Bogusia Temple
Biographic Data
| ID | 260648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bogusia Temple |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bogusia |
| FAMILY NAME | Temple |
| SIGNATURE | TEMPLE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 656 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Feeling Special: Language in the Lives of Polish People
In this article I use findings from an ESRC funded project on language and identity in the narratives of Polish people to challenge a narrow approach to language in debates about integration. I argue that decisions about learning languages are influenced by wider concerns of self and other identification rather then simply being issues of instrumental need. I show how research participants viewed speaking Polish as an important part of being Poli…
‘They know where to find us ….’ Service providers’ views on Early Support and minority ethnic communities
In this article we examine the views of multi‐professional service providers on the provision of Early Support for disabled children 0–3 years old from minority ethnic communities. We begin with a description of national policies relevant to this field and of Early Support before describing a national evaluation of its impact. We discuss findings from a sample of service providers. The range of views on provision for disabled children from divers…
Narrative methodologies: Subjects, silences, re-readings and analyses
Narrative analysis of written texts: Reflexivity in cross language research
This article examines how researchers address cross language narratives. Research and writing by migrants suggest that a change of language can lead to changes in both how people perceive themselves and how others perceive them. That is, changing language involves more than a simple change of words. However, researchers rarely consider the consequences of moving between languages in analysing and writing up narratives. This is particularly surpri…
Disabled children (0-3 years) and integrated services - the impact of Early Support: Early Support and integrated services
Early Support (ES) is the flagship government programme aimed at improving multi-agency working with, and supporting enhanced outcomes for, children with a disability 0-3 years and their families. This paper draws on results from the recently completed Department for Education and Skills commissioned national evaluation of ES involving 46 pathfinder projects throughout England. Data were collected by survey at two points in time (9 months apart),…
Combining methods, constructing needs and consulting service users: Reflections on a research project
Contesting Cultural Communities: Language, Ethnicity and Citizenship in Britain
In recent years, the Home Office has adopted a reinvigorated policy of citizenship education and integration towards both new immigrants and settled minority ethnic communities. One of the cornerstones of this new policy is English language, which is seen as a key tool for the successful integration of Britain's diverse communities. This paper is divided into two parts. Firstly, it explores the changing role of English language in the current deb…
Doing Research with Refugees: Issues and Guidelines
The history of social policy is emerging as an area of growing interest to both students and researchers. This topical book charts the period from the 1830s to the present day, providing a fresh analysis of the relationship between social theory and social policy in the UK.
Representation across languages: Biographical sociology meets translation and interpretation studies
Biographical approaches are increasingly being used with people who speak and write a range of languages. Even when an account is originally spoken, the final version usually ends up written in the language used by the majority of the population. Researchers have shown that adopting a language that is not the one an account was given in may change how someone is perceived. Yet little has been written by sociologists using biographical approaches …
Interpreting Trust: Abstract and Personal Trust for People who Need Interpreters to Access Services
This article looks at the political and conceptual process of trust drawing on a research project exploring the experiences of people who speak little English and thus need interpreters in order to access services. We examine posited solidarity/diversity tensions in the politicisation of notions of general social trust, and debates about the process of trust, including distinctions between abstract and personal trust, the role of familiarity, and…
Users’ experiences of interpreters: The critical role of trust
This article explores the experiences of people who need interpreters to gain access to and use of a range of services, drawing on semi-structured interviews with people from Chinese, Kurdish, Bangladeshi, Indian and Polish minority ethnic groups living in Manchester and London, UK. We describe our research methodology, and place the study in its political and community context. We look at the qualities the people we interviewed considered made f…
Nice and Tidy: Translation and Representation
Across many disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies and sociolinguistics, writers and researchers are concerned with how language is used to construct representations of people in written and oral accounts. There is also increasing interest in cross-disciplinary approaches to language and representation in research. Within health, social care and housing research there is a rapidly growing volume of writing on…
