Special issue introduction – working towards allyship

In this special issue, we create space to discuss and extend on conceptualisation, theorisation, and practice of allyship in qualitative psychology research. Allyship can be defined broadly as a way of redressing power imbalances between privileged and marginalised groups and individuals and is thus strongly aligned with qualitative methods founded on social justice. The discipline of psychology, in contrast, has traditionally contributed to oppression of people considered not White, not heterosexual, not male, disabled, poor, not sane, and/or Indigenous. The contributions in this special issue consider the role of psychology in redressing this oppression. In this introduction to the special issue, we explore some of the common threads across these contributions, namely the ways in which power and control, relationships, and intersectionality and diversity relate to research involving allyship. Overall, the work presented in this special issue furthers knowledge and innovation in allyship and the particular place of allyship in qualitative research within psychology and beyond

Discourse analysis · Discursive psychology · Epistemology · Intersectionality · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology

• A study of critical whiteness in sport research and disrupting racism

  Open Access•Teresa Hill, Dawn E Trussell et al.•Leisure/Loisir•2024

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• Psychology educators’ perspectives on partnering with people with lived experience in psychology training

  Rebecca Greenwood, Sarah E Gordon et al.•Higher Education Research &…•2026

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• Now I Understand why She Needs Our help”

  Rita Karoline Olsen•The International Journal of…•2022

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• Black Lives Matter in higher education

  Julia Warrener, Vida Douglas•Critical and Radical Social Work•2023

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• GRIPP2 reporting checklists

  Open Access•Sophie Staniszewska, Jo Brett et al.•BMJ•2017

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• Participatory Research

  Open Access•Derya Ozkul•MIGRATION LETTERS•2020

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• The third sphere

  Chloë Dierckx, Lynn Hendricks et al.•Qualitative Research in Psychology•2020

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• Small talk matters! Creating allyship in mental health research

  Ruth Lambley•Qualitative Research in Psychology•2020

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• Reflections on allyship in the context of a co-produced evaluation of a youth-integrated therapies mental health intervention

  Sarah Gordon, Sarah E Gordon et al.•Qualitative Research in Psychology•2020

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• Because ‘grown-ups don’t always get it right’

  Emma Maynard, Sarah Barton et al.•Qualitative Research in Psychology•2020

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• Nothing about us without us’

  Ratnadevi Manokaran, Cat Pausé et al.•Qualitative Research in Psychology•2020

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• Joint allies

  Sarah Seymour‐smith, David J Brown et al.•Qualitative Research in Psychology•2020

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• What does effective allyship between social work and lived experience workers look like in the Australian forensic mental health context

  Caroline Lambert, Ronnie Egan et al.•Qualitative Research in Psychology•2021

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• Motivations for allyship with mental health consumer movements

  Cameron Moss, Terri Warner et al.•Qualitative Research in Psychology•2020

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• From a stranger to a ‘one-of-us’ ally

  Wendy W Li, Mee-Lynd Hung et al.•Qualitative Research in Psychology•2020

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