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dc.contributor.authorDeblasio, Lisamarie
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-22T13:18:00Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-10
dc.identifier.issn0966-3622
dc.identifier.issn1572-8455
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/18609
dc.description.abstract

This essay explores social science researchers with ‘insider status’. This term describes a researcher who is a member of the population they are studying. The research in question involved a birth mother studying the impact of compulsory child adoption on birth mothers. Research that grows from traumatic experiences may involve a researcher revisiting painful memories through her interactions with participants. She may hold unconscious biases and preconceptions. If not exposed or addressed, this raises ethical implications and can negatively affect the reliability of the findings. Personally motivated research can be validated with the use of reflexivity. Often used in feminist methodology, it demands that the researcher examines her own feelings, reactions, and motives, and how these influence the interactions with participants, the analysis and findings. This essay shows how these philosophies behind reflexivity operate in practice. By reflexively aligning my own personal journey alongside birth mothers’ narrative, I was able to recognise and validate the role of myself in my research. This allowed me to face up to and challenge my biases and to avoid hierarchy that commonly exists between researcher and participants. For me this process went beyond simply being ethical practice, opening up opportunities for both creative and personal transformations.

dc.format.extent355-365
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.subjectCompulsory adoption
dc.subjectFeminist methodology
dc.subjectInsider research
dc.subjectPersonal experiences
dc.subjectReflexivity
dc.title"Using Reflexivity as a Tool to Validate Feminist Research Based on Personal Trauma"
dc.typejournal-article
dc.typeNote
dc.typeJournal
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plymouth.issue3
plymouth.volume30
plymouth.publication-statusPublished
plymouth.journalFeminist Legal Studies
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10691-022-09487-5
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business/School of Society and Culture
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA/UoA18 Law
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Users by role
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Users by role/Academics
dcterms.dateAccepted2022-01-18
dc.rights.embargodate2023-3-10
dc.identifier.eissn1572-8455
dc.rights.embargoperiodNot known
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1007/s10691-022-09487-5
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2022-03-10
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review


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