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Working with vulnerable groups in social research: dilemmas by default and design

journal contribution
posted on 2020-12-04, 11:43 authored by Jo Aldridge
Tensions have been highlighted, particularly in disability rights research and activism discourses, between the demands of the academy, the needs of vulnerable research participants as active contributors in research and between researchers themselves who are often caught in multiple dilemmas regarding these conflicting demands. This is particularly the case in research governance and practice terms when ‘top down’ pressures (e.g. from the academy, from funders) are often at odds with the need for a ‘bottom up’ approach to vulnerable research participants who often require adaptive, more inclusive and sometimes individualistic (case-by-case) qualitative methodological approaches. These issues are the focus of this article, which draws specifically on evidence from participatory studies with vulnerable groups and participatory photographic studies, in particular, to demonstrate the need for more collaborative and democratic approaches to research praxis.

History

School

  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Department

  • Social and Policy Studies

Published in

Qualitative Research

Volume

14

Issue

1

Pages

112 - 130

Citation

ALDRIDGE, J., 2014. Working with vulnerable groups in social research: dilemmas by default and design. Qualitative Research, 14(1), pp. 112-130.

Publisher

Sage Publications © the author

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Acceptance date

2012-05-02

Publication date

2012-08-22

Notes

This article is closed access, it was published in the journal Qualitative Research [Sage Publications © the author]. The definitive version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794112455041

ISSN

1468-7941

Language

  • en