University of Melbourne, Australia; Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Editor-in-Chief / Associate Editor
Organizational Research Methods (ORM) – https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ORM
Joint Topic – 40 mins “What’s the big deal about methods …………why is it a topic worth talking about and how would I talk about it……….”. The complex nature of writing and publishing qualitative research-oriented papers requires one to be focused on the approach taken and how well this is narrative by the writer. The methodological choice offered to researchers who embark upon the adoption of qualitative methods is vast and varied, requiring one to exercise a degree of choice in terms of the most suitable mode of inquiry. In this context it can be argued, it is here that the writer is presented with the first obstacle in writing about their selected method – that is explaining how their chosen mode of inquiry in a manner which offers justification and insight into their subject matter. For all qualitative researcher this is a challenge, the demand placed on the writer to offer credible justification and display rigour in their adopted methodological framework becomes a core challenge, the tension which emerges from this position is not an explicit point of our scholarly conversations, especially one which is not written about. The purpose of this session is to address two central conversational points –
What is the best way to present and engage with qualitative methodological approaches as a writer
What are the core skills required for advancing the writing of qualitative research methods?