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Issues of representation within qualitative inquiry.

Stefanos Mantzoukas1

  • 1Institute of Human and Health Sciences, Thames Valley University, London.

Qualitative Health Research
|August 7, 2004
PubMed
Summary

Researcher presence in qualitative health research is unavoidable. Conventional practices often exclude the researcher, but this is a matter of paradigmatic consensus, not a research necessity.

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Area of Science:

  • Health Sciences Research
  • Qualitative Inquiry Methodologies

Background:

  • Qualitative inquiry is widely used in health sciences.
  • Limited literature addresses participant representation in qualitative studies.
  • Conventional assumption: researcher presence should be excluded for objectivity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the representation of the researcher in qualitative health research.
  • To argue that researcher presence is inherent in qualitative inquiry.
  • To explore the link between representation and researcher's philosophical assumptions.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of qualitative research conventions.
  • Argumentative approach based on philosophical underpinnings of qualitative research.

Main Results:

  • Researcher representation in qualitative inquiry is inevitable.
  • Exclusion of the researcher is a conventional, not essential, practice.
  • A correlation exists between representation issues and researcher's epistemology and ontology.

Conclusions:

  • The exclusion of researchers from qualitative texts is a convention, not a requirement.
  • Researcher's epistemological and ontological stances influence representation.
  • Rethinking researcher presence is crucial for understanding qualitative inquiry in health sciences.

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