Brendan Gough & Linda Finlay 
Reflexivity 
A Practical Guide for Researchers in Health and Social Sciences

Reflexivity is a popular tool used to analyse personal,
intersubjective and social processes which shape research projects.
It enables researchers, particularly within the qualitative
tradition, to acknowledge their role and the situated nature of
their research. In the current climate, which sees the popularity
of qualitative methods coupled with increased public and
professional scrutiny of research, reflexivity provides a means of
bolstering greater transparency and quality in research.

This book recognises the considerable value of reflexivity to
researchers, and provides a means to navigate this field. The book
is foremost a practical guide which examines reflexivity at
different stages of the research process. The editors and
contributors offer candid approaches to the subject, which supply
readers with diverse strategies on how to do reflexivity in
practice.

Features

* Provides an accessible, practical guide to reflexive research
processes, methods and outcomes

* Encompasses both the health and social science fields

* Includes contributions from international researchers

The book is aimed at postgraduate and final year students of
health and social sciences. Interested clinicians will also find
useful insights in the text.

विषयसूची

Contributors.

Prologue.

Part I: Introducing Reflexivity.

Introduction;.

Chapter 1. The reflexive journey, mapping by multiple
routes;.

Chapter 2. Deconstructing reflexivity;.

Part II: Personal Reflexivity.

Introduction;.

Chapter 3. Necessary subjectivity: exploiting researcher’s
motives, passions and prejudices in pursuit of answering the ‘true’
questions;.

Chapter 4. Three journeys towards reflexivity;.

Chapter 5. Navigating multiple research identities: reflexivity
in discourse analytic research;.

Chapter 6. Doing reflexivities? Dilemmas in devloping a
critically reflexive position using discourse analysis;.

Chapter 7. Reflexivity as presence: a journey of
self-inquiry;.

Part III: Reflexivity Within Relationships.

Introduction.

Chapter 8. Through the looking glass: inter-subjectivity and
hermeneutic reflection;.

Chapter 9. Analysing the interviewer: the joint construction of
accounts of psychotic experience;.

Chapter 10. Reflexivity, ‘bias’ and the in-depth interview:
developing shared meanings;.

Chapter 11. Shifting researcher positions during a group
interview study: a reflexive analysis and review;.

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Part IV: Reflexivity Through Collaboration.

Introduction.

Chapter 12. Doing reflexivity: a collaborative, narrative
approach;.

Chapter 13. Shifting identities: the negotiation of meanings
between texts and between persons;.

Chapter 14. Researcher as storyteller and performer: parallels
with playback theatre;.

Chapter 15. Using reflexivity to looses theoretical and
organisational knots within participatory action research;.

Chapter 16. Holding up the mirror to widen the view: multiple
subjectivities in the reflexive team;.

Epilogue.

Chapter 17: The next turn: reflexively analysing reflexive
research;.

Index

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Linda Finlay teaches Psychology with the Open University, UK, and is an Academic Consultant offering training and mentorship on qualitative research in health care. She is currently working towards registration as an Integrative psychotherapist. She has published widely on topics relating to psychosocial occupational therapy, group work and qualitative research.

Brendan Gough is a Critical Social Psychologist and qualitative researcher. He is also the co-founder and co-editor of the journal, Qualitative Research in Psychology. He was awarded a fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2016.