TY - JOUR
T1 - White British researchers and internationally educated research participants
T2 - Insights from reflective practices on issues of language and culture in nursing contexts
AU - Westwood, Sue
PY - 2015/12/15
Y1 - 2015/12/15
N2 - This paper explores how reflective practices enabled researchers to achieve a more complex analysis of qualitative data generated from focus groups. Drawing on our experiences as two white British researchers, conducting a study with internationally educated nurses from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, we consider how our analysis led us to a more nuanced understanding of the data than might have occurred without reflectivity. We identified our respective standpoints, confronted our feared biases, particularly in relation to social stereotyping and prejudice, and located ourselves as co-producers of the data. This enabled us to consider how we might be representing, holding and paralleling, systemic patterns of discrimination, leading to several new insights. Reflective practice is often referred to in theory, less often in application. We hope that sharing our reflective process will benefit other researchers navigating the complex waters of identifying themselves in their research.
AB - This paper explores how reflective practices enabled researchers to achieve a more complex analysis of qualitative data generated from focus groups. Drawing on our experiences as two white British researchers, conducting a study with internationally educated nurses from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, we consider how our analysis led us to a more nuanced understanding of the data than might have occurred without reflectivity. We identified our respective standpoints, confronted our feared biases, particularly in relation to social stereotyping and prejudice, and located ourselves as co-producers of the data. This enabled us to consider how we might be representing, holding and paralleling, systemic patterns of discrimination, leading to several new insights. Reflective practice is often referred to in theory, less often in application. We hope that sharing our reflective process will benefit other researchers navigating the complex waters of identifying themselves in their research.
KW - Ethnicity
KW - Focus groups
KW - Methodological inquiry
KW - Nurses
KW - Qualitative
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84958965541&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1744987115618236
DO - 10.1177/1744987115618236
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84958965541
SN - 1744-9871
VL - 20
SP - 640
EP - 652
JO - Journal of Research in Nursing
JF - Journal of Research in Nursing
IS - 8
ER -