dc.contributor.author | Earle-Brown, H | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-05-10T09:54:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-11-26 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article introduces the method I am planning on using for my PhD research: rethinking the traditional
semi-structured interview by offering manicures to homeless women during conversation. There are several
aims to this approach including creating a more comfortable research environment; open up unexpected
conversations relating to the manicure; allow the participants to have autonomy over their body through
choosing, designing or refusing their manicure; and thanking the homeless women for their participation. At
face value, a manicure might seem like a strange, if not trivial thing to bring into a research environment.
However, as this article will argue, offering manicures to homeless women has the potential to not only
benefit the participants themselves, but to enrich the research process itself and the findings which
consequentially emerge.
This article argues that this approach aligns with both creative geographical approaches to research (which
allows the research to go in unexpected directions, often yielding interesting results) and feminist
approaches to research (which emphasise participant wellbeing, empowerment and an alleviation of power
relations). Together, this approach can contribute to more flexible and more ethical research, which is
useful when researching with vulnerable groups such as those experiencing homelessness | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 6, pp. 14 - 19 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.47967/jzdk3641 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/125596 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | South West Doctoral Training Partnership | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://www.theopenreview.com/volume-6-2020/ | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2020. Open access | en_GB |
dc.title | Painting the Nails of Homeless Women: Using Manicures as a Methodological Tool | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-05-10T09:54:28Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from The Open Review via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | The Open Review | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-11-26 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-05-10T09:52:46Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-05-10T09:54:50Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |