Multiple researcher identities: Highlighting tensions and implications for ethical practice in qualitative interviewing

Qualitative Research in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 316-331

  Victoria, Lavis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethics; Feminism; Interviewing; Performing identities; Qualitative; Required identities; Researcher identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649576577     PISSN: 14780887     EISSN: 14780895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14780880902929506     Document Type: Article

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