Injustices of engagement: Issues in housing needs assessments with minority ethnic communities
In this paper, the authors draw out some of the issues involved in housing needs assessment with minority ethnic communities. In particular, they look at three aspects of ‘injustices of engagement’: (1) in the communities that are recognised; (2) who within these communities is included in needs assessments; and (3) how they are included. In the latter category they challenge the extent of community involvement in needs assessments generally and …
Qualitative Research and Translation Dilemmas
The focus of this article is an examination of translation dilemmas in qualitative research. Specifically it explores three questions: whether methodologically it matters if the act of translation is identified or not; the epistemological implications of who does translation; and the consequences for the final product of how far the researcher chooses to involve a translator in research. Some of the ways in which researchers have tackled language…
Issues in Multi-Method Research: Constructing Self-Care
In this article, the authors examine claims that using more than one method in research automatically enhances validity. They argue that if the findings from different methods are the same this does not automatically prove the study is valid. It may show that the researchers looked only for evidence that supported the findings from one method. Complementarity of methods does not mean that different methods have to produce the same findings. That …
The salience of terminology: Housing research with older people from minority ethnic communities
In this article we focus on recent literature on the housing needs of older people from minority ethnic communities. Such research has undoubtedly benefited particular communities in demonstrating that their needs have been neglected to date. However, the terminology used to describe ethnicity often assumes an unproblematic black-white divide in that it defines communities as discrete and homogeneous groups. Moreover, whilst much research in this…
Prioritising home care needs: Research with older people from three ethnic minority community groups
This paper draws on research with three minority ethnic community groups in Manchester. The aim of the study was to examine and prioritise social care needs. Focus groups were chosen as a way of beginning discussion about these issues. The findings suggest that some quality issues are relevant to all communities of older people. However, some were specific to the community groups. This paper describes some of the lessons learned about running foc…
Crossed Wires: Interpreters, Translators, and Bilingual Workers in Cross-Language Research
Increasingly, researchers are undertaking studies involving people who do not speak the same language as they do. Sociologists have long argued that language constructs the social world at the same time as it describes it. However, the implications of this for cross-language research are rarely considered. Employing interpreters/translators and "cultural brokers" in research raises methodological issues around the meanings of concepts and how to …
Interpreters/Translators and Cross-Language Research: Reflexivity and Border Crossings
In this article, the authors examine the implications of extending calls for reflexivity in qualitative research generally to cross-language research with interpreters. Drawing on the concept of 'borders', they present two research projects to demonstrate the need to locate the interpreter as active in producing research accounts. They extend the concept of 'border crossing', relating this to identity politics and the benefits of making the inter…
Polish Families: A Narrative Approach
This article describes why the author came to use a narrative approach in research with Polish people. The author looks at the problems in defining Polish families given that defining both Polish and family is not straightforward. A narrative approach enables a researcher to evaluate such complex categorizations and the links between them. At its best, such an approach involves more than a content analysis of an interview. It entails a focus on t…
The Devil in the Detail: An Account of Self-Harm
In this article we discuss self-harm data from an A & E (Emergency Room) Department in an English hospital. In order to be able to examine the relationship between data collection, analysis and findings we focus on the processes we used as researchers in constructing the dataset. Doing this, we argue, is as important as just analysing findings since this process in part constructs the findings. Moreover, how people's actions are defined may impac…
Diaspora, diaspora space and polish women
A fair trial? Judging quality in qualitative research
There has been a welcome growth in the use of qualitative methods in health services research. Most qualitative researchers would consider many of the criteria for evaluating their research suggested in the health services literature to be important and unproblematic. In this paper I focus on two more contentious criteria: how reliability and validity (both internal and external) should be judged in qualitative research. I argue that, as with all…
Whose Future? Whose Sociology? a Response to Tam and Deutscher
Frame analysis has been often used by scholars studying New Social Movements to analyze their discourses and their ability to mobilise people. This paper refers to the application of 'frame analysis' to a different context, namely to discourses of both social movements and institutional actors in the context of public policy-making. More particularly, the study is concerned with the discourses of social actors who participate in the making of EU …
