'I Take Them with Me' - Reflexivity in Sensitive Reseach

Reflective Practice, 15(4), 530-359, 2014

Posted: 16 Jun 2014

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Tova Band-Winterstein

University of Haifa

Israel Issi Doron

University of Haifa - Department of Gerontology

Sigal Naim

University of Haifa

Date Written: June 16, 2014

Abstract

What do we as researchers bring to the research we conduct? What do the participants and the topics under study evoke within us? These questions are well known within the qualitative research methodology. This paper aims at using reflexivity to describe researchers’ involvement at significant stages of the research and to help them deal with sensitive, ‘hard-to-swallow’ situations. In order to achieve that, we describe the reflexivity process we went through while conducting a research on elder self-neglect in Israel. We describe how reflexivity helped us at every stage of the research, from pre-research, through data collection and to data analysis.

Keywords: Self neglect, Reflexivity, Geriatrics, Sensitive research

JEL Classification: C99, J14

Suggested Citation

Band-Winterstein, Tova and Doron, Israel and Naim, Sigal, 'I Take Them with Me' - Reflexivity in Sensitive Reseach (June 16, 2014). Reflective Practice, 15(4), 530-359, 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2450936

Tova Band-Winterstein

University of Haifa ( email )

Haifa 31905
Israel

Israel Doron (Contact Author)

University of Haifa - Department of Gerontology ( email )

Haifa 31905
Israel
972-4-8249954 (Phone)
972-4-8249946 (Fax)

Sigal Naim

University of Haifa ( email )

Mount Carmel
Haifa, 31905
Israel

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