Thread by @CaitlinHafferty

Doing #qualitative research using #online methods? 🤔💻 I thought I'd share 10 papers/books which I've found really useful during my PhD - a thread! 🧵1/?

Feel free to add to the list! #PhD #research #PhDlife #phdvoice #phdchat #AcademicChatter #ResearchMethods #OnlineMethods

1⃣ 'Doing Qualitative Research Online' (2016) - includes ethical issues in research design; designing online qualitative studies; collecting qualitative data online through interviews & other methods; analysis & reporting findings.

➡️methods.sagepub.com/book/doing-qua… 2/?

2⃣ 'Qualitative data collection in an era of social distancing' (2020) - includes options & resources for researchers who need to alter their study designs from face-to-face qualitative data collection to a “socially distant” method.

➡️journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 3/?

3⃣ 'Using Zoom Videoconferencing for Qualitative Data Collection: Perceptions and Experiences of Researchers and Participants' (2019) - exploring both researcher and participant perspectives on the use of web and videoconferencing platforms.

➡️journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 4/?

4⃣ 'A COVID-19-era rapid review: using Zoom and Skype for qualitative group research' (2022) - how qualitative researchers can collect meaningful & representative data when constrained by cost, distance or unforeseen events.

➡️phrp.com.au/issues/june-20… 5/?

5⃣ 'Conducting Qualitative Research to Respond to COVID-19 Challenges: Reflections for the Present and Beyond' (2021) - considers challenges in the COVID-19 context, namely “time constraints” and “physical distancing”.

➡️journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 6/?

6⃣ 'Making room for zoom in focus group methods: opportunities and challenges for novice researchers (during and beyond COVID-19)' (2022) - reflections on the opportunities & challenges for using Zoom for qualitative focus groups.

➡️qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/ 7/?

7⃣ 'Expanding Qualitative Research Interviewing Strategies: Zoom Video Communications' (2020) - examining the specific attributes of Zoom that contribute to high quality & in-depth qualitative interviews when in person interviewing is not feasible.

➡️nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol25/iss5… 8/?

8⃣ 'Adapting Research Methodologies in the COVID-19 Pandemic' (2020) - collaborative online resource for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers whose work is being affected by the COVID-19 virus.

➡️earthlab.uw.edu/2020/07/adapti… 9/?

9⃣ 'Participatory Research Approaches in Times of Covid-19: A Narrative Literature Review' (2021) - provides an overview of current empirical & guidance literature on the use of participatory approaches within the context of Covid-19.

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🔟'‘At least in person there would have been a cup of tea’: interviewing via Skype' (2017) - consideration of researchers and participants not being able to share a range of senses (touch, smell and taste) during Skype interviews.

➡️rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… 11/?

I'm going over 10 recommendations now, but here are a few more...

'Intimacy, rapport, and exceptional disclosure: a comparison of in-person and mediated interview contexts' (2017) - comparing interview contexts with regard to rapport, suitability to sensitive topics, interview duration, and scheduling concerns.

➡️tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… 12/?

'When face-to-face interviews are not possible: tips and tricks for video, telephone, online chat, and email interviews in qualitative research' (2021) - the benefits and drawbacks of different techniques to carry out interviews.

➡️academic.oup.com/eurjcn/article… 13/?

'Participatory video from a distance: co-producing knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic using smartphones' (2021) - the strengths and weaknesses of using remove participatory video methods, including ethical considerations.

➡️journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14… 14/?

'The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings: A within-person field experiment.' (2021) - understanding how the camera impacts fatigue & outcomes during virtual meetings (e.g., participant voice and engagement).

➡️psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-77… 15/?

Another great paper: 'Taking deliberative research online: Lessons from four case studies' (2021) - considers the reasons for taking deliberation online, reporting on four case studies, and sets out key learnings.

➡️journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

'Doing fieldwork in a pandemic' (2020) - crowdsourced document which has been put together by researchers who have added a range of diverse ideas for doing fieldwork in a pandemic.

➡️docs.google.com/document/d/1cl…