A reflection on a humanistic approach to narrative inquiry into the lived experience of women casual academics

Gail Crimmins

doi:10.1080/14623943.2016.1175342

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A reflection on a humanistic approach to narrative inquiry into the lived experience of women casual academics

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A reflection on a humanistic approach to narrative inquiry into the lived experience of women casual academics

Gail Crimmins

Reflective Practice, Vol.17(4), pp.483-494

2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2016.1175342

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self-reflexivity

narrative inquiry

embodied cognition

research flow

in-the-making research

Qualitative research is said to add flesh to the bones of quantitative data, and narrative inquiry, more specifically, is described as emotionally comforting, reassuring and validating for participants who share their stories. But little is said of the impact of the flesh, bone and emotions of the narrative inquirer on the qualitative research process. This paper explores a humanistic approach to a narrative inquiry into the lived experience of women casual academics in Australian universities, and exposes the emotional and embodied labour involved in researching others' stories. Through reflecting in and on her practice as a narrative inquirer, the author discusses how she was affectively and ideologically motivated to investigate the lives of women casual academics and demonstrates how her heart worked in conjunction with her head when 'handling' the narrative data. The author finally explores how reflecting on a humanistic approach to narrative research exposes that emotional and cognitive alignment can create research 'flow', and that fully embodied engagement with research aligns with 'slow' and feminist 'in-the-making' scholarship where journey and outcomes emerge and cannot be pre-determined.

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Title: A reflection on a humanistic approach to narrative inquiry into the lived experience of women casual academics
Authors: Gail Crimmins (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Publication details: Reflective Practice, Vol.17(4), pp.483-494
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2016
DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2016.1175342
ISSN: 1462-3943
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449851902621
Output Type: Journal article

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