How can a researcher conduct a research study abroad? How can they build a research team abroad?
How can a researcher conduct a research study abroad? How can they build a research team abroad?
In this Module, students will examine the use of qualitative research methods in an international setting. Qualitative research utilizes non-numerical data to analyze different concepts and experiences. As students will learn, researchers should become familiar with a country’s research rules, regulations, procedures and governmental structure and processes before starting their research project. This module’s articles examine the strategies, challenges, procedures, and ethical issues of conducting international qualitative research.
You will learn about specific research designs such as grounded theory approach, ethnography and case study. The articles include different research methods such as interviews, focus groups, and observations. The readings discuss obtaining permissions, informed consents with assurance of confidentiality and collecting the data despite cultural differences and language barriers.
The articles discuss the processes and roadblocks to obtaining ethics approval and various permissions in different countries. The presence of different actors such as key informants, interpreters, government officials, and host organizations are explained. Researchers recruit participants through email, telephone, social media, newspaper articles, and so on. It is important to consider cultural appropriateness when establishing research methods, such as interview questions. These studies have used different sampling methods, such as purposive and snowball sampling.
Module 7: Discussion
Write an answer to one of the questions in the Discussion Forum. Your post should be between 400 – 500 words.
- Based on the articles define and explain two different research designs (ethnography, narrative study, grounded theory approach or case study). What are the strengths and what are the limitations of selected designs? Provide examples of studies or topics.
- How can a researcher conduct a research study abroad? How can they build a research team abroad? How would they seek out and recruit interpreters? What are a few ways researchers can benefit from having local/native interpreters?
- Discuss ethical considerations in qualitative research. Address specific ethical concerns of various research strategies and/or researched types of crimes. What can researchers do when they cannot get ethics approval or confirmation that it is not needed? How might a researcher ensure anonymity and confidentiality in various settings? Illustrate with examples.
- Address challenges in conducting qualitative research such as risk and danger in conducting fieldwork, multicultural and multilingual setting and limited resources. Provide examples from the articles.
- What are the benefits and what are the limitations of conducting field research? Give specific examples from the course readings.
- Discuss what you learn about interviewing in the multicultural and multilingual setting. Address the ethical consideration, the formal of the interview, cultural sensitivity, translation, sampling etc.
Required Readings
- Griffin, G., and Leibetseder, D. (2019). “Only applies to research conducted in Sweden…” Dilemmas in gaining ethics approval in transnational qualitative research.
- “Only applies to research conducted in Sweden…” Dilemmas in gaining ethics approval in transnational qualitative research. – Alternative Formats
International Journal of Qualitative Methods 18, 1-10.- Beckett, G.H., and Kobayashi, M. (2020). A Meta-study of an ethnographic research in a multicultural and multilingual community: Negotiations, resources, and dilemmas.
- A Meta-study of an ethnographic research in a multicultural and multilingual community: Negotiations, resources, and dilemmas. – Alternative Formats
- American Journal of Qualitative Research.4, 1, 85-106
- Pinto da Costa, M. (2021). Conducting cross-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-country focus groups: Guidance for researchers.
- Conducting cross-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-country focus groups: Guidance for researchers. – Alternative Formats
- International Journal of Qualitative Methods 20, 1–6.
- Nayar, S., and Wright St.Clair, V. (2020). Multiple cultures – one process: Undertaking a cross cultural grounded theory study.
- Multiple cultures – one process: Undertaking a cross cultural grounded theory study. – Alternative Formats
- American Journal of Qualitative Research 4, 3, 131-145 https://doi.org/10.29333/ajqr/9310
- Blake, D.K. (2020).
Researching violence:Conducting risky fieldwork in dangerous spaces across Latin America and the Caribbean - Researching violence:Conducting risky fieldwork in dangerous spaces across Latin America and the Caribbean – Alternative Formats
- Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research 14, 153–169.
- Harris, A.J., Feathers, C. E., and Musgrave, J. (2021).
The relationship of openness. difference, and solidarity to cultural integration amid cultural fluidity: A grounded theory approach. - The relationship of openness. difference, and solidarity to cultural integration amid cultural fluidity: A grounded theory approach. – Alternative Formats
- Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research 15, 245–263.
- Chowdhury, A., and Shil, N. Ch. (2021). Thinking ‘Qualitative’ through a case study: Homework for a researcher.
- Thinking ‘Qualitative’ through a case study: Homework for a researcher. – Alternative Formats
- American Journal of Qualitative Research 5, 2, 190-210.
- Greenspan, S.B., Gordon, K.L., Whitcomb, S.A., and Lauterbach, A.A. (2021). Use of video conferencing to facilitate focus groups for qualitative data collection.
- Use of video conferencing to facilitate focus groups for qualitative data collection. – Alternative Formats
- American Journal of Qualitative Research 5, 1, 85-93.
- Lukenchuk. A. (2021).
Against all odds: Reflections on violence and civility through personal narratives of Ukrainian students. - Against all odds: Reflections on violence and civility through personal narratives of Ukrainian students. – Alternative Formats
- Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research 15, 284–299.
- Askanius, T. (2019). Studying the Nordic Resistance Movement: Three urgent questions for researchers of contemporary neo-Nazis and their media practices.
- Studying the Nordic Resistance Movement: Three urgent questions for researchers of contemporary neo-Nazis and their media practices. – Alternative Formats
- . Media, Culture & Society 41, 6, 878–888.
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