Join the UGA Qualitative Research Program for the UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series.
Title: Queer(ing) (Dis)Comfort and Vulnerability in Qualitative Research
Presenter: Dr. Stephanie Anne Shelton, The University of Alabama
Date: Monday, November 6th from 12PM – 1PM EST
Where: Zoom
Register at: https://bit.ly/UGAQL05
Qualitative scholars often design research that invites participants to share their experiences and perspectives on personal and/or difficult topics. Throughout such projects, there is an understandable emphasis on “comfort”: Are the participants comfortable sharing? Does the research process make them uncomfortable? These are important considerations, but they are insufficient. This presentation takes up a queer (dis)comfort, which position discomfort and uncertainty as productive and even sought-after spaces through examples from and discussions of research projects in which commonplace engagements with (dis)comfort are elasticized and expanded to consider the degrees to which context shapes (dis)comfort and vulnerability, and the implications of stretching these concepts to include researchers’ needs and experiences.
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Rachel Berman, PhD (she/her/hers) Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies Chair, Professional Affairs Committee, TFA Toronto Metropolitan University (recently renamed), Tkaronto “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” Angela Davis
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