Collegial Accountability' and Bias: The Solution or the Problem
In a recent debate about bias in social research, Hammersley and Gomm (1997) discuss error, and bias as a form of error, as 'a matter of collegial accountability'. They argue that radical epistemologies are a growing threat to the research community. Only by using such a community to decide what is reasonable can researchers avoid the threatened slip into the abyss. This threat is illustrated for the authors by, for example, the growing emphasis …
Qualitative Research and Translation Dilemmas
The focus of this article is an examination of translation dilemmas in qualitative research. Specifically it explores three questions: whether methodologically it matters if the act of translation is identified or not; the epistemological implications of who does translation; and the consequences for the final product of how far the researcher chooses to involve a translator in research. Some of the ways in which researchers have tackled language…
Interpreters/Translators and Cross-Language Research: Reflexivity and Border Crossings
In this article, the authors examine the implications of extending calls for reflexivity in qualitative research generally to cross-language research with interpreters. Drawing on the concept of 'borders', they present two research projects to demonstrate the need to locate the interpreter as active in producing research accounts. They extend the concept of 'border crossing', relating this to identity politics and the benefits of making the inter…
Crossed Wires: Interpreters, Translators, and Bilingual Workers in Cross-Language Research
Increasingly, researchers are undertaking studies involving people who do not speak the same language as they do. Sociologists have long argued that language constructs the social world at the same time as it describes it. However, the implications of this for cross-language research are rarely considered. Employing interpreters/translators and "cultural brokers" in research raises methodological issues around the meanings of concepts and how to …
Watch Your Tongue: Issues in Translation and Cross-Cultural Research
Considering the large amount of research being undertaken in Eastern Europe and elsewhere involving the use of more than one language, there has been a remarkable silence in sociological debate about the status of this research. In this article I argue that such issues should be of concern to social scientists generally as well as to linguists. Using my own research with British-Polish communities, I raise some concerns surrounding the translatio…
Contesting Cultural Communities: Language, Ethnicity and Citizenship in Britain
In recent years, the Home Office has adopted a reinvigorated policy of citizenship education and integration towards both new immigrants and settled minority ethnic communities. One of the cornerstones of this new policy is English language, which is seen as a key tool for the successful integration of Britain's diverse communities. This paper is divided into two parts. Firstly, it explores the changing role of English language in the current deb…
Users’ experiences of interpreters: The critical role of trust
This article explores the experiences of people who need interpreters to gain access to and use of a range of services, drawing on semi-structured interviews with people from Chinese, Kurdish, Bangladeshi, Indian and Polish minority ethnic groups living in Manchester and London, UK. We describe our research methodology, and place the study in its political and community context. We look at the qualities the people we interviewed considered made f…
Narrative methodologies: Subjects, silences, re-readings and analyses
Feeling Special: Language in the Lives of Polish People
In this article I use findings from an ESRC funded project on language and identity in the narratives of Polish people to challenge a narrow approach to language in debates about integration. I argue that decisions about learning languages are influenced by wider concerns of self and other identification rather then simply being issues of instrumental need. I show how research participants viewed speaking Polish as an important part of being Poli…
Whose Project is it Anyway? Sharing and shaping the research and development agenda
The NHS and Community Care Act 1990 (NHSCCA) requires that local authorities should consult with service users in their review and planning of services. This requirement is open to various levels of interpretation. The exercise becomes more complex when planning and review are based on a funded research project, in which the voice of users can easily be lost or their participation only nominal. This article examines some of the key issues and dil…
Issues in Multi-Method Research: Constructing Self-Care
In this article, the authors examine claims that using more than one method in research automatically enhances validity. They argue that if the findings from different methods are the same this does not automatically prove the study is valid. It may show that the researchers looked only for evidence that supported the findings from one method. Complementarity of methods does not mean that different methods have to produce the same findings. That …
Diaspora, diaspora space and polish women
Representation across languages: Biographical sociology meets translation and interpretation studies
