Hughes, K orcid.org/0000-0002-5711-0353, Frank, VA, Herold, MD et al. (1 more author) (2023) Data reuse across international contexts? Reflections on new methods for International Qualitative Secondary Analysis. Qualitative Research, 23 (4). pp. 1155-1168. ISSN 1468-7941
Abstract
This research note reports on five online workshops by an international team of scholars, the authors, with shared interests in drug (mis)use. The workshops comprise a novel form of collective international qualitative secondary analysis (iQSA) exploring the possibilities for, and value of, qualitative data reuse across international contexts. These preparatory workshops comprise the preliminary stages of a longer programme of methodological development of iQSA, and we used them to identify what challenges there may be for translating evidence across international contexts, what strategies might be best placed to support or facilitate analytical engagement in this direction, and if possible, what empirical value such exchange might have. We discuss how working across international contexts involved the authors in new 'translational' work to address the challenges of establishing and sharing meaning. Such ‘translation’ entailed a modest degree of empirical engagement, namely, the casing of empirical examples from our datasets that supported an articulation of our various research studies, a collective interrogation of how, why and which such cases could be used for best translational effect and a collective reflexive engagement with how these cases generated new and novel questions that in turn re-engaged us with our own data in new ways. Descriptions of our datasets, therefore, emerged as multifaceted assemblages of ‘expertise’ and comprised the evidential bases for new empirical insights, research questions and directions.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2021. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
Keywords: | Collective analysis workshops, comparative international research, international qualitative secondary analysis, drug (mis)use, epistemic translation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2021 14:43 |
Last Modified: | 29 Oct 2024 13:57 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/14687941211052278 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:178247 |