Hopkins, P., Pande, R., Ali, N. et al. (2 more authors) (2022) Working with community interviewers in social and cultural research. Area (54). 3. pp. 400-407. ISSN 0004-0894
Abstract
Working with community or peer interviewers can provide valuable access to the lived experiences of individuals and communities who researchers are unlikely to reach. However, the ethical and methodological issues involved in working with community interviewers has received relatively little attention in social and cultural geographical research. In this paper, we reflect on our work with community interviewers in qualitative research about the sexual relationship practices of young British Pakistani Muslims. We outline the training we offered to them and consider several ethical and methodological issues, including issues of power and positionality, the politics or remuneration, providing feedback to community interviewers, issues of mental health and wellbeing, and addressing expectations and community relationships. We explore the benefits of working with community interviewers while also highlighting the ethical and political challenges associated with such work.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. Area published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | community interviewers; Muslims; peer researchers; relationships; research ethics; UK |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2022 14:13 |
Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2023 15:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/area.12789 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:184701 |