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Booming clangs and whispering ghosts: attending to the reflexive echoes in IPA research
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posted on 2023-08-30, 15:39 authored by Sally Goldspink, Hilary EngwardIn this paper, we propose that reflexivity can be revealed through a deliberate adjunct to the IPA process. This adjunct, which we refer to as ‘echoes’, is a mixture of the participant’s and researcher’s words and experiences resonating with each other during the research process. We argue that explicitly recognising echoes gives a heightened sensitivity to both the researcher’s own place and being in the research, and to the other in relation to the researcher. Exploring the echoes enables the researcher to work with, rather than dismiss, their own presuppositions and exposes greater phenomenological sensibility toward the research subject and is-ness of that phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is thus to outline how attending to echoes is a strategy for IPA researchers to promote, and overtly journal, reflexivity as central within their research practices. To exemplify how echoes can be used, practical examples from a doctoral research project are given to demonstrate how resonance can explicate reflexivity in the IPA process.
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16Issue number
2Page range
291-304Publication title
Qualitative Research in PsychologyISSN
1478-0895External DOI
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Taylor & FrancisFile version
- Accepted version
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- eng
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2018-09-25Legacy creation date
2018-09-25Legacy Faculty/School/Department
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