Qualitative and Digital Research in Times of Crisis

Helen Kara has been an independent researcher since 1999 and specialises in creative research methods and ethics. Su-ming Khoo is Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She specialises in critical development studies, human rights, higher education and decolonial and transdisciplinary approaches.

Introduction - Su-ming Khoo and Helen Kara


Part 1: Reflexivity and ethics


1. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should - Ali FitzGibbon


2. Ethnography in crisis: methodology in the cracks - Zania Koppe


3. Phenomenology of lived experience: multilayered approach and positionality - Bibek Dahal


Part 2: Arts-based approaches


4. The arts of making-sense in uncertain times: arts-based research and autoethnography - Deborah Green, Amanda Levey, Bettina Evans,


Wendy Lawson, and Kathrin Marks


5. Practice-based research in times of crisis: weaving community together during lockdown - Gretchen Stolte and Lisa Oliver


6. Communicating crisis research with comics: representation, process, and pedagogy - Gemma Sou and Sarah Marie Hall


Part 3: Digital methods


7. Developing a Collaborative AutoNetnographic approach to researching doctoral students’ online experiences - Richard McGrath, Holly Bowen-Salter, Emma Milanese, and Phoebe Pearce


8. The ethical implications of using digital traces: studying explainability and trust during a pandemic - Natasha Dwyer, Hector Miller-Bakewell, Tessa Darbyshire, Anirban Basu, and Steve Marsh


9. The use of objects to enhance online social research interviews - Maged Zakher and Hoda Wassif


10. Qualitative data re-use and secondary analysis: researching in and about a crisis - Anna Tarrant and Kahryn Hughes


11. Researching older Vietnam- born migrants at a distance: the role of digital kinning - Hien Thi Nguyen, Loretta Baldassar, Raelene Wilding, and Lukasz Krzyzowski


Part 4: Recurring and longer-term crises


12. A timed crisis: Australian education, migrant Asian teachers, and critical autoethnography - Aaron Teo


13. Building relationships and praxis despite persistent obstacles - Maria Grazia Imperiale


14. Managing ethical tensions when conducting research in fragile and conflict-affected contexts - Gbenga Akinlolu Shadare


15. Beyond extraction: co-creating a decolonial and feminist research practice in post-conflict Guatemala - Aisling Walsh


Conclusion - Helen Kara and Su-ming Khoo