of their worldview can influence the research process (Corlett & Mavin, 2018).…”

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“…As a result, the researchers must use reflexivity throughout the study (Corlett & Mavin, 2018). Reflexivity enables the research team to consider how subjective elements of their worldview can influence the research process (Corlett & Mavin, 2018). This process is especially crucial because researchers cannot entirely disconnect their personal experiences and biases from the research (Johnson-Bailey & Ray, 2008).…”

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Exploring the Impact of Home-Schooling on the Psychological Wellbeing of Irish Families During the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Qualitative Study Protocol

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International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has placed severe restrictions on people’s behavior worldwide with school closures in many countries. These closures have shifted education from the classroom to the home. This change is unprecedented, and home-schooling has placed substantial stress on families across the world. As of 9 April 2020, 1.57 billion children were being educated by families that had little or no experience of protracted home-schooling. An essential but neglected issue related to COVID-19 is the psychological impact of home-schooling on family wellbeing, especially considering the other stressors they are experiencing including social isolation, fears of infection, frustration, boredom, inadequate information, and financial stress. This study explores the impact of home-schooling on family psychological wellbeing during COVID-19. These findings will help develop supports and interventions for this population. Methods: An exploratory qualitative study will be conducted using semi-structured interviews with a convenience sample of families (at least one parent and one child). Participants will be recruited using social media outlets, contacts of academic members and snowball sampling. Interviews will take place using Microsoft Teams and via telephone and recorded for transcription purposes. These transcripts will be analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Ethical approval has been granted by the Social Research Ethics Subcommittee (SRESC) Maynooth University (2407411). The Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has funded the research with the COVID-19 rapid response grant. The dissemination of findings will be through open access journal publications, distribution of lay summaries, press release and policy papers. Discussion: The research findings will discuss the impact that home-schooling has had on family psychological wellbeing. It will examine how parents are managing their children’s education and learning while handling the other stresses associated with COVID-19. A deeper understanding of the impact of school closures and home-schooling on family processes is essential if the psychological wellbeing of families is to be protected and supported during challenging times such as health-related disasters.

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Exploring the Impact of Home-Schooling on the Psychological Wellbeing of Irish Families During the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Qualitative Study Protocol

O’Sullivan

McGrane

Clark

et al. 2020

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…As a qualitative study, the researchers' role in designing a research process that identifies and explores knowledge gaps cannot be over-emphasized (Corlett and Mavin, 2018). The researchers' own experience of researching and working within the hospitality industry and other organizations has been instrumental in unearthing the research issue, development of the research instrument and the management of the interview process, where probes, prompts and follow-up questions were used to explore enablers of participants' career advancement.…”

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Career Advancement for Women in the British Hospitality Industry: The Enabling Factors

Calinaud

Kokkranikal

Gebbels

2020

Work, Employment and Society

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Women are historically under-represented in senior management positions in almost all industries. Despite the UK hospitality industry being a major employer of women, there is a clear lack of women in management positions. This research aims to gain insight into the factors enabling women to access senior positions in the UK hospitality industry. Using the gendered organizations perspective, the study analyses female managers’ perceptions about their career advancement within this sector. It identifies key enablers and strategies to facilitate women’s career advancement. The findings reveal that despite improvements in career opportunities for women within the UK hospitality organizations, there is still a long way to go in terms of employment policies and practices that enable women’s career progression, which includes family-friendly practices; proactive and transparent gender equality measures; support networks and mentors; and personal development plan.

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“…While the aims and implications of reflexivity differ depending on researchers' paradigmatic assumptions, it allows all researchers an opportunity to think seriously about our research practice. This allows us to go beyond surface analyses (Corlett and Mavin, 2018) and enables judgements of quality consistent with the paradigmatic position of our research (Johnson, 2015).…”

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Insider status: (Re)framing researcher positionality in international human resource management studies

Collins

McNulty

2020

German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Pe

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Insider researchers in international human resource management study not only the organisations or communities they may be members of, but also the people they perceive closeness with or with whom they share identities. The research context for insiders is rich but rarely problem-free. The uncertainty and dynamism of insider research often leaves insider researchers grappling with methodological and ethical challenges, but with no explicit framework to guide how they can be addressed in research practice or research reporting. Indeed, the ‘sanitised’ methodologies appearing in published work often do not reflect the complexity of the authors’ experience. In this article, we call for researchers to give more explicit consideration of what it means to research from an insider position, regardless of the research paradigm from which they work. The article addresses some of the messy details of insider research, drawing on personal accounts of our own research practice. We offer a framework of researcher personae as a tool for reflecting upon researchers’ insider positionality before, during and after data have been collected and analysed. Overall, we encourage researchers working from insider positions to adopt three practices: (1) to engage in reflexive consideration of the effects of (changing) positionality on their work as a way to strengthen the ethical and theoretical outcomes of research practice; (2) to acknowledge and leverage, rather than conceal, insiderness as a key strategy for making feasible more research on sensitive and ‘taboo’ topics; and (3) to make positionality explicit in research reporting in order to enhance the quality of insider research as well as enhance fieldwork learning more generally in the international human resource management field. While the personal accounts we share in this article are based on our research within the field of international human resource management, the intention is that it may also be of value to researchers in other fields.

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Reflexivity and Researcher Positionality

Cited by 87 publications

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Exploring the Impact of Home-Schooling on the Psychological Wellbeing of Irish Families During the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Qualitative Study Protocol

Exploring the Impact of Home-Schooling on the Psychological Wellbeing of Irish Families During the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Qualitative Study Protocol

Career Advancement for Women in the British Hospitality Industry: The Enabling Factors

Insider status: (Re)framing researcher positionality in international human resource management studies

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