Getting to the Heart of the Matter

Making Meaning-Three Challenges for Family Researchers

Bibliographic Data

ID4710135
AuthorsRobyn Munford (0000-0002-7710-2748, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand), Jackie Sanders (0000-0003-3741-0794, Barnardos Child and Family Research Center, Palmerston North, New Zealand)
Year2000
Volume10
Issue6
Pages841-852
Publication date2000-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/104973200129118750
PMID11146863
OpenAlexW2153968670
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

This article explores three of the challenges that qualitative researchers face when working in the family health and well-being field. It is based on the authors' experiences of an ongoing research program that involves research in a human services organization and a family-focused community study. The authors discuss three challenges in the context of this experience and highlight the ways in which they have resolved them within this research program. The first challenge centers on forming research questions. The second challenge concerns access and reciprocity. The final challenge involves research partnerships and teams. Partnerships can take many different forms and hold much potential in qualitative research. Participants can become research partners, or they can maintain more traditional roles as providers of information. Deciding which role participants should have and how to manage the resultant relationships become important tasks in qualitative research because of the intense levels of involvement that often characterize these sorts of research programs

Engineering ethics · Knowledge management · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Computer Science · Engineering · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology

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