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Imagine you have two months to complete a systematic review on an unfamiliar topic. Faced with the possibility of identifying more relevant papers than you could …
Should qualitative researchers be using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)? Recently, more than 400 internationally renowned qualitative researchers co-signed a commentary rejecting GenAI for reflexive qualitative …
Wales is a bilingual nation. Around a fifth of school-aged children attend Welsh-medium education, achieving fluency levels that equip them to live and work in a …
As a part of the Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Cultures (WAARC) project at the University of Sheffield, we have been exploring ways of making research more …
Embodied knowing is transdisciplinary. Although we might identify its roots in phenomenology, it has been identified in fields as diverse as anthropology, business studies, computing, cognitive …
There’s a well-known saying in data science: “garbage in, garbage out”. It’s a blunt but accurate reminder that poor-quality data leads to poor-quality results, no matter …
As a breeze stirs, flowers bloom and birds sing, with a good mood, do you feel like scrolling through your phone to admire the latest snapshots …
Our new book, Qualitative Diary Methods, recently published by SAGE, grew out of years of working with – and trying to make sense of – …