Biographical approaches are increasingly being used with people who speak and write a range of languages. Even when an account is originally spoken, the final version usually ends up written in the language used by the majority of the population. Researchers have shown that adopting a language that is not the one an account was given in may change how someone is perceived. Yet little has been written by sociologists using biographical approaches …
Nice and Tidy: Translation and Representation
Across many disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies and sociolinguistics, writers and researchers are concerned with how language is used to construct representations of people in written and oral accounts. There is also increasing interest in cross-disciplinary approaches to language and representation in research. Within health, social care and housing research there is a rapidly growing volume of writing on…
Narrative analysis of written texts: Reflexivity in cross language research
This article examines how researchers address cross language narratives. Research and writing by migrants suggest that a change of language can lead to changes in both how people perceive themselves and how others perceive them. That is, changing language involves more than a simple change of words. However, researchers rarely consider the consequences of moving between languages in analysing and writing up narratives. This is particularly surpri…
Time Travels: Time, Oral Histories and British-Polish Identities
In the research process, as in life generally, people construct their ethnic identity in different and changing ways. In this process, time is both a resource and a tool for construction. Looking at research into Polish communities in Britain, it is argued that time, far from being a measure of a pre-existing reality, is instead auto/biographically constructive of selves, identities and realities
Constructing polishness, researching polish women's lives
Polish Families: A Narrative Approach
This article describes why the author came to use a narrative approach in research with Polish people. The author looks at the problems in defining Polish families given that defining both Polish and family is not straightforward. A narrative approach enables a researcher to evaluate such complex categorizations and the links between them. At its best, such an approach involves more than a content analysis of an interview. It entails a focus on t…
Interpreting Trust: Abstract and Personal Trust for People who Need Interpreters to Access Services
This article looks at the political and conceptual process of trust drawing on a research project exploring the experiences of people who speak little English and thus need interpreters in order to access services. We examine posited solidarity/diversity tensions in the politicisation of notions of general social trust, and debates about the process of trust, including distinctions between abstract and personal trust, the role of familiarity, and…
Prioritising home care needs: Research with older people from three ethnic minority community groups
This paper draws on research with three minority ethnic community groups in Manchester. The aim of the study was to examine and prioritise social care needs. Focus groups were chosen as a way of beginning discussion about these issues. The findings suggest that some quality issues are relevant to all communities of older people. However, some were specific to the community groups. This paper describes some of the lessons learned about running foc…
Collegial Accountability' and Bias: The Solution or the Problem
In a recent debate about bias in social research, Hammersley and Gomm (1997) discuss error, and bias as a form of error, as 'a matter of collegial accountability'. They argue that radical epistemologies are a growing threat to the research community. Only by using such a community to decide what is reasonable can researchers avoid the threatened slip into the abyss. This threat is illustrated for the authors by, for example, the growing emphasis …
Combining methods, constructing needs and consulting service users: Reflections on a research project
Injustices of engagement: Issues in housing needs assessments with minority ethnic communities
In this paper, the authors draw out some of the issues involved in housing needs assessment with minority ethnic communities. In particular, they look at three aspects of ‘injustices of engagement’: (1) in the communities that are recognised; (2) who within these communities is included in needs assessments; and (3) how they are included. In the latter category they challenge the extent of community involvement in needs assessments generally and …
A fair trial? Judging quality in qualitative research
There has been a welcome growth in the use of qualitative methods in health services research. Most qualitative researchers would consider many of the criteria for evaluating their research suggested in the health services literature to be important and unproblematic. In this paper I focus on two more contentious criteria: how reliability and validity (both internal and external) should be judged in qualitative research. I argue that, as with all…
Combining Methods: Epistemological Considerations in the Study of Families and Households
In this article, the author looks at the processes involved in constructing concepts such as family and household using different methods. The author argues that the choice of method does matter but that there is no a priori link between method and construct or between method and epistemological position. However, the extent to which different methods can be used in a complementary way depends on the epistemology that the researcher adopts. If ho…
The salience of terminology: Housing research with older people from minority ethnic communities
In this article we focus on recent literature on the housing needs of older people from minority ethnic communities. Such research has undoubtedly benefited particular communities in demonstrating that their needs have been neglected to date. However, the terminology used to describe ethnicity often assumes an unproblematic black-white divide in that it defines communities as discrete and homogeneous groups. Moreover, whilst much research in this…
The cost of prescribing in general practice
Constructing polishness, researching polish women's lives
Combining Methods: Epistemological Considerations in the Study of Families and Households
In this article, the author looks at the processes involved in constructing concepts such as family and household using different methods. The author argues that the choice of method does matter but that there is no a priori link between method and construct or between method and epistemological position. However, the extent to which different methods can be used in a complementary way depends on the epistemology that the researcher adopts. If ho…
Polish Women, Solidarity and Feminism
Gatherers of pig-swill' and 'thinkers: Gender and community amongst British poles
In this paper I argue that research on British Poles to date has focused on a particular and limiting set of definitions of what it means to be Polish. The notion of community has been constructed in a way that is classed and gendered whilst these characteristics are denied as irrelevant. It is assumed that the notion of ‘community’ is both objective and neutral in terms of its assumed foundation within the work of different people. However, a co…
Whose Project is it Anyway? Sharing and shaping the research and development agenda
The NHS and Community Care Act 1990 (NHSCCA) requires that local authorities should consult with service users in their review and planning of services. This requirement is open to various levels of interpretation. The exercise becomes more complex when planning and review are based on a funded research project, in which the voice of users can easily be lost or their participation only nominal. This article examines some of the key issues and dil…
Researching women's lives from a feminist perspective
Time Travels: Time, Oral Histories and British-Polish Identities
In the research process, as in life generally, people construct their ethnic identity in different and changing ways. In this process, time is both a resource and a tool for construction. Looking at research into Polish communities in Britain, it is argued that time, far from being a measure of a pre-existing reality, is instead auto/biographically constructive of selves, identities and realities
Collegial Accountability' and Bias: The Solution or the Problem
In a recent debate about bias in social research, Hammersley and Gomm (1997) discuss error, and bias as a form of error, as 'a matter of collegial accountability'. They argue that radical epistemologies are a growing threat to the research community. Only by using such a community to decide what is reasonable can researchers avoid the threatened slip into the abyss. This threat is illustrated for the authors by, for example, the growing emphasis …
Watch Your Tongue: Issues in Translation and Cross-Cultural Research
Considering the large amount of research being undertaken in Eastern Europe and elsewhere involving the use of more than one language, there has been a remarkable silence in sociological debate about the status of this research. In this article I argue that such issues should be of concern to social scientists generally as well as to linguists. Using my own research with British-Polish communities, I raise some concerns surrounding the translatio…
A fair trial? Judging quality in qualitative research
There has been a welcome growth in the use of qualitative methods in health services research. Most qualitative researchers would consider many of the criteria for evaluating their research suggested in the health services literature to be important and unproblematic. In this paper I focus on two more contentious criteria: how reliability and validity (both internal and external) should be judged in qualitative research. I argue that, as with all…
Whose Future? Whose Sociology? a Response to Tam and Deutscher
Frame analysis has been often used by scholars studying New Social Movements to analyze their discourses and their ability to mobilise people. This paper refers to the application of 'frame analysis' to a different context, namely to discourses of both social movements and institutional actors in the context of public policy-making. More particularly, the study is concerned with the discourses of social actors who participate in the making of EU …
Diaspora, diaspora space and polish women
The Devil in the Detail: An Account of Self-Harm
In this article we discuss self-harm data from an A & E (Emergency Room) Department in an English hospital. In order to be able to examine the relationship between data collection, analysis and findings we focus on the processes we used as researchers in constructing the dataset. Doing this, we argue, is as important as just analysing findings since this process in part constructs the findings. Moreover, how people's actions are defined may impac…
Polish Families: A Narrative Approach
This article describes why the author came to use a narrative approach in research with Polish people. The author looks at the problems in defining Polish families given that defining both Polish and family is not straightforward. A narrative approach enables a researcher to evaluate such complex categorizations and the links between them. At its best, such an approach involves more than a content analysis of an interview. It entails a focus on t…
The salience of terminology: Housing research with older people from minority ethnic communities
In this article we focus on recent literature on the housing needs of older people from minority ethnic communities. Such research has undoubtedly benefited particular communities in demonstrating that their needs have been neglected to date. However, the terminology used to describe ethnicity often assumes an unproblematic black-white divide in that it defines communities as discrete and homogeneous groups. Moreover, whilst much research in this…
Prioritising home care needs: Research with older people from three ethnic minority community groups
This paper draws on research with three minority ethnic community groups in Manchester. The aim of the study was to examine and prioritise social care needs. Focus groups were chosen as a way of beginning discussion about these issues. The findings suggest that some quality issues are relevant to all communities of older people. However, some were specific to the community groups. This paper describes some of the lessons learned about running foc…
Crossed Wires: Interpreters, Translators, and Bilingual Workers in Cross-Language Research
Increasingly, researchers are undertaking studies involving people who do not speak the same language as they do. Sociologists have long argued that language constructs the social world at the same time as it describes it. However, the implications of this for cross-language research are rarely considered. Employing interpreters/translators and "cultural brokers" in research raises methodological issues around the meanings of concepts and how to …
Interpreters/Translators and Cross-Language Research: Reflexivity and Border Crossings
In this article, the authors examine the implications of extending calls for reflexivity in qualitative research generally to cross-language research with interpreters. Drawing on the concept of 'borders', they present two research projects to demonstrate the need to locate the interpreter as active in producing research accounts. They extend the concept of 'border crossing', relating this to identity politics and the benefits of making the inter…
Issues in Multi-Method Research: Constructing Self-Care
In this article, the authors examine claims that using more than one method in research automatically enhances validity. They argue that if the findings from different methods are the same this does not automatically prove the study is valid. It may show that the researchers looked only for evidence that supported the findings from one method. Complementarity of methods does not mean that different methods have to produce the same findings. That …
Injustices of engagement: Issues in housing needs assessments with minority ethnic communities
In this paper, the authors draw out some of the issues involved in housing needs assessment with minority ethnic communities. In particular, they look at three aspects of ‘injustices of engagement’: (1) in the communities that are recognised; (2) who within these communities is included in needs assessments; and (3) how they are included. In the latter category they challenge the extent of community involvement in needs assessments generally and …
Qualitative Research and Translation Dilemmas
The focus of this article is an examination of translation dilemmas in qualitative research. Specifically it explores three questions: whether methodologically it matters if the act of translation is identified or not; the epistemological implications of who does translation; and the consequences for the final product of how far the researcher chooses to involve a translator in research. Some of the ways in which researchers have tackled language…
Users’ experiences of interpreters: The critical role of trust
This article explores the experiences of people who need interpreters to gain access to and use of a range of services, drawing on semi-structured interviews with people from Chinese, Kurdish, Bangladeshi, Indian and Polish minority ethnic groups living in Manchester and London, UK. We describe our research methodology, and place the study in its political and community context. We look at the qualities the people we interviewed considered made f…
Nice and Tidy: Translation and Representation
Across many disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies and sociolinguistics, writers and researchers are concerned with how language is used to construct representations of people in written and oral accounts. There is also increasing interest in cross-disciplinary approaches to language and representation in research. Within health, social care and housing research there is a rapidly growing volume of writing on…
Doing Research with Refugees: Issues and Guidelines
The history of social policy is emerging as an area of growing interest to both students and researchers. This topical book charts the period from the 1830s to the present day, providing a fresh analysis of the relationship between social theory and social policy in the UK.
Sociology (29 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (11 works) · Ethnic group (9 works) · Politics (9 works)