Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why

This is a reflexive account of the messiness experienced by a Persian-Australian doctoral researcher interviewing social work and human service practitioners and people seeking asylum in Germany. This data collection was part of a cross-national comparative study of the impacts of policy on the expe...

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Main Authors: Field, Rebecca, Barns, Angela, Chung, Donna, Fleay, Caroline
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2021
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/87646
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description This is a reflexive account of the messiness experienced by a Persian-Australian doctoral researcher interviewing social work and human service practitioners and people seeking asylum in Germany. This data collection was part of a cross-national comparative study of the impacts of policy on the experiences and perceptions of people seeking asylum and social work and human service practitioners in Bavaria and Western Australia. Through interview stories and the work of others, this article offers a first person account of the complexities, ambiguities and dilemmas that can occur before, during and after data collection, how these were navigated through the use of Finlay's (2012) five lenses for the reflexive interviewer, and some of the lessons learnt.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-876462022-03-03T02:41:19Z Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why Field, Rebecca Barns, Angela Chung, Donna Fleay, Caroline This is a reflexive account of the messiness experienced by a Persian-Australian doctoral researcher interviewing social work and human service practitioners and people seeking asylum in Germany. This data collection was part of a cross-national comparative study of the impacts of policy on the experiences and perceptions of people seeking asylum and social work and human service practitioners in Bavaria and Western Australia. Through interview stories and the work of others, this article offers a first person account of the complexities, ambiguities and dilemmas that can occur before, during and after data collection, how these were navigated through the use of Finlay's (2012) five lenses for the reflexive interviewer, and some of the lessons learnt. 2021 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/87646 10.1177/14733250211043196 restricted
spellingShingle Field, Rebecca
Barns, Angela
Chung, Donna
Fleay, Caroline
Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why
title Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why
title_full Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why
title_fullStr Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why
title_full_unstemmed Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why
title_short Messiness in international qualitative interviewing: What I did, what I didn’t do, and a little bit about why
title_sort messiness in international qualitative interviewing: what i did, what i didn’t do, and a little bit about why
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/87646