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"With us and about us": Participatory methods in research with "vulnerable" or marginalized groups.

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posted on 2017-09-22, 10:29 authored by Jo Aldridge
In much health and social scientific research that includes “vulnerable,” “hard-to-reach” or marginalized groups, claims are often made about participatory methods and techniques that enhance participant engagement and “voice.” In many cases, however, the validity of these claims remains unclear – the nature and extent of participant involvement in such studies is not always defined and the value and efficacy, as well as the challenges, of using participatory methods are often misunderstood. In many respects, these oversights can be explained by the lack of cognate and applicable participatory models or frameworks that can help researchers work more effectively with marginalized participants. This chapter explores these issues drawing on the author’s own extensive research with marginalized groups and participatory models of working that both promote and enhance participant engagement and emancipation in research processes. Such approaches see “vulnerable,” marginalized, or socially excluded research participants in transformative roles in research, including as co-researchers, co-analysts, and designers and producers of their own research agendas and projects.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

Handbook of Research Methods in Health and Social Sciences

Pages

1 - 16 (17)

Citation

ALDRIDGE, J., 2017. "With us and about us": Participatory methods in research with "vulnerable" or marginalized groups. IN: Liamputtong, P. (ed.) Handbook of Research Methods in Health and Social Sciences, Singapore: Springer, pp. 1-16.

Publisher

Springer

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-08-15

Publication date

2017-08-19

Notes

This book chapter is in closed access.

ISBN

9789811027796

Language

  • en