Collective Reflexivity

Researchers in Play

Bibliographic Data

ID12733259
AuthorsChez Leggatt‐cook (0000-0002-9746-7752, Massey University), Joanna Sheridan (Massey University), Helen Madden (Massey University), Tiffany Cain (0000-0001-6286-2982, Massey University), Ros Munro (Massey University), Siu-Chun Tse (Massey University), Hyunok Jeon (Massey University), Kerry Chamberlain (0000-0002-1011-4293, Massey University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume8
Issue3
Pages223-246
Publication date2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Research in Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1478-0887 • E-ISSN: 1478-0895
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14780880903370064
OpenAlexW1484817783
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited46

The Albany Memory Work Collective emerged from discussions amongst the members of the Albany Discourse and Narrative Group, a group of postgraduate scholars and staff who meet regularly to discuss research issues. The authors of this paper were a sub-group of this larger group. Our intent was to explore memory work as a methodology, to use the method as a means of exploring the varieties and complexities of our relationships with participants in our research, and perchance to write a paper for publication from the exercise. Although a memory work project on this topic was initiated, and our written memories were a starting place, our attentions moved more directly onto discussions of the nature of the researcher-participant relationship and what this implied for our practices and understandings as researchers. In attempting to adequately represent this process and the ideas and insights that arose from it, we took up the concept of the play as a form of (re)presentation. This would allow us to do things you cannot do and say things you cannot say in a regular academic paper. The outcome is presented here. This product is meant for educational purposes only, and any resemblance of characters in the play to real people, living or dead, and especially to the authors, is unintentional and purely coincidental. We are grateful to Niamh Stephenson and Sue Kippax whose chapter on memory work started all this, to Wendy Stainton Rogers for suggestions on an earlier draft, and to two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Jack S. Hatcher is a meta-researcher ghost haunting Chez Leggatt-Cook, Joanna Sheridan, Helen Madden, Trudie Cain, Ros Munro, Siu-Chun Tse, Hyunok Jeon, and Kerry Chamberlain in the School of Psychology at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand

Collective memory · Epistemology · Linguistics · Memory work · Narrative · Political science · Presentation (obstetrics · Product (mathematics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Data Analysis and Archiving · Medicine · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology