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Title: Best foot forward, watching your step, jumping in with both feet, or sticking your foot in it? The politics of researching academic viewpoints
Related: Qualitative research journal, Vol. 11, No. 2, (2011), p.48-62
DOI: 10.3316/QRJ1102048
Publisher: RMIT Publishing
Date: 2011
Author/Creator: Saltmarsh, Sue
Author/Creator: Sutherland-Smith, Wendy
Author/Creator: Randell-Moon, Holly
Description: This article presents our experiences of conducting research interviews with Australian academics, in order to reflect on the politics of researcher and participant positionality. In particular, we are interested in the ways that academic networks, hierarchies and cultures, together with mobility in the higher education sector, contribute to a complex discursive terrain in which researchers and participants alike must maintain vigilance about where they 'put their feet' in research interviews. We consider the implications for higher education research, arguing that the positionality of researchers and participants pervades and exceeds these specialised research situations.
Description: 15 page(s)
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies

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