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Unprepared for the worst: risks of harm for qualitative researchers

Bloor, Michael John, Fincham, Ben and Sampson, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5857-9452 2010. Unprepared for the worst: risks of harm for qualitative researchers. Methodological Innovations Online 5 (1) , pp. 45-55. 10.4256/mio.2010.0009

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Abstract

This paper draws on the results of an Inquiry, commissioned by Qualiti (Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Innovation, Integration and Impact), a node of ESRC‟s National Centre for Research Methods, into the physical and emotional harm suffered by qualitative social researchers. It argues that junior researchers and PhD students, the main recipients of such harm, are being let down by some principal investigators and PhD supervisors who are failing to manage researcher risks effectively. This record of the universities in researcher risk management compares poorly with the management of risks in cognate organisations, such as the management of risks to journalists in media organisations and of risks to fieldworkers in aid agencies. This deficiency in university risk management is arguably a matter of culture rather than deficient structures: an analogy is drawn with Mary Douglas‟s work on different cultural orientations to risk.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC)
Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Risk; Occupational health and safety; Qualitative research; Risk management; Risk behaviour
Publisher: University of Plymouth
ISSN: 1748-0612
Last Modified: 20 Oct 2022 08:12
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/27600

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