Rosaline S Barbour
Biographic Data
| ID | 108092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosaline S Barbour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosaline S |
| FAMILY NAME | Barbour |
| SIGNATURE | BARBOUR R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dundee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 287 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Some Methodological Insights from a Reflexive “Insider” Ethnography of Shiatsu Practice
Presented as a collaborative reflexive account, this article has evolved through a series of discussions between the first author—who carried out an “insider” ethnography of Shiatsu practice—and her two supervisors. We highlight the challenges that she faced as an ethnographer in a field already familiar to the researcher and demonstrate how it was possible to use this tension to advantage in crafting an enhanced methodological approach. Drawing …
Doing Focus Groups
Promoting family-focused approaches within adult drug services: The potential of the ‘Senses Framework’
Carer involvement with drug services: A qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Empirical research suggests that involving carers brings benefits to families and services. Consequently, drug-related policy and guidance has increasingly encouraged drug services to involve carers at all levels of service provision. OBJECTIVE: To explore the purpose and scope of carer involvement with adult drug services in North-east Scotland. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: A total of 82 participants (20 informal carers, 43 serv…
Involving families and carers in drug services: Are families ‘part of the problem’
Despite encouragement from policy and research for drug services to involve family members in drug users’ treatment and support families and carers in their own right, family members’ involvement with services remains limited. Research to date offers limited insights into why barriers and tensions are perceived the way they are and reveals little about values and perspectives that underpin relationships between family members and drug services. T…
Introducing Qualitative Research
Undertaking Sensitive Research in the Health and Social Sciences: Managing boundaries, emotions and risks ‐ by Dickson‐Swift, V., James, E.L. and Liamputtong, P
Dickson-Swift, V., James, E.L. and Liamputtong, P. Undertaking Sensitive Research in the Health and Social Sciences: Managing boundaries, emotions and risks . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2008 £27.99 (pbk) xi + 154pp . ISBN 978-0-521-71823-3 Discussion of the impact on the researcher of carrying out sensitive research has been muted. This volume certainly fills this void and is one which I would recommend to all researchers about to e…
Reflections on applying for NHS ethical approval and governance in a climate of rapid change: Prioritising process over principles
Ethical review and governance of health services research in the UK have undergone significant changes in recent years. Tracing this incremental development helps to understand the rationale for introducing a more standardised process. Reflecting on our experience of approval for a national, multi‐centred, qualitative study provides useful insights into both the advantages and disadvantages of this new approach. Advantages include promoting aware…
Doing Focus Groups
Using Focus Groups in Disability Research
Qualitative health service research has increasingly drawn on focus groups to inform health policy and intervention design. Focus groups provide opportunities to engage in the development and evaluation of health services for those service users who are often excluded from other forms of data collection. Increasingly, people with disabilities have been recognized as a marginalized group in health research. To provide appropriate accommodation and…
Making sense of focus groups
Context This paper provides an overview of the contribution of medical education research which has employed focus group methodology to evaluate both undergraduate education and continuing professional development. Practicalities and Problems It also examines current debates about the ethics and practicalities involved in conducting focus group research. It gives guidance as to how to go about designing and planning focus group studies, highlight…
Meddling with Mythology: Aids and the Social Construction of Knowledge
Meddling with Mythology examines the role of research in the construction of modern mythology or folklore surrounding HIV/AIDS. Researchers from a variety of disciplines reflect on the insights gained and the impact of their work, in light of the initial panic surrounding the prediction of an AIDS epidemic. Issues discussed include:- * power * representation * the politics of text * understanding research relationships * impact of research on res…
Focus Group Practice
The Newfound Credibility of Qualitative Research? Tales of Technical Essentialism and Co-Option
Qualitative research is no longer the 'poor relation' to quantitative research that it has been in the past. However, it is important to monitor the manner in which it is becoming incorporated into the mainstream. In this article, the author examines current dangers and challenges by critically reviewing current developments affecting our own research practice. It is argued that technical essentialism (including the co-option of grounded theory) …
Checklists for improving rigour in qualitative research: A case of the tail wagging the dog?
Checklists can be useful improving qualitative research methods, but overzealous and uncritical use can be counterproductive Reducing qualitative research to a list of technical procedures (such as purposive sampling, grounded theory, multiple coding, triangulation, and respondent validation) is overly prescriptive and results in “the tail wagging the dog” None of these “technical fixes” in itself confers rigour; they can strengthen the rigour of…
Are Focus Groups An Appropriate Tool for Studying Organizational Change?
Introduction: The Challenge and Promise of Focus Groups
Developing Focus Group Research
Introduction - Jenny Kitzinger and Rosaline S Barbour The Challenge and Promise of Focus Groups The Impact of Context on Data - Judith Green and Laura Hart Combining Focus Groups and Interviews - Lynn Michell Telling How it Is Telling How it Feels Are Focus Groups Suitable for 'Sensitive' Topics? - Clare Farquhar with Rita Das How Useful Are Focus Groups in Feminist Research? - Sue Wilkinson Do Focus Groups Facilitate Meaningful Participation in …
Mixing Qualitative Methods: Quality Assurance or Qualitative Quagmire
Although the advisability of combining qualitative and quantitative approaches has been questioned on the grounds of incompatibility of epistemological assumptions that underpin the two paradigms, mixing methods within the qualitative paradigm has been viewed as a more straightforward enterprise. This article challenges this view, highlighting the existence of several qualitative traditions, each with its own distinctive set of assumptions about …
Aids in Europe: New Challenges for Social and Behavioural Sciences
The implications of HIV/Aids for a range of workers in the Scottish context
Although there have been a great many surveys of staff members' attitudes to HIV/AIDS, there has been relatively little research which has focused on their actual responses to and experiences of AIDS-related work (Barbour, 1994a). In addition, much of the published work on AIDS workers assumes that the demands of this work are self-evident, contingent upon client contact, and unique to this area of work. The research findings presented here sugge…
The impact of working with people with HIV/Aids: A review of the literature
Who wears the trousers?”
Dealing with the Transsituational Demands of Professional Socialization
Insofar as studies of professional socialization have been concerned with the subjective experience of students they have concentrated on students' experience within the confines of their training course. The present paper examines that parallel but often neglected strand in professional socialization: what becoming a professional entails for students within the context of their private lives. An in-depth participant observation study of one coho…
Developing Focus Group Research
Introduction - Jenny Kitzinger and Rosaline S Barbour The Challenge and Promise of Focus Groups The Impact of Context on Data - Judith Green and Laura Hart Combining Focus Groups and Interviews - Lynn Michell Telling How it Is Telling How it Feels Are Focus Groups Suitable for 'Sensitive' Topics? - Clare Farquhar with Rita Das How Useful Are Focus Groups in Feminist Research? - Sue Wilkinson Do Focus Groups Facilitate Meaningful Participation in …
Who wears the trousers?”
The Newfound Credibility of Qualitative Research? Tales of Technical Essentialism and Co-Option
Qualitative research is no longer the 'poor relation' to quantitative research that it has been in the past. However, it is important to monitor the manner in which it is becoming incorporated into the mainstream. In this article, the author examines current dangers and challenges by critically reviewing current developments affecting our own research practice. It is argued that technical essentialism (including the co-option of grounded theory) …
Reflections on applying for NHS ethical approval and governance in a climate of rapid change: Prioritising process over principles
Ethical review and governance of health services research in the UK have undergone significant changes in recent years. Tracing this incremental development helps to understand the rationale for introducing a more standardised process. Reflecting on our experience of approval for a national, multi‐centred, qualitative study provides useful insights into both the advantages and disadvantages of this new approach. Advantages include promoting aware…
Involving families and carers in drug services: Are families ‘part of the problem’
Despite encouragement from policy and research for drug services to involve family members in drug users’ treatment and support families and carers in their own right, family members’ involvement with services remains limited. Research to date offers limited insights into why barriers and tensions are perceived the way they are and reveals little about values and perspectives that underpin relationships between family members and drug services. T…
Dealing with the Transsituational Demands of Professional Socialization
Insofar as studies of professional socialization have been concerned with the subjective experience of students they have concentrated on students' experience within the confines of their training course. The present paper examines that parallel but often neglected strand in professional socialization: what becoming a professional entails for students within the context of their private lives. An in-depth participant observation study of one coho…
Dealing with the Transsituational Demands of Professional Socialization
Insofar as studies of professional socialization have been concerned with the subjective experience of students they have concentrated on students' experience within the confines of their training course. The present paper examines that parallel but often neglected strand in professional socialization: what becoming a professional entails for students within the context of their private lives. An in-depth participant observation study of one coho…
Who wears the trousers?”
The impact of working with people with HIV/Aids: A review of the literature
The implications of HIV/Aids for a range of workers in the Scottish context
Although there have been a great many surveys of staff members' attitudes to HIV/AIDS, there has been relatively little research which has focused on their actual responses to and experiences of AIDS-related work (Barbour, 1994a). In addition, much of the published work on AIDS workers assumes that the demands of this work are self-evident, contingent upon client contact, and unique to this area of work. The research findings presented here sugge…
Mixing Qualitative Methods: Quality Assurance or Qualitative Quagmire
Although the advisability of combining qualitative and quantitative approaches has been questioned on the grounds of incompatibility of epistemological assumptions that underpin the two paradigms, mixing methods within the qualitative paradigm has been viewed as a more straightforward enterprise. This article challenges this view, highlighting the existence of several qualitative traditions, each with its own distinctive set of assumptions about …
Aids in Europe: New Challenges for Social and Behavioural Sciences
Are Focus Groups An Appropriate Tool for Studying Organizational Change?
Introduction: The Challenge and Promise of Focus Groups
Developing Focus Group Research
Introduction - Jenny Kitzinger and Rosaline S Barbour The Challenge and Promise of Focus Groups The Impact of Context on Data - Judith Green and Laura Hart Combining Focus Groups and Interviews - Lynn Michell Telling How it Is Telling How it Feels Are Focus Groups Suitable for 'Sensitive' Topics? - Clare Farquhar with Rita Das How Useful Are Focus Groups in Feminist Research? - Sue Wilkinson Do Focus Groups Facilitate Meaningful Participation in …
Checklists for improving rigour in qualitative research: A case of the tail wagging the dog?
Checklists can be useful improving qualitative research methods, but overzealous and uncritical use can be counterproductive Reducing qualitative research to a list of technical procedures (such as purposive sampling, grounded theory, multiple coding, triangulation, and respondent validation) is overly prescriptive and results in “the tail wagging the dog” None of these “technical fixes” in itself confers rigour; they can strengthen the rigour of…
The Newfound Credibility of Qualitative Research? Tales of Technical Essentialism and Co-Option
Qualitative research is no longer the 'poor relation' to quantitative research that it has been in the past. However, it is important to monitor the manner in which it is becoming incorporated into the mainstream. In this article, the author examines current dangers and challenges by critically reviewing current developments affecting our own research practice. It is argued that technical essentialism (including the co-option of grounded theory) …
Making sense of focus groups
Context This paper provides an overview of the contribution of medical education research which has employed focus group methodology to evaluate both undergraduate education and continuing professional development. Practicalities and Problems It also examines current debates about the ethics and practicalities involved in conducting focus group research. It gives guidance as to how to go about designing and planning focus group studies, highlight…
Meddling with Mythology: Aids and the Social Construction of Knowledge
Meddling with Mythology examines the role of research in the construction of modern mythology or folklore surrounding HIV/AIDS. Researchers from a variety of disciplines reflect on the insights gained and the impact of their work, in light of the initial panic surrounding the prediction of an AIDS epidemic. Issues discussed include:- * power * representation * the politics of text * understanding research relationships * impact of research on res…
Focus Group Practice
Doing Focus Groups
Using Focus Groups in Disability Research
Qualitative health service research has increasingly drawn on focus groups to inform health policy and intervention design. Focus groups provide opportunities to engage in the development and evaluation of health services for those service users who are often excluded from other forms of data collection. Increasingly, people with disabilities have been recognized as a marginalized group in health research. To provide appropriate accommodation and…
Reflections on applying for NHS ethical approval and governance in a climate of rapid change: Prioritising process over principles
Ethical review and governance of health services research in the UK have undergone significant changes in recent years. Tracing this incremental development helps to understand the rationale for introducing a more standardised process. Reflecting on our experience of approval for a national, multi‐centred, qualitative study provides useful insights into both the advantages and disadvantages of this new approach. Advantages include promoting aware…
Undertaking Sensitive Research in the Health and Social Sciences: Managing boundaries, emotions and risks ‐ by Dickson‐Swift, V., James, E.L. and Liamputtong, P
Dickson-Swift, V., James, E.L. and Liamputtong, P. Undertaking Sensitive Research in the Health and Social Sciences: Managing boundaries, emotions and risks . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2008 £27.99 (pbk) xi + 154pp . ISBN 978-0-521-71823-3 Discussion of the impact on the researcher of carrying out sensitive research has been muted. This volume certainly fills this void and is one which I would recommend to all researchers about to e…
Carer involvement with drug services: A qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Empirical research suggests that involving carers brings benefits to families and services. Consequently, drug-related policy and guidance has increasingly encouraged drug services to involve carers at all levels of service provision. OBJECTIVE: To explore the purpose and scope of carer involvement with adult drug services in North-east Scotland. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: A total of 82 participants (20 informal carers, 43 serv…
Involving families and carers in drug services: Are families ‘part of the problem’
Despite encouragement from policy and research for drug services to involve family members in drug users’ treatment and support families and carers in their own right, family members’ involvement with services remains limited. Research to date offers limited insights into why barriers and tensions are perceived the way they are and reveals little about values and perspectives that underpin relationships between family members and drug services. T…
Introducing Qualitative Research
Promoting family-focused approaches within adult drug services: The potential of the ‘Senses Framework’
Doing Focus Groups
Some Methodological Insights from a Reflexive “Insider” Ethnography of Shiatsu Practice
Presented as a collaborative reflexive account, this article has evolved through a series of discussions between the first author—who carried out an “insider” ethnography of Shiatsu practice—and her two supervisors. We highlight the challenges that she faced as an ethnographer in a field already familiar to the researcher and demonstrate how it was possible to use this tension to advantage in crafting an enhanced methodological approach. Drawing …
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