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Methodological Innovations in Qualitative Longitudinal Research
Liam Berriman, Claude Jousselin, Ester McGeeney, Rachel Thomson, Susie Weller.
Session overview
1) New frontiers in QLR: Cultivating a QLR sensibility
2) Face 2 face: tracing the real and mediated in children's cultural worlds
3) The potential of video telephony in qualitative longitudinal research: a participatory and interactionist approach to assessing remoteness and rapport
New Frontiers in Qualitative Longitudinal Research: cultivating a QLR sensibility
Rachel Thomson, Ester McGeeney, Claude Jousselin
University of Sussex and Goldsmith College, University of London
QLR 2000 – 2015: A generation of methodological development
• 2000 - emergence of a new methodological paradigm bringing together distinct disciplinary traditions
• A new turn to time? Renewed interest in theory and methods of processes, intergenerationality, change and continuity.
• QLR as focus for interdisciplinary collaborations: Timescapes; Real Times; Step Change; Young Lives; Social Life of Methods; Oliver Schreiner; Temporal Belonging
• QLR as barometer of the new: digital time; the value of data; co-production; anonymity; ownership; performativity of methods ‘impact’ and ‘practice’.
• 2015 - New Frontiers in QLR
The New Frontiers in QLR seminar series
Event 1: Interdisciplinary perspectives on continuity and change: what counts as QLR?
Event 2: Research relationships in time
Event 3: (Re)conceptualising the object of QLR: duration and seriality
Event 4: QLR and practice traditions
Event 5: The child in time: animating ideas of development and transition
www.sussex.ac.uk/esw/circy/research/completedresearch/newfrontiers
Future directions:
• Big data/ deep data
• The particular and the general
• Beyond annonymity
• Privileging here and now
• A QLR sensibility
Cultivating a QLR sensibility
‘[We came to understand QLR] as a sensibility, a mindset, an orientation, a foregrounding of
temporality, an inspiration to remain alert to time and temporality in our research.’ (Walker 2013).
A QLR detour during fieldwork
• PhD research aimed at following the diagnostic process of adult ADHD in the UK
• 12 months fieldwork – Specialist clinic– 4 support groups in 4 cities
• Temporality and ADHD– Retrospective diagnosis– Lived experience of time
• New Frontiers in QLR – Time as dynamic and process of change
QLR detour
• Seminar inspirations– Unit of analysis: from individual to group– Extend data: broadening temporal scope
• New questions– How do participants’ concerns change over time? – When did change occur? Are there any turning points?– What would the concept of duration highlight in the social
life of support group? – How different have the support groups become in this last
five years, and what would that say about the place of ADHD in the UK?
QLR detour
• Unexpected outcome– Report for patient organisation http
://aadduk.org/library/articles/
• QLR in the PhD research context– Adaptability– Temporal Orientation
Cultivating a QLR sensibility
How do the following three concepts relate to your current (or most recent) research project?
Research time Analytic time Biographical time
Resources
The New Frontiers in QLR website
www.sussex.ac.uk/esw/circy/research/completedresearch/newfrontiers
Final report: New Frontiers in QLR: definition, design and display
http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/3297/
Working Paper Series: New Frontiers in Qualitative Longitudinal Research: Perspectives of Doctoral and Early Career
Researchers.
http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/3353/.
