A meta-methodology to enhance pluralist qualitative research: One man’s use of socio-sexual media and midlife adjustment to HIV
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2018Keyword
Pluralist qualitative researchHIV
Thematic analysis
Meta-methodology
Socio-sexual media
Research Development Fund Publication Prize Award
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© 2018 Taylor & Francis. The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Psychology and Health, 5 Jul 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2018.1475670.Peer-Reviewed
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Our aim is to offer and illustrates a novel meta-methodology to enhance the rigour of method selection and understanding of results in pluralist qualitative research (PQR). To do so, we make innovative use of Braun and Clarke’s (2006) articulation of four discrete dimensions characterising different forms of thematic analysis. We provide secondary analyses of an interview from the Social Media, Men who have Sex with Men and Sexual Health project using critical discursive psychology, dialogical analysis, interpretative phenomenological analysis, and psychosocial narrative analysis. All four methods identified aspects of three central foci: Compartmentalisation, Detachment, and Jouissance. We discuss how our proposed meta-methodology provides a rationale for the selection of methods in a PQR, offer evidence that it can anticipate the relative similarity in focus of the methods employed, and argue that our meta-methodology reveals the possibility of identifying an ‘axial’ or ‘hub’ method’ of a PQR which might be particularly fruitful in exploring commonalities and differences in results. Finally, we examine the synergies and challenges of combining pairs of the methods we used.Version
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Madill A, Flowers P, Frost N and Locke A (2018) A meta-methodology to enhance pluralist qualitative research: One man’s use of socio-sexual media and midlife adjustment to HIV. Psychology and Health. 33(10): 1209-1228.Link to Version of Record
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Research Development Fund Publication Prize Award winner.ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2018.1475670