Researching consent in veterinary practice: The use of interpretive description as a multidisciplinary methodology



Gray, Carol ORCID: 0000-0002-1800-4574
(2020) Researching consent in veterinary practice: The use of interpretive description as a multidisciplinary methodology. Methodological Innovations, 13 (3). 0-0.

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Abstract

In this article, I present three I-poems from a larger research project in which I explore the health, identity and social impacts of cycling for people with physical disabilities. I used I-poems as a means of kick-starting an in-depth, multi-perspective engagement with my interview transcripts after struggling to formulate insightful and productive thematic analysis. For me, this research project is something of a departure from my normal research processes and practices as it is taking place in partnership with a voluntary organisation. This organisation facilitated the recruitment of the research participants and had specific inputs into the research questions as well as maintaining ongoing interests in the research findings. My usual research tends to be much less structured and much more exploratory and messy than this. And yet, for me, this messiness facilitates insight and creative engagement which is intensely productive in terms of both findings and outputs – often via the use of creative methods. Therefore, as much as I have enjoyed conducting the research for this project and liaising with the organisation and meeting the participants, I struggled to find my ‘researcher mojo’ when working with the transcripts. In this context, I-poems became a creative stimulant for productive engagement with the transcripts and deepening my critical and reflective insights into the data.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: qualitative analysis, I-poems, disabled cyclists, reflexive practice, insider research
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 23 Sep 2020 13:30
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 23:31
DOI: 10.1177/2059799120961614
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